3.2.0.rc.2 Released

RubyGems 3.2.0.rc.2 includes minor enhancements, bug fixes, performance, major enhancements, minor enhancements, bug fixes and deprecations.

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:

• Don’t hit the network when installing dependencyless local gemspec. Pull request #3968 by deivid-rodriguez
• Add --force option to gem sources command. Pull request #3956 by andy-smith-msm
• Make –dry-run flag consistent across rubygems commands. Pull request #3867 by bronzdoc
• Disallow downgrades to too old versions. Pull request #3566 by deivid-rodriguez
• Added --platform option to build command. Pull request #3079 by nobu
• Have “gem update –system” pass through the --silent flag. Pull request #3789 by duckinator
• Add writable check for cache dir. Pull request #3876 by xndcn
• Warn on duplicate dependency in a specification. Pull request #3864 by bronzdoc
• Fix indentation in gem env. Pull request #3861 by colby-swandale
• Let more exceptions flow. Pull request #3819 by deivid-rodriguez
• Ignore internal frames in RubyGems’ Kernel#warn. Pull request #3810 by eregon

Bug fixes:

• Append ‘.gemspec’ extension only when it is not present.. Pull request #3988 by voxik
• Install to correct plugins dir when using --build-root. Pull request #3972 by deivid-rodriguez
• Fix --build-root flag under Windows. Pull request #3975 by deivid-rodriguez
• Fix typo_squatting? false positive for rubygems.org itself. Pull request #3951 by andy-smith-msm
• Make --default and --install-dir options to gem install play nice together. Pull request #3906 by deivid-rodriguez
• Add missing fileutils require. Pull request #3911 by deivid-rodriguez
• Fix false positive warning on Windows when PATH has File::ALT_SEPARATOR. Pull request #3829 by deivid-rodriguez
• Fix Kernel#warn override to handle backtrace location with nil path. Pull request #3852 by jeremyevans
• Don’t format executables on gem update --system. Pull request #3811 by deivid-rodriguez
• gem install --user fails with Gem::FilePermissionError on the system plugins directory. Pull request #3804 by nobu

Performance:

• Don’t change ruby process CWD when building extensions. Pull request #3498 by deivid-rodriguez
• Avoid duplicated generation of APISpecification objects. Pull request #3940 by mame
• Eval defaults with frozen_string_literal: true. Pull request #3847 by casperisfine
• Deduplicate the requirement operators in memory. Pull request #3846 by casperisfine
• Optimize Gem.already_loaded?. Pull request #3793 by casperisfine

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