---
title: "Firefly 0.4.1 released"
kind: article
slug: firefly-041-released
created_at: 2010-04-30
tags:
  - firefly
  - url shortening
---
I just pushed [Firefly 0.4.1][1] to [Rubygems][2]. Updating is easy:

    gem update firefly

Don't forget to restart your server, that's all.

The 0.4.1 release covers the following changes:

 * Normalize URLs before shortening them. This prevents false duplicates.
 * Validate URLs to be valid HTTP or HTTPS, don't accept others. Closes #8
 * Don't ask for the API key after shortening a URL with the bookmarklet.
 * Show the highlighted URL separately. Closes #7.

[1]: http://github.com/ariejan/firefly/tree/v0.4.1
[2]: http://rubygems.org/gems/firefly
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If you are interested in contributing to Firefly, please fork the project on [github][3]. Pull requests are very welcome.

[3]: http://github.com/ariejan/firefly