Both Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 have been updated with patches. Here's the announcments: Hi all, I am pleased to announce that the first bug fix release for Ruby 1.8.6 has been released. This release includes some fixes made upon Ruby 1.8.6, the latest stable release. The source code tarballs are available in several formats at the following locations: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p36.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p36.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p36.zip Checksums: MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p36.tar.gz)= 2a252394ecdcbcb3a55732efd9d38e27 SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p36.tar.gz)= 1a9db5f4720a7023d9ecfaa6c4128ecb5f8cd59460744fb4b5f3b64ed3786935 SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p36.tar.gz)= 4535005 MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p36.tar.bz2)= eb7f25818cb6993839b38d1f21bd4ea1 SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p36.tar.bz2)= a9b9715235580e1ba9248aeef5f9a8d329824b04d1b0af2a30ab74d3123c801c SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p36.tar.bz2)= 3905975 MD5(ruby-1.8.6-p36.zip)= 9ba29d5f1de37a49f89f280d94aea67d SHA256(ruby-1.8.6-p36.zip)= b9d8945d6207db2a15991d874ce93320fe2565225a2b219cab8c56ffb3d8d834 SIZE(ruby-1.8.6-p36.zip)= 5544539 I'm sorry we have not yet written a errata document for 1.8.6 release. Please refer following document to see the list of issues fixed. http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_6_36/ChangeLog Enjoy! Hi all, I am pleased to announce that a new version for Ruby 1.8.5 has been released. This release is the counterpart for 1.8.6-p36, backports from newer releases are included. The source code tarballs are available in several formats at the following locations: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-p52.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-p52.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-p52.zip Checksums: MD5(ruby-1.8.5-p52.tar.gz)= 8864064e98fa1b5d4ec53b25294bd288 SHA256(ruby-1.8.5-p52.tar.gz)= 2acae0140647c60d1369557fb984e81f553ffffd7bdfec064015094c511bb950 SIZE(ruby-1.8.5-p52.tar.gz)= 4476901 MD5(ruby-1.8.5-p52.tar.bz2)= bc19ddcca90a54692306b45c43f8e1a9 SHA256(ruby-1.8.5-p52.tar.bz2)= 17e4bde8e6fc93866774e66c556fe581104f5cdf162a07430a9e976e46915500 SIZE(ruby-1.8.5-p52.tar.bz2)= 3857426 MD5(ruby-1.8.5-p52.zip)= 1fd45d84805b314701e5d2b09c7da5ae SHA256(ruby-1.8.5-p52.zip)= 3d146463a83fd2fb60b3f5724334191a547e69cbdfe65d2e307d3a83bb8d1e0f SIZE(ruby-1.8.5-p52.zip)= 5480414 Please enjoy.
1.8.6_p36 is now in cvs, thanks for reporting.