On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 09:17:31PM -0700, Jeremy Evans wrote:
> These are the latest releases of Ruby 4.0 and 3.4. The 4.0.9 release is
> the same as the 4.0.8 release with security fixes for CVE-2026-89078,
> CVE-2026-93577, CVE-2026-97229 and CVE-2026-110264. Ruby 3.4.12 has the
> same security fixes. Note that these fixes protect against cases where
> untrusted input is used to create Regexp objects, which is just asking
> for trouble IMO.
> 
> Release announcements:
> 4.0.9: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/10/23/ruby-4-0-9-released/
> 3.4.12: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/10/23/ruby-3-4-12-released/
> 
> Ruby 3.3.13 was also released today, but since it was just sent to the
> Attic, no patch for it.
> 
> Tested on amd64. Will be committing in a couple days unless I hear
> objections.

Given that these were the underlying cause for this week's gitlab RCE,
I'm not sure there's a good reason for waiting. I'd prefer if you just
went ahead.

ok tb

Backports would seem appropriate. Should we update 3.3 in stable as well?

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