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Security release for main - #667

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* Externref results may be stale references
  [GHSA-c9f2-f4vx-xq68](GHSA-c9f2-f4vx-xq68)
* Data race in WASI when calling functions with `gvl: false`
  [GHSA-76hq-g43j-f2rr](GHSA-76hq-g43j-f2rr)

Co-authored-by: Jeff Charles <jeff.charles@shopify.com>
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saulecabrera enabled auto-merge (squash) October 26, 2026 14:52
On Ruby 3.3, `GC.verify_compaction_references(double_heap: true)` doubles
the number of heap pages on every call and never releases them. The
externref lifetime specs call it in almost every example, so the heap
grew exponentially and the process was OOM-killed in CI (and took the
runner down with it).

`expand_heap: true` only adds the pages needed to move every live
object, which is what Ruby 3.4+ already does for `double_heap`, and is
the replacement the deprecation warning asks for.
… writes

The "releases values from failed global writes, table writes and table
growth" example is flaky and needs more investigation. Skip it for now;
the test is kept so it can be re-enabled.
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saulecabrera force-pushed the security-release-main branch from 3c41e57 to 3eadf31 Compare October 26, 2026 17:05
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saulecabrera merged commit 02d27c0 into bytecodealliance:main Oct 26, 2026
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