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01 Nov 2017

2.7.0 Released

by Samuel Giddins

RubyGems 2.7.0 includes major enhancements, minor enhancements, compatibility changes and bug fixes.

To update to the latest RubyGems you can run:

gem update --system

If you need to upgrade or downgrade please follow the how to upgrade/downgrade RubyGems instructions. To install RubyGems by hand see the Download RubyGems page.

Major enhancements:

  • Update vendored bundler-1.16.0. Pull request #2051 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Use Bundler for Gem.use_gemdeps. Pull request #1674 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Add command signin to gem CLI. Pull request #1944 by Shiva Bhusal.
  • Add Logout feature to CLI. Pull request #1938 by Shiva Bhusal.

Minor enhancements:

  • Added message to uninstall command for gem that is not installed. Pull request #1979 by anant anil kolvankar.
  • Add –trust-policy option to unpack command. Pull request #1718 by Nobuyoshi Nakada.
  • Show default gems for all platforms. Pull request #1685 by Konstantin Shabanov.
  • Add Travis and Appveyor build status to README. Pull request #1918 by Jun Aruga.
  • Remove warning no email specified when no email. Pull request #1675 by Leigh McCulloch.
  • Improve -rubygems performance. Pull request #1801 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Improve the performance of Kernel#require. Pull request #1678 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Improve user-facing messages by consistent casing of Ruby/RubyGems. Pull request #1771 by John Labovitz.
  • Improve error message when Gem::RuntimeRequirementNotMetError is raised. Pull request #1789 by Luis Sagastume.
  • Code Improvement: Inheritance corrected. Pull request #1942 by Shiva Bhusal.
  • [Source] Autoload fileutils. Pull request #1906 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Use Hash#fetch instead of if/else in Gem::ConfigFile. Pull request #1824 by Daniel Berger.
  • Require digest when it is used. Pull request #2006 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Do not index the doc folder in the update_manifest task. Pull request #2031 by Colby Swandale.
  • Don’t use two postfix conditionals on one line. Pull request #2038 by Ellen Marie Dash.
  • [SafeYAML] Avoid warning when Gem::Deprecate.skip is set. Pull request #2034 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Update gem yank description. Pull request #2009 by David Radcliffe.
  • Fix formatting of installation instructions in README. Pull request #2018 by Jordan Danford.
  • Do not use #quick_spec internally. Pull request #1733 by Jon Moss.
  • Switch from docs to guides reference. Pull request #1886 by Jonathan Claudius.
  • Happier message when latest version is already installed. Pull request #1956 by Jared Beck.
  • Update specification reference docs. Pull request #1960 by Grey Baker.
  • Allow Gem.finish_resolve to respect already-activated specs. Pull request #1910 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Update cryptography for Gem::Security. Pull request #1691 by Sylvain Daubert.
  • Don’t output mkmf.log message if compilation didn’t fail. Pull request #1808 by Jeremy Evans.
  • Matches_for_glob - remove root path. Pull request #2010 by ahorek.
  • Gem::Resolver#search_for update for reliable searching/sorting. Pull request #1993 by MSP-Greg.
  • Allow local installs with transitive prerelease requirements. Pull request #1990 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Small style fixes to Installer Set. Pull request #1985 by Arthur Marzinkovskiy.
  • Setup cmd: Avoid terminating option string w/ dot. Pull request #1825 by Olle Jonsson.
  • Warn when no files are set. Pull request #1773 by Aidan Coyle.
  • Ensure to_spec falls back on prerelease specs. Pull request #1755 by André Arko.
  • [Specification] Eval setting default attributes in #initialize. Pull request #1739 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Sort ordering of sources is preserved. Pull request #1633 by Nathan Ladd.
  • Retry with :prerelease when no suggestions are found. Pull request #1696 by Aditya Prakash.
  • [Rakefile] Run git submodule update --init in rake newb. Pull request #1694 by Samuel Giddins.
  • [TestCase] Address comments around ui changes. Pull request #1677 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Eagerly resolve in activate_bin_path. Pull request #1666 by Samuel Giddins.
  • [Version] Make hash based upon canonical segments. Pull request #1659 by Samuel Giddins.

Compatibility changes:

  • Use -rrubygems instead of -rubygems.rb. Because ubygems.rb is unavailable on Ruby 2.5. Pull request #2028 #2027 #2029 by SHIBATA Hiroshi.
  • Deprecate Gem::InstallerTestCase#util_gem_bindir and Gem::InstallerTestCase#util_gem_dir. Pull request #1729 by Jon Moss.
  • Deprecate passing options to Gem::GemRunner. Pull request #1730 by Jon Moss.
  • Add deprecation for Gem#datadir. Pull request #1732 by Jon Moss.
  • Add deprecation warning for Gem::DependencyInstaller#gems_to_install. Pull request #1731 by Jon Moss.
  • Update Code of Conduct to Contributor Covenant v1.4.0. Pull request #1796 by Matej.
  • Add Ruby Together CTA, rearrange README a bit. Pull request #1775 by Michael Bernstein.
  • Update Contributing.rdoc with new label usage. Pull request #1716 by Lynn Cyrin.
  • Add –host sample to help. Pull request #1709 by Code Ahss.
  • Add a helpful suggestion when gem install fails due to required_rub…. Pull request #1697 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Add cert expiration length flag. Pull request #1725 by Luis Sagastume.
  • Add submodule instructions to manual install. Pull request #1727 by Joseph Frazier.
  • Allow usage of multiple --version operators. Pull request #1546 by James Wen.
  • Warn when requiring deprecated files. Pull request #1939 by Ellen Marie Dash.

Bug fixes:

  • Fix issue for MinGW / MSYS2 builds and testing. Pull request #1876 by MSP-Greg.
  • Fixed broken links and overzealous URL encoding in gem server. Pull request #1809 by Nicole Orchard.
  • Fix a typo. Pull request #1722 by Koichi ITO.
  • Fix error message Gem::Security::Policy. Pull request #1724 by Nobuyoshi Nakada.
  • Fixing links markdown formatting in README. Pull request #1791 by Piotr Kuczynski.
  • Fix failing Bundler 1.8.7 CI builds. Pull request #1820 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Fixed test broken on ruby-head . Pull request #1842 by SHIBATA Hiroshi.
  • Fix typos with misspell. Pull request #1846 by SHIBATA Hiroshi.
  • Fix gem open to open highest version number rather than lowest. Pull request #1877 by Tim Pope.
  • Fix test_self_find_files_with_gemfile to sort expected files. Pull request #1878 by Kazuaki Matsuo.
  • Fix typos in CONTRIBUTING.rdoc. Pull request #1909 by Mark Sayson.
  • Fix some small documentation issues in installer. Pull request #1972 by Colby Swandale.
  • Fix links in Policies document. Pull request #1964 by Alyssa Ross.
  • Fix NoMethodError on bundler/inline environment. Pull request #2042 by SHIBATA Hiroshi.
  • Correct comments for Gem::InstallerTestCase#setup. Pull request #1741 by MSP-Greg.
  • Use File.expand_path for certification and key location. Pull request #1987 by SHIBATA Hiroshi.
  • Rescue EROFS. Pull request #1417 by Nobuyoshi Nakada.
  • Fix spelling of ‘vulnerability’. Pull request #2022 by Philip Arndt.
  • Fix metadata link key names. Pull request #1896 by Aditya Prakash.
  • Fix a typo in uninstall_command.rb. Pull request #1934 by Yasuhiro Horimoto.
  • Gem::Requirement.create treat arguments as variable-length. Pull request #1830 by Toru YAGI.
  • Display an explanation when rake encounters an ontological problem. Pull request #1982 by Wilson Bilkovich.
  • [Server] Handle gems with names ending in -\d. Pull request #1926 by Samuel Giddins.
  • [InstallerSet] Avoid reloading all local gems multiple times during dependency resolution. Pull request #1925 by Samuel Giddins.
  • Modify the return value of Gem::Version.correct?. Pull request #1916 by Tsukuru Tanimichi.
  • Validate metadata link keys. Pull request #1834 by Aditya Prakash.
  • Add changelog to metadata validation. Pull request #1885 by Aditya Prakash.
  • Replace socket error text message. Pull request #1823 by Daniel Berger.
  • Raise error if the email is invalid when building cert. Pull request #1779 by Luis Sagastume.
  • [StubSpecification] Don’t iterate through all loaded specs in #to_spec. Pull request #1738 by Samuel Giddins.

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