Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

[Yasuhiro Kimura]

From: "Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:37:29 +0000

> Hello all,
> 
> As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here at my place of work.  Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6 which EOL about 18 months ago?
> 
> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/
> 
> I'm concerned about proliferation of EOL versions of Ruby in case some security risk / 0Day is identified.
> 
> Please advise.
> Eric Hendrickson

On my environment version of Ruby is 3.2.2.

(Cygwin64)yasu@rolling[1005]% uname -a                                                                                      ~
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-22621 rolling 3.4.9-1.x86_64 2023-09-06 11:19 UTC x86_64 Cygwin
(Cygwin64)yasu@rolling[1006]% type ruby                                                                                     ~
ruby is /usr/bin/ruby
(Cygwin64)yasu@rolling[1007]% ruby --version                                                                                ~
ruby 3.2.2 (2023-03-30 revision e51014f9c0) [x86_64-cygwin]
(Cygwin64)yasu@rolling[1008]%

I use https://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/cygwin as download site and there are
surely ruby-3.2.2-2.hint, ruby-3.2.2-2.tar.xz, ruby-3.2.2-2-src.hint
and ruby-3.2.2-2-src.tar.xz under
https://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/cygwin/x86_64/release/ruby/.

So I guess download site you use is out of sync.

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Yasuhiro Kimura