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21 Jun 2016
2.6.5 Released
by Samuel Giddins
RubyGems 2.6.5 includes minor enhancements 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.
Minor enhancements:
- Support for unified Integer in Ruby 2.4. Pull request #1618 by SHIBATA Hiroshi.
- Update vendored Molinillo to 0.5.0 for performance improvements. Pull request #1638 by Samuel Giddins.
Bug fixes:
- Raise an explicit error if Signer#sign is called with no certs. Pull request #1605 by Daniel Berger.
- Update
update_bundled_ca_certificatesutility script for directory nesting. Pull request #1583 by James Wen. - Fix broken symlink support in tar writer (+ fix broken test). Pull request #1578 by Cezary Baginski.
- Remove extension directory before (re-)installing. Pull request #1576 by Jeremy Hinegardner.
- Regenerate test CA certificates with appropriate extensions. Pull request #1611 by rhenium.
- Rubygems does not terminate on failed file lock when not superuser. Pull request #1582 by Ellen Marie Dash.
- Fix tar headers with a 101 character name. Pull request #1612 by Paweł Tomulik.
- Add Gem.platform_defaults to allow implementations to override defaults. Pull request #1644 by Charles Oliver Nutter.
- Run Bundler tests on TravisCI. Pull request #1650 by Samuel Giddins.
SHA256 Checksums:
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