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February 2022 RubyGems Updates

Welcome to the RubyGems monthly update! As part of our efforts at Ruby Central, 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 February.

RubyGems News

This month in RubyGems, we released new versions for RubyGems 3.3.7, 3.3.8 and Bundler 2.3.7, 2.3.8.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of the improvements included in the above releases (see changelogs for further information):

  • resolved some long-standing issues with our CI workflow and worked on some long-standing configuration issues - #5324.
  • fixed an issue with a corrupt lockfile that occured when running bundle check and re-resolving locally - #5344.
  • fixed a typo in the multiple gemfiles warning - #5342.
  • added clarification for bundle-config "with" option - #5346.
  • fixed an issue with BUNDLE_WITH and BUNDLE_WITHOUT environment variables being silently persisted locally - #5335.
  • bundle config now saves configuration locally by default when run inside an application context - #4512.

In February, Rubygems gained 45 new commits, contributed by 9 authors. There were 252 additions and 160 deletions across 58 files.

RubyGems.org News

This month, RubyGems.org saw several bug fixes and updates, some of which include the following:

  • enabled Rails 6.1 default in application.rb - #2966.
  • disabled mfa_required_since usage - #2965.
  • fixed Rubocop warning by re-enabling Ruby and excluding some files - #2955.

In February, Rubygems.org gained 60 new commits, contributed by 6 authors. There were 350 additions and 208 deletions across 28 files.


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