Open Source

In this episode, we look at creating an entire infrastructure (proxy, load balancer, app servers, worker servers, database server, and a storage server) on our own hardware use Kamal to provision and deploy our Ruby on Rails application. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/kamal-kitchen-sink

The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 9.4.9.0.

• Homepage: https://www.jruby.org/
• Download: https://www.jruby.org/download

JRuby 9.4.x targets Ruby 3.1 compatibility.

Thank you to our contributors this release, you help keep JRuby moving forward! @kares, @jpcamara, @jsvd

Ruby Compatibility

• Various fixes for keyword arguments. #8344, #8344, #8382, #8389
• Mutex has been fixed to check for thread interrupts (Thread#kill, Thread#raise) immediately after acquiring the lock. #8403, #8404

Standard Library

• The fiddle library is now a default gem and can be upgraded independently of JRuby. #8385

Developer Experience

• The core jar file of JRuby can be rebuilt more quickly by calling Maven with the -Dcore flag. #8326
• Support for Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (OpenJDK Project CRaC), which allows snapshotting a running JRuby process and quickly resuming it later. #8367

Java Integration

• The “lazy” constants feature for classes imported from Java, introduced in JRuby 9.4.8.0, has been reverted due to spurious warnings. We’ll revisit it in a future release. #8349, #8368, #8399, #8400, #8401
• Functions were added to allow flushing out thread-local and fiber-local storage for an entire JRuby runtime. #8369

Security

• REXML was updated to 3.3.9 to get recent fixes and to address CVE-2024-49761, a ReDOS vulnerability. Only users parsing unsanitized XML with REXML are affected. #8396

Ruby 3.3.6 has been released.

This is a routine update that includes minor bug fixes.
It also stops warning missing default gem dependencies that will be bundled gems in Ruby 3.5.
For more details, please refer to the release notes on GitHub.

Release Schedule

As previously announced, we intend to release the latest stable Ruby version (currently Ruby 3.3) every 2 months following a .1 release.

We expect to release Ruby 3.3.7 on January 7th. If any significant changes arise that impact a large number of users, we may release a new version earlier than scheduled.

Download

• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.3/ruby-3.3.6.tar.gz

  SIZE: 22153657
  SHA1: 0106171cd1801fb5663e8e709f3d6c935d683c9b
  SHA256: 8dc48fffaf270f86f1019053f28e51e4da4cce32a36760a0603a9aee67d7fd8d
  SHA512: 4ae22f5c2a1f7ed84aab7587ff04ce4d9933cffe4347deaef0ab88d22c9780f274c1664a4ee1dd8235bc3cc749be828ffa8db7cb5f5002339a59a599acf3c729
  

• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.3/ruby-3.3.6.tar.xz

  SIZE: 16398228
  SHA1: 25391e9bd8547cd07e09afcfc472777520a3178a
  SHA256: 540975969d1af42190d26ff629bc93b1c3f4bffff4ab253e245e125085e66266
  SHA512: c4b86188bf539fa737932e1ba5b746bc295e7c43b2f8cca2668eb7c88aa7228e2ce9032bbcd244a7d558a11bc842445b5fbeac3503ca7d223b63c53e08dba4ab
  

• https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.3/ruby-3.3.6.zip

  SIZE: 27048656
  SHA1: 88239456249cd80cadd1cbf98a317ae700ccd9df
  SHA256: a60240a6f9bcc8db6c07d40ad29c7dceb21430debe3ebc39bf339207818132f6
  SHA512: c010c7d3e2b373b41a18bcadfb6dba276afabe479d75624569b5bdc605f3575bced2aff511708e25ceca43c7c918400222329e55e599c54154f203957f119ad2
  

Release Comment

Many committers, developers, and users who provided bug reports helped us make this release.
Thanks for their contributions.

Posted by k0kubun on 5 Nov 2024

NetBSD is an open-source, Unix-like operating system known for its portability, lightweight design, and robustness across a wide array of hardware platforms. Initially released in 1993, NetBSD was one of the first open-source operating systems based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) lineage, alongside FreeBSD and OpenBSD. NetBSD’s development has been led by a collaborative community and is particularly recognized for its “clean” and well-documented codebase, a factor that has made it a popular choice among users interested in systems programming and cross-platform compatibility. ↫ André Machado I’m not really sure what to make of this article, since it mostly reads like an advertisement for NetBSD, but considering NetBSD is one of the lesser-talked about variants of an operating system family that already sadly plays second fiddle to the Linux behemoth, I don’t think giving it some additional attention is really hurting anybody. The article is still gives a solid overview of the history and strengths of NetBSD, which makes it a good introduction. I have personally never tried NetBSD, but it’s on my list of systems to try out on my PA-RISC workstation since from what I’ve heard it’s the only BSD which can possibly load up X11 on the Visualize FX10pro graphics card it has (OpenBSD can only boot to a console on this GPU). While I could probably coax some cobbled-together Linux installation into booting X11 on it, where’s the fun in that? Do any of you lovely readers use NetBSD for anything? FreeBSD and even OpenBSD are quite well represented as general purpose operating systems in the kinds of circles we all frequent, but I rarely hear about people using NetBSD other than explicitly because it supports some outdated, arcane architecture in 2024.