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15 Dec 2023

3.5.0 Released

by David Rodríguez

RubyGems 3.5.0 includes security, breaking changes, deprecations, features, performance, enhancements, bug fixes and documentation.

To update to the latest RubyGems you can run:

gem update --system

To install RubyGems by hand see the Download RubyGems page.

## Security:

  • Replace Marshal.load with a fully-checked safe gemspec loader. Pull request #6896 by segiddins

## Breaking changes:

  • Drop ruby 2.6 and 2.7 support. Pull request #7116 by deivid-rodriguez
  • Release package no longer includes test files. Pull request #6781 by hsbt
  • Hide Gem::MockGemUi from users. Pull request #6623 by hsbt
  • Deprecated Gem.datadir has been removed. Pull request #6469 by hsbt

## Deprecations:

  • Deprecate Gem::Platform.match?. Pull request #6783 by hsbt
  • Deprecate Gem::List. Pull request #6311 by segiddins

## Features:

  • The generate_index command can now generate compact index files and lives as an external rubygems-generate_index gem. Pull request #7085 by segiddins
  • Make gem install fallback to user installation directory if default gem home is not writable. Pull request #5327 by duckinator
  • Leverage ruby feature to warn when requiring default gems from stdlib that will be turned into bundled gems in the future. Pull request #6840 by hsbt

## Performance:

  • Use match? when regexp match data is unused. Pull request #7263 by segiddins
  • Fewer allocations in gem installation. Pull request #6975 by segiddins
  • Optimize allocations in Gem::Version. Pull request #6970 by segiddins

## Enhancements:

  • Warn for duplicate meta data links when building gems. Pull request #7213 by etherbob
  • Vendor net-http, net-protocol, resolv, and timeout to reduce conflicts between Gemfile gems and internal dependencies. Pull request #6793 by deivid-rodriguez
  • Remove non-transparent requirement added to prerelease gems. Pull request #7226 by deivid-rodriguez
  • Stream output from ext builds when –verbose. Pull request #7240 by osyoyu
  • Add missing services to CI detection and make it consistent between RubyGems and Bundler. Pull request #7205 by nevinera
  • Update generate licenses template to not freeze regexps. Pull request #7154 by github-actions[bot]
  • Don’t check LIBRUBY_RELATIVE in truffleruby to signal a bash prelude in rubygems binstubs. Pull request #7156 by deivid-rodriguez
  • Update SPDX list and warn on deprecated identifiers. Pull request #6926 by simi
  • Simplify extended require to potentially fix some deadlocks. Pull request #6827 by nobu
  • Small refactors for Gem::Resolver. Pull request #6766 by hsbt
  • Use double-quotes instead of single-quotes consistently in warnings. Pull request #6550 by hsbt
  • Add debug message for nil version gemspec. Pull request #6436 by hsbt
  • Installs bundler 2.5.0 as a default gem.

## Bug fixes:

  • Fix installing from source with same default bundler version already installed. Pull request #7244 by deivid-rodriguez

## Documentation:

  • Improve comment explaining the necessity of write_default_spec method. Pull request #6563 by voxik

SHA256 Checksums:

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