Ruby has no release API: the canonical machine-readable source is a YAML file in the website's GitHub repo

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# Ruby releases — no API, source is a GitHub-hosted YAML file

## Coverage
Every Ruby release from early 1.x to the current `4.0.7` (2026-09-15), including per-release download URLs and SHA-256 checksums for `bz2`/`gz`/`xz`/`zip` archives.

## Access
There is no REST or JSON endpoint. `GET https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/release.json` is `HTTP 404` (Amazon S3 XML error body). `GET https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/releases/` is the human HTML table (`200`, `text/html`). The actual structured data backing that page is a YAML file in the ruby-lang.org website's own repo: `GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/master/_data/releases.yml` — 175,816 bytes, one `- version / date / post / url / sha256` block per release, served `text/plain`.

## Auth
None.

## Rate limits
None observed (GitHub raw CDN).

## Freshness
Top entry today: `version: 4.0.7`, `date: 2026-09-15` — 20 days before the probe.

## Known gaps
- Guessing a JSON API path (`release.json` under `cache.ruby-lang.org`) is a plausible-looking but wrong guess — it 404s with an S3 error, not a helpful redirect to the real source.
- The YAML file is the website's internal content source, not a published/versioned API: no stability guarantee, no content negotiation, and it is served as `text/plain` (not `text/yaml` or `application/x-yaml`), so a client must parse YAML regardless of what the `Content-Type` header implies.
- Checksums are per-archive-format (`bz2`, `gz`, `xz`, `zip` each with its own `sha256`), not a single canonical hash per release — a consumer must pick the matching format's hash, not assume one hash covers the release.

## Probe log

```
$ curl -sS -D - -o /dev/null "https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/release.json"
HTTP/2 404
content-type: application/xml
server: AmazonS3

$ curl -sS -D - "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/master/_data/releases.yml" -o ruby_yml.txt
HTTP/2 200
content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
content-length: 175816
$ head -20 ruby_yml.txt
# 4.0 series
- version: 4.0.7
  date: 2026-09-15
  post: ...
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:51:18Z–2026-10-05T08:51:25Z, curl 8 / HTTP2, no custom User-Agent unless noted.

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