From 1e15d50ad7b216611dd78aebd8e333c904b6046e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Ohler <peter@ohler.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:46:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Gemspec should be more tolerant of bigdecimal versions

---
 CHANGELOG.md      | 4 ++++
 lib/oj/version.rb | 2 +-
 oj.gemspec        | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7ab53db6..f87a789b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## 3.16.3 - 2023-12-11
+
+- Fixed the gemspec to allow earlier versions of the bigdecimal gem.
+
 ## 3.16.2 - 2023-12-06
 
 - Fixed documentation formatting.
diff --git a/lib/oj/version.rb b/lib/oj/version.rb
index 39bbe0d5..4acf292a 100644
--- a/lib/oj/version.rb
+++ b/lib/oj/version.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 module Oj
   # Current version of the module.
-  VERSION = '3.16.2'
+  VERSION = '3.16.3'
 end
diff --git a/oj.gemspec b/oj.gemspec
index 149a0dd4..232ee9cb 100644
--- a/oj.gemspec
+++ b/oj.gemspec
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.extra_rdoc_files = ['README.md', 'LICENSE', 'CHANGELOG.md', 'RELEASE_NOTES.md'] + Dir['pages/*.md']
   s.rdoc_options = ['--title', 'Oj', '--main', 'README.md']
 
-  s.add_runtime_dependency 'bigdecimal', '~> 3.1'
+  s.add_runtime_dependency 'bigdecimal', '>= 3.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'minitest', '~> 5'
   s.add_development_dependency 'rake-compiler', '>= 0.9', '< 2.0'
   s.add_development_dependency 'test-unit', '~> 3.0'