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09 Nov 2021
October 2021 RubyGems Updates
by Gift Egwuenu
Welcome to the RubyGems monthly update! As part of our efforts at Ruby Together, we publish a recap of the work that we’ve done the previous month. Read on to find out what updates were made to RubyGems and RubyGems.org in October.
RubyGems News
In October, we released new versions of RubyGems: 3.2.29, 3.2.30 and Bundler: 2.2.29, 2.2.30.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of the improvements included in the above releases (see changelogs for more details):
- made gem install noticeably faster on Windows - #4960.
- made
bundle installautomatically reinstall deleted gems even when the lockfile is up to date - #4974. - fixed an issue where lockfile checks were making Bundler crash - #4941.
- improved some errors when
bundle installcrashes due to permission issues, and also when gem tasks fail to run gem commands under the hood - #4965. - added a couple of load improvements, like using
require_relativein more places - #4978, and avoiding activating the digest gem from RubyGems - #4979.
This month, RubyGems gained 133 new commits, contributed by 16 authors. There were 27,317 additions and 82,207 deletions across 2,572 files.
RubyGems.org News
This month, RubyGems.org saw several bug fixes and updates, some of which include the following:
- updated and released MFA requirement opt-in - #2242.
- wrote a guide for MFA requirement opt-in feature - #297.
- debugged memory leaks after update to Ruby 3 was made, and reverted update - #2843.
- fixed race condition between version file update and version release - #2811.
- fixed broken transitive dependencies page for non-ruby platform versions - #2816.
- responded to pager calls for the database being overloaded by bot traffic and updated UI rate limit - #2835.
In October, RubyGems.org gained 49 new commits, contributed by 7 authors. There were 873 additions and 120 deletions across 61 files.
As always, we continue to fix bugs, review and merge PR’s and reply to support tickets.
Learn more about contributing to RubyGems by visiting the RubyGems Contributing Guide. We welcome all kinds of contributions, including bug fixes, feature implementation, writing and updating documentation, and bug triage.