RHEA-2014:0604 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

New ruby200 packages are now available as part of Red Hat Software Collections
1.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Description

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It
provides features to process text files and to do system management tasks.
RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third-party libraries.

This enhancement update adds the ruby200 packages to Red Hat Software
Collections 1.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The ruby200 packages include Ruby
2.0.0, which is the latest stable version of Ruby. It provides substantial
performance and reliability improvements, and a number of new features and
improved debugging capabilities, while maintaining source level backward
compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3. (BZ#1033078, BZ#1033906)

All users who require Ruby 2.0.0 are advised to install these new packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1039934 - Collection has to be installable as ruby200 dependencies
• BZ - 1043039 - ruby200-rubygem-rdoc should not touch system rdoc
• BZ - 1048827 - Split ruby200 scl into ruby200 and ror40 scls
• BZ - 1048923 - Backport regenerated certificates for IMAP tests [ruby200]
• BZ - 1054245 - Rebuild ruby200-runtime on RHEL7 (uucp ownership issue)
• BZ - 1054758 - ruby-libs have to require scl_runtime

CVEs

(none)

References

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