--- title: "Does your gem have over 165 million downloads? Well.." publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 608 published_at: "2022-06-16" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/608" --- Plus attr_accessor's secrets, Heroku's new stack, and the profitable Ruby Slack bot. | [🇺🇦](https://war.ukraine.ua/) #​608 — June 16, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/608) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/xhqbjsmcdwns7wh6hr6w.jpg)](https://blog.rubygems.org/2022/06/13/making-packages-more-secure.html) [Making Popular Ruby Packages More Secure](https://blog.rubygems.org/2022/06/13/making-packages-more-secure.html) — Mirroring similar moves by GitHub with the npm registry, RubyGems’ maintainers want to improve the security of the Ruby ecosystem by making maintainers of the most popular gems use multi-factor authentication on their RubyGems accounts to mitigate account takeovers. 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