[Puppet Users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

Jo Rhett
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:30:50 -0000

On Nov 9, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> Ruby 1.87 support
> Foreman 0.4 would be the last major version supporting Ruby older then
1.87.
> This has to be done since the upstream rails community no longer
> supports older versions, which means that critical security patches
> are no longer available if we keep supporting that.
>
> if required, we would release 0.4.x maintenance releases, but since
> ruby 1.87+ is available on most distribution these days, you are
> encouraged to upgrade.


No distribution based on RHEL5 has a supported version of ruby other than 1.85
AFAIK.  It''s pretty much a roll-your-own-RPM for 1.87, and
that''s not possible for most sites.

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