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Last month, the team at Ruby announced that support for Ruby 2.3 series has ended. Security and bug fixes from the recent Ruby versions won’t be backported to Ruby 2.3. As there won’t be any patches of 2.3, the Ruby team has recommended users to upgrade to Ruby 2.6 or 2.5 as soon as possible.

Currently supported Ruby versions

Ruby 2.6 series

Ruby 2.6 series is currently in the normal maintenance phase. The team will backport bug fixes and will release an urgent fix for it in case of urgent security issue/bug.

Ruby 2.5 series

Ruby 2.5 series is currently in the normal maintenance phase. The team will backport bug fixes and will release an urgent fix for it in case of urgent security issue/bug.

Ruby 2.4 series

Ruby 2.4 series is currently in security maintenance phase. The team won’t backport any bug fixes to 2.4 except for security fixes. The team will release an urgent fix for it in case of urgent security issue/bug. The team is also planning to end the support for Ruby 2.4 series by March 31, 2020.

To know more about this news, check out the post by Ruby.

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