Add --cooldown to gem install, update and outdated - #9734
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A cooldown period excludes gem versions published within the last N days from installation and update, as a mitigation against supply chain attacks through freshly published releases. This adds the configuration mechanism: the Gem::Cooldown judgment class, the :cooldown: gemrc setting, and the --cooldown DAYS option mixin. The --cooldown option takes precedence over gemrc, and 0 disables the cooldown. Versions with an unknown publish time are never excluded, so the cooldown fails open. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The resolver drops release candidates published within the cooldown period, alongside the platform and required_ruby_version filters, so gem install falls back to the newest version outside the window. Installed and lockfile specifications carry no publish time and are never dropped. When an explicitly requested version is within the window, resolution fails with a hint naming the cooldown period and the --cooldown 0 bypass. Sources that provide no publish times at all warn once and are not filtered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
gem update installs the resolved version with an exact pin, so the resolver filter cannot make it fall back. Filter instead when picking the target name tuple, using the new Gem::Source#created_at, which looks up a version's publish time through the compact index info file for the gem. While a cooldown is active the update and outdated lookups search the full index instead of the latest-only index, which carries nothing to fall back to. gem outdated picks the newest version outside the cooldown period as the update candidate and annotates a newer version still within the period with "(cooldown Nd)". Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tuple selection and resolver filters already apply to rubygems-update, so gem update --system needs no dedicated code path. Add coverage that the newest release within the cooldown period is passed over in favor of the newest one outside it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Gem versions published within the last N days can now be excluded from
gem install,gem update(including--system) andgem outdated, porting Bundler's cooldown supply chain mitigation to the gem CLI. The period comes from--cooldown DAYSor the:cooldown:gemrc setting, with the flag taking precedence and0disabling it.Resolution falls back to the newest version outside the window. An explicitly requested version inside the window fails with a hint to pass
--cooldown 0. Versions with no known publish time are never excluded, so Marshal indexes,file://sources and historical versions keep working, with a one-time warning when a source provides no publish times at all.gem updatefilters at name-tuple selection through the newGem::Source#created_at, since it installs with an exact version pin.Generated with Claude Code