From 834c76a6582a8c99243945bd2ce322ced7f65355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Md Junaed Hossain <169046794+junaed-optimizely@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 20:12:54 +0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] [FSSDK-13070] update CHANGELOG for ruby v5.5.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c4c12dda..66d9bf61 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Optimizely Ruby SDK Changelog
 
+## 5.5.0
+September 2, 2026
+
+### New Features
+
+**Holdout Targeted Delivery Exclusion**: Holdouts can now be configured to exclude Targeted Delivery rules, so users held out of experiments still receive their Targeted Delivery experiences. This gives you a cleaner measure of experiment impact without holding users back from ongoing rollouts.
+
+- Add holdout exclusion logic for Targeted Delivery rules ([#405](https://github.com/optimizely/ruby-sdk/pull/405))
+
 ## 5.4.0
 July 8, 2026
 

From 3072c8b6e6d16dff1d72c0e305381835899af514 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Md Junaed Hossain <169046794+junaed-optimizely@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 20:13:04 +0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] [FSSDK-13070] bump version to 5.5.0

---
 lib/optimizely/version.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/optimizely/version.rb b/lib/optimizely/version.rb
index 918b0c5b..06ca020f 100644
--- a/lib/optimizely/version.rb
+++ b/lib/optimizely/version.rb
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@
 #
 module Optimizely
   CLIENT_ENGINE = 'ruby-sdk'
-  VERSION = '5.4.0'
+  VERSION = '5.5.0'
 end

From aa8c7478189526427c91198ebb18ca5cb2b85d63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: esrakartalOpt <esra.kartal@optimizely.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 12:22:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] [FSSDK-13070] Guard Coveralls loading behind env var to
 fix test suite

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 spec/spec_helper.rb | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index f9dd1dcb..9d9f20fa 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@
 #    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 #    limitations under the License.
 #
-require 'coveralls'
-Coveralls.wear!
+if ENV['COVERALLS_REPO_TOKEN']
+  require 'coveralls'
+  Coveralls.wear!
+end
 $LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path('../lib', __dir__)
 require 'optimizely'
 require 'spec_params'