Ruby 1.8 and Python 2.5 / 2.6 no longer supported

As of today, we’re officially no longer supporting the very old Ruby 1.8, Python 2.5 and Python 2.6 programs on our servers. They’ll soon be removed from our servers entirely. (Ruby and Python are scripting languages; if you don’t know what they are, your site is unlikely to affected by this and you can ignore it.)

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Ruby on Rails 2.2.3

We’ve updated the default version of Ruby on Rails on our servers to version 2.2.3.

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Tip for users of Rails 1.1.6 and earlier

If you have a Ruby on Rails application that originally used Rails 1.1.6 or earlier, you might have trouble after yesterday’s Rails update (which also updated several other Ruby “gems”, including the “RubyGems” gem itself).

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Ruby on Rails updated to version 2.1.1

We’ve updated the default version of Ruby on Rails on our servers to version 2.1.1.

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Ruby on Rails updated to 2.1.0

We’ve updated the default version of Ruby on Rails on our servers to version 2.1.0.

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Rails 2 update coming soon

A heads-up if you use Ruby on Rails: We’re going to be upgrading the default version on our servers to 2.0.2 soon. We want to give you plenty of notice, because when we tried upgrading some older test applications, they didn’t work without changes.

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Software updates: Ruby on Rails, phpMyAdmin, WordPress

We’ve updated several things on our servers today:

  • Ruby on Rails was updated from version 1.2.3 to 1.2.6. (If you use Rails on your site, our page explaining how to freeze Rails explains how you can get total control of Rails updates.)
  • phpMyAdmin was updated from version 2.11.2.1 to 2.11.2.2.
  • The WordPress software that runs this blog was updated to version 2.3.1. That doesn’t directly affect our customers — but if you’ve installed your own version of WordPress on your own site, this is a good reminder to update it: some older versions have security vulnerabilities. (We found that the update from 2.2.X to 2.3.1 was painless.)

Ruby on Rails updated to version 1.2.3

We’ve updated the default version of Ruby on Rails on our servers to version 1.2.3.

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