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   Removed from stdlib. [Feature #10169]
 
 * Rubygems
-  * Removed "ubygems.rb" file from stdlib. It's needless after the Ruby 1.9.
+  * Removed "ubygems.rb" file from stdlib. It's needless since Ruby 1.9.
 
 === C API updates