Bridgetown 2.1 Has Come to Town! Happy Holidays 🥳
Jared White
on You better watch out (I’m telling you why): the latest release of our merry little Ruby framework is coming to town! Yes indeed, Bridgetown 2.1 “Festive River City” is here, with a marquee feature enabling you to load in wiki-style content & “digital gardens” managed by external applications, and a slew of other improvements. And you’d better believe we’re ready for the imminent Christmas release of Ruby 4.0!
You can read more about the release details here in our initial beta post, and there are a couple additional details we need to mention:
- We now have a brand-new Matrix chat room! Embrace open protocols and chat with fellow Bridgetowners on Matrix. (We recommend you install Element X for iOS & Android so you can access Matrix via mobile platforms.)
- We fully embrace Bridgetown projects configured to bundle gems from alternative community servers like gem.coop as well as our own canonical gems.bridgetownrb.com server. Read the details here.
Read the 2.1 release notes here. To upgrade, make sure you’re running at least Ruby 3.2 and Node 22, then modify your Gemfile:
gem "bridgetown", "~> 2.1.0"
gem "bridgetown-routes", "~> 2.1.0" # if applicable
and run bundle update. Upgrade instructions here. Or you can run gem install bridgetown -N -v 2.1.0 and then create a new site.
And of course we continue to push for awareness of “indie web” and sustainable alternatives to Big Tech solutions. Our documentation now includes information on how to deploy static Bridgetown sites to statichost.eu, and our Automations feature can load automation scripts from Codeberg and GitLab repositories in addition to GitHub.
If you run into any issues trying out Bridgetown 2.1, please hop into our community channels and let us know how we can help. We welcome your feedback and ideas! In addition, you can follow us on Bluesky and the fediverse to stay current on the latest news.
Happy Holidays! See y’all in the New Year! 🎉 🎆