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title: Ruby-SDK - v5.5.0
slug: feature-experimentation/release-notes/ruby-sdk-v5-5-0
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createdAt: 2026-10-04T12:21:30.000Z
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## 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))

[https://github.com/optimizely/ruby-sdk/releases/tag/v5.5.0](https://github.com/optimizely/ruby-sdk/releases/tag/v5.5.0)