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4.1.0.beta1 Released

Ruby core committer and RubyGems maintainer.

RubyGems and Bundler 4.1.0.beta1 include features, performance, enhancements, breaking changes, bug fixes and deprecations.

To update to the latest RubyGems you can run:

gem update --system [--pre]

To update to the latest Bundler you can run:

gem install bundler [--pre]
bundle update --bundler=4.1.0.beta1

Release Notes

RubyGems

Changes already released in 4.0.x are not repeated here.

Features:

  • Add content addressable gems support. Pull request #9773 by Jenny Shen, Harriet Oughton and Gira Chawda
  • Let the gem and bundle cooldown settings cover each other. Pull request #9852 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Rubygems: Add PQC ML-DSA support for cryptographically signed gems workflow. Pull request #9697 by Jun Aruga, Kazuki Yamaguchi and Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Preserve non-UTF-8 legacy gem metadata. Pull request #9835 by Stanislav (Stas) Katkov
  • Add an opt-in OS credential store for gem and bundler credentials. Pull request #9671 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Add –cooldown to gem install, update and outdated. Pull request #9734 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Adopt the compact index for gem commands. Pull request #9606 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Replace Molinillo with PubGrub for dependency resolution. Pull request #9402 by Matt Larraz and Colby Swandale
  • Replace the rubygems-specific lockfile parser with Bundler’s parser. Pull request #9564 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Remove pessimistic versioning in gem command output. Pull request #9550 by Jeremy Evans
  • Change Gem::Version#approximate_recommendation to be optimistic. Pull request #9537 by Jeremy Evans
  • Add --no-build-extension and --no-install-plugin options to gem install. Pull request #9473 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Push with auto-attestation. Pull request #9325 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Implement yaml parser written by pure ruby instead of Psych. Pull request #9352 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Honor concurrent_downloads from .gemrc in Gem::ConfigFile. Pull request #9339 by Andrii Furmanets
  • Add support for custom error response from external registries. Pull request #9270 by Luis J. Gonzalez
  • Add global gem cache shared by RubyGems and Bundler. Pull request #9230 by Anthony Panozzo
  • Write gem files atomically. Pull request #9154 by Eileen

Performance:

  • Remove verify_gz. Pull request #9093 by Eileen

Enhancements:

  • Normalize absolute symlink targets during gem extraction. Pull request #9860 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Installs bundler 4.1.0.beta1 as a default gem.

Breaking changes:

  • Stop installing native extension build logs. Pull request #9700 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Remove Gem::BasicSpecification#datadir and check minor-release deprecation horizons. Pull request #9842 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Raise an error when building a gem that has a self reference. Pull request #9392 by Edouard CHIN
  • Revert DEFAULT_INSTALL_EXTENSION_IN_LIB and warn require_relative with C ext. Pull request #9390 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Remove deprecated and unused Gem::List. Pull request #9161 by Hiroshi SHIBATA

Bundler

Changes already released in 4.0.x are not repeated here.

Features:

  • Add content addressable gems support. Pull request #9773 by Jenny Shen, Harriet Oughton and Gira Chawda
  • Let the gem and bundle cooldown settings cover each other. Pull request #9852 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Add a prune setting to drop rebuildable install artifacts. Pull request #9815 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Add an opt-in OS credential store for gem and bundler credentials. Pull request #9671 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Fetch Bundler metadata through Gem::Request instead of net-http-persistent. Pull request #9786 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Reuse RubyGems’ compact index client in Bundler. Pull request #9753 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Reuse RubyGems’ vendored PubGrub in Bundler. Pull request #9752 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Use RubyGems’ YAML serializer in Bundler. Pull request #9751 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Reuse RubyGems’ vendored SecureRandom in Bundler. Pull request #9651 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Reuse RubyGems’ vendored URI in Bundler. Pull request #9650 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Fix two issues by including the ruby platform variants in the lock file. Pull request #9556 by Randy Stauner
  • Fix plugin installation from gemfile. Pull request #6957 by Cody Cutrer, Diogo Fernandes and Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Add plugin hooks for Gemfile evaluation and source fetching. Pull request #9488 by Hiroshi SHIBATA, Cody Cutrer and Marv
  • Use optimistic version constraints in bundle gem output. Pull request #9533 by Jeremy Evans
  • Extend Gemfile override DSL with :all target and metadata fields (Phase 2). Pull request #9530 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Switch bundle add to use optimistic versioning by default. Pull request #9526 by Jeremy Evans
  • Add Gemfile override DSL for version constraints (Phase 1). Pull request #9517 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Add --no-build-extension and --no-install-plugin options to gem install. Pull request #9473 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Include detailed dependencies when gemfile and lockfile are conflicts. Pull request #9332 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Implement relative path handling for plugin paths. Pull request #9299 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Bundler/inline: perform installation from a forked child. Pull request #7941 by Jean Boussier and Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Add global gem cache shared by RubyGems and Bundler. Pull request #9230 by Anthony Panozzo
  • Update custom errors with Exception#full_message. Pull request #8488 by neimadTL

Performance:

  • Use separate Bundler download and installation workers. Pull request #9777 by Joshua Young
  • Cache a shared git source only once per command. Pull request #9689 by Hiroshi SHIBATA

Enhancements:

  • Reject Bundler redirects that downgrade https to http. Pull request #9859 by Hiroshi SHIBATA

Bug fixes:

  • Expand the git source gemspec path before the chdir. Pull request #9845 by Hiroshi SHIBATA

Breaking changes:

  • Remove external tool version checks from bundle env. Pull request #9593 by Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Bundler: ignore patchlevel kwarg in ruby DSL. Pull request #6023 by Takuya N and Hiroshi SHIBATA
  • Unify RubyGems and Bundler documentation. Pull request #9237 by Hiroshi SHIBATA

Deprecations:

  • Rename the no_prune setting to keep_outdated_cache. Pull request #9816 by Hiroshi SHIBATA

Manual Installation

To install RubyGems by hand see the Download RubyGems page.

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