# New release of elastic-apm gem

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-release-of-elastic-apm-gem/390553>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** ruby\
**Created:** [September 21, 2026, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-release-of-elastic-apm-gem/390553 "2026-09-21T11:57:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![opiotrek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/opiotrek/32/148248_2.png) [@opiotrek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/opiotrek)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-release-of-elastic-apm-gem/390553/1 "2026-09-21T11:57:12Z")

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Hello!

The master branch contains an important fix that will unblock our upgrade to Ruby 4.0+. Can you release a new gem version?

> <https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-ruby/commit/4ac97d84c4f607b341a72c4007b447193f34b16e>
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> \* Relax required ruby version to support Ruby 4
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> \* Update test matrix
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> \* Update …supported technologies doc
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> \* Only test Rails 8.1 with Ruby \>= 3.4
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> \* Only test Ruby 4 with Rails \>= 7.0

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**Author:** ![bmorelli25](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bmorelli25/32/38738_2.png) [@bmorelli25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bmorelli25)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-release-of-elastic-apm-gem/390553/2 "2026-09-22T21:06:15Z")

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Hi @opiotrek! Thanks for reaching out. No promises, but I'll let the team know that this is blocking you.

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**Author:** ![opiotrek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/opiotrek/32/148248_2.png) [@opiotrek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/opiotrek)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-release-of-elastic-apm-gem/390553/3 "2026-09-23T05:56:31Z")

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Thank you, Brandon!