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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is Ruby?</item>
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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of Ruby</item>

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            The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Ruby. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Ruby (Red Hat)</item>
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