In June 2025, Rye enhanced the S3 URI signer in both the ruby/ruby and rubygems/rubygems repositories, focusing on improving reliability and reducing signature-related errors. Rye addressed issues with date formatting and refined the handling of HTTP methods, ensuring that HEAD and GET requests were correctly distinguished and explicitly signed. Using Ruby and AWS S3, Rye updated the signing logic and expanded test coverage to validate these changes, which led to fewer 403 errors when accessing S3 assets. This work strengthened the technical foundation for gem distribution workflows and improved the maintainability of backend systems reliant on cloud services.