[webstack-discuss] [sfwnv-discuss] Code review for Ruby patch update(CR 6721879)

[Steven M. Christensen]

Just out of curiosity, why did you choose to update to 1.8.6-p230 
instead of the most recent stable release 1.8.7-p22?   The ruby site 
says about 1.8.7 -

The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature 
enhancements back ported from 1.9 and some performance improvements 
since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with 
the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for 
details about compatibility issues.


The ChangeLog is at

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_7/ChangeLog

The Dos related patches are included in this 1.8.7 version as well.

Steve Christensen

Prashant Srinivasan wrote:
> [setting Reply-to to webstack-discuss]
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> Can someone review this patch from the upstream community?  It updates 
> Ruby to 1.8.6-p230.  Importantly it houses a fix for a reported Security 
> vulnerability.
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>  http://cr.opensolaris.org/~psriniva/webrev-6721879-v2/
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> Thanks,
>  -ps
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