Ruby: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Ruby from Ruby Community

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-09

What is Ruby?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementRuby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.Ruby is dynamically typed and uses garbage collection and just-in-time compilation. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming. According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC, and Lisp.
 

The entire lifecycle of Ruby

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.
Ruby (Ruby Community) release, version and end-of-life information
XRuby (Ruby Community) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Ruby (Ruby Community)
 

Facts and figures about Ruby

Product
Ruby
Vendor
Ruby Community
Latest version
3.4.8
Number of releases
15
Number of versions
168
Number of unstable versions
49
Number of versions affected by CVE
78
Licence
Ruby License
Licence details
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_License
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)
 
 

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