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    Allow normal version updates within a release series · 46d1cc90
    Matthew Draper authored
    We originally chose to apply very strict versioning on the `rails` entry
    in the Gemfile, because our future versioning policy was not strongly
    defined.
    
    Now it is, and our policy is very much designed on the expectation that
    people will regularly update to the latest patch level in their release
    series... so we should encourage that.
    
    Of course, Gemfile.lock will do its job and prevent unplanned updates,
    just as it does for every other gem in the bundle... but if you run
    `bundle update`, we want to get you the latest bug/security fixes
    without requiring a manual edit of the Gemfile entry.
    
    Our current version could be a few different shapes, so it takes a bit
    of work to find the right specifier, but in principle, we match anything
    of the form x.y.*, where x.y matches our current release series.
    46d1cc90
    Allow normal version updates within a release series
    Matthew Draper authored
    We originally chose to apply very strict versioning on the `rails` entry
    in the Gemfile, because our future versioning policy was not strongly
    defined.
    
    Now it is, and our policy is very much designed on the expectation that
    people will regularly update to the latest patch level in their release
    series... so we should encourage that.
    
    Of course, Gemfile.lock will do its job and prevent unplanned updates,
    just as it does for every other gem in the bundle... but if you run
    `bundle update`, we want to get you the latest bug/security fixes
    without requiring a manual edit of the Gemfile entry.
    
    Our current version could be a few different shapes, so it takes a bit
    of work to find the right specifier, but in principle, we match anything
    of the form x.y.*, where x.y matches our current release series.
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