Hi everybody! Rails 3.0.6 has been released!

Let’s get the serious business out of the way first:

Rails 3.0.6 contains an important security fix! Please upgrade!

Rails versions 3.0.x prior to 3.0.6 contain an XSS vulnerability. The vulnerability manifests itself via the auto_link method. The auto_link method will automatically mark input strings as “html safe” even if the input is from an unknown origin.

For example:

<%= auto_link(params[:content]) %>

If the “content” parameter contains malicious javascript, that script will be rendered without being escaped.

How can I protect myself?

• Upgrade to Rails 3.0.6, then content passed to auto_link will be automatically escaped for you.

• If you cannot upgrade Rails, then apply the patch found here. Then auto_link content will be escaped for you.

• If you cannot upgrade Rails, or apply the patch, then change your calls to auto_link to call sanitize like so:

  <%= sanitize(auto_link(params[:content])) %>

  If you trust the input, then change to this

  <%= raw(auto_link(params[:content])) %>

Credits

Thanks go to Torben Schulz for reporting this issue!

SERIOUS BUSINESS COMPLETE

After two release candidates, we we we so excited to announce the release of Rails version 3.0.6! I want to thank everyone that tried out the release candidates and reported their feedback! I hope that we can continue soliciting feedback from the public before releasing final versions.

LOL CHANGES!!!!

For changes in a particular package, please view the CHANGELOG in each particular project on github. Even better, you can check the compare view.

Changes of note are:

• The above security fix in ActionPack 61ee3449674c591747db95f9b3472c5c3bd9e84d

• Un-deprecating the reorder method in ActiveRecord 235a4142aa3fee73faa0f01e267a2b4254cea8ce

• A backport of “cheaper attributes reads” in ActiveRecord 86acbf1cc050c8fa8c74a10c735e467fb6fd7df8

• Correctling handling before_type_cast on timezone aware attributes 0823bbd757f3654a08d300e27873758da606f06a

• Escaping binary data in sqlite3 inserts 7222786c15eacbd432b2bce9798d3f3459f7e05f

• Fixing schema support for the mysql adapter eb1eac93151c1d45c3ef292d99bfcf74799185ea

This change list IS NOT exhaustive. They are just some of my favorites! For the complete list please see the CHANGELOG files or view the diff on github.

GEM CHECKSUMS

If you totally want to make sure that you’ve got the right gems, here are my shasums before I pushed the gems!

shasum *

• fc7b0503bdf99d1ec08dc0dcee3677ca1dd29f0f actionmailer-3.0.6.gem
• e8fbefd5b0a46408dd557331700ea514a4c199ab actionpack-3.0.6.gem
• 8509520744ecd8e6712158311a16ba4782b454e2 activemodel-3.0.6.gem
• 3b392e811ba342a5bf430d89cf4f060d119aba64 activerecord-3.0.6.gem
• 9eea440bdf885e857ebfb5ff8e31119f76a18a4e activeresource-3.0.6.gem
• 175ba6286f7802edeeaab30f900d87a38f516728 activesupport-3.0.6.gem
• ebeea3c1f03db3309ea9a6640e1767ab144ff567 rails-3.0.6.gem
• 61e24f94ea87fc58175b2067f7f6a3a8c468bfe0 railties-3.0.6.gem

IN CLOSING

Thank you for waiting for me to finish vacation before I released this! I hope that everyone enjoys this bugfix release of Rails. Next time I’ll try not to vacation so much! ;-)

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