207 Rails 6.1 LTS Changelog

October 17th 2024, Rails version 6.1.7.20

• Fixed ReDoS vulnerabilities CVE-2024-41128, CVE-2024-47887, CVE-2024-47888, and CVE-2024-47889. Read the announcement Show archive.org snapshot .

Sep 18th, 2024: Version 6.1.7.19

• Reverted a dev-only bug fix breaking for users of older versions of the "listen" gem.

Sep 18th, 2024: Version 6.1.7.18

• Initial release of the LTS version of Rails 6.1.
• This is mostly identical to the latest official 6.1 release (6.1.7.8) plus some compatible and non-essential bug fixes.
• Supports Ruby 2.5, 2.7, 3.1 and 3.3
• Added monkey patches to address ReDoS vulnerabilities in the time stdlib on old Ruby versions (CVE-2023-28756), see here Show archive.org snapshot for more details (the uri changes can be solved by updating the "uri" gem)
• Bump dependencies on rack, trix and rails-html-sanitizer to versions without known security vulnerabilities.
• (Skipped 10 tiny versions to version .18 to stay ahead of any official 6.1.7.x community releases.)