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+title: April 2021 RubyGems Updates
+layout: post
+author: Gift Egwuenu
+author_email: laurandidi21@gmail.com
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+Welcome to the RubyGems monthly update! As part of our efforts at [Ruby Together](http://rubytogether.org/), 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](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems) and [RubyGems.org](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org) in April.
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+## RubyGems News
+This Month in RubyGems, we released new versions for **RubyGems** [v3.2.16](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/bb93b974100e9ddff7043e648d762e8a412be04e/CHANGELOG.md#3216--2021-04-08), [v3.2.17](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/bb93b974100e9ddff7043e648d762e8a412be04e/CHANGELOG.md#3217--2021-05-05) and corresponding versions for **Bundler** [v2.2.16](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/bb93b974100e9ddff7043e648d762e8a412be04e/bundler/CHANGELOG.md#2216-april-8-2021) and [v2.2.17](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/bb93b974100e9ddff7043e648d762e8a412be04e/bundler/CHANGELOG.md#2217-may-5-2021). 
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+As part of those releases, we made the following improvements and fixes:
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+- fixed an issue affecting custom `sidekiq-pro` gem servers, which was preventing users from upgrading their sidekiq-pro version - [#4563](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4563).
+- made Bundler more secure by preventing any credentials from being logged to the screen, thus potentially preventing users from unintentionally leaking them when pasting them to a Github issue or similar situations - [#4564](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4564), [#4566](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4566).
+- fixed a few resolution & materialization issues in Bundler - [#4556](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4556), [#4562](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/4562), and also improved RubyGems handling of repositories including symlinks - [#2836](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/2836).``
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+In April, Rubygems gained [101 new commits](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/compare/master@%7B2021-04-01%7D...master@%7B2021-04-30%7D), contributed by 15 authors. There were 1591 additions and 391 deletions across 134 files.
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+## RubyGems.org News
+In April, RubyGems.org saw several bug fixes and updates this month, some of which include the following:
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+- enabled support of non-SNI traffic on rubygems.org by migration fastly endpoints to dedicated IP -[#4228](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/4228).
+- [enabled auth requirement for URL purge requests to Fastly](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/commit/da99700a6c727a4381648e4b687d4d3f08f67a25).
+- fixed failing background jobs for sending the email confirmation - [#2694](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2694), [#2695](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2695).
+- added validation for `unconfirmed_email` regex - [#2694](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2694).
+- fixed `RecordNotFound` in `OwnershipConfirmation` mailer - [#2695](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2695).
+- reduced abusers rate limit to 30 rps - [#2703](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2703).
+- enabled Multi-Factor Authentication(MFA) instruction only if `current_user` has MFA disabled - [#2705](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2705).
+- thanks to[@arthurnn](https://github.com/arthurnn) and [@greysteil](https://github.com/greysteil), we now support automatic revocation of API keys committed to GitHub repositories - [#2687](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2687) Note that this is only supported for new API key format, please check our [guide for migration from legacy API key](https://guides.rubygems.org/api-key-scopes/#migration-from-legacy-api-key).
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+For this Month, [RubyGems.org](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org) gained [45 new commits](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/compare/master@%7B2021-04-01%7D...master@%7B2021-04-30%7D), contributed by 9 authors. There were 424 additions and 52 deletions across 34 files.
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+## Ruby Toolbox News
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+In April, we focused on maintenance work that involved  fixing random failures in the Ruby Toolbox visual regression CI tests, dependency upgrades, fixes on a webhook reception, and renaming default git branches to main across all Ruby Toolbox repositories.
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+As always, we continue to fix bugs, review and merge PR’s and reply to support tickets.
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+---
+Learn more about contributing to RubyGems by visiting the [RubyGems Contributing Guide](https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute). We welcome all kinds of contributions, including bug fixes, feature implementation, writing and updating documentation, and bug triage.