diff --git a/lib/pom.rb b/lib/pom.rb
index a93ce28dd41..d42bc0bb6d6 100644
--- a/lib/pom.rb
+++ b/lib/pom.rb
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def log(message=nil)
     # ['set', '1.0.2'],
     ['shellwords', '0.1.0'],
     ['singleton', '0.1.1'],
-    ['stringio', '3.0.8'],
+    ['stringio', '3.1.2'],
     ['strscan', '3.1.0'],
     ['subspawn', '0.1.1'], # has 3 transitive deps:
       ['subspawn-posix', '0.1.1'],
diff --git a/lib/pom.xml b/lib/pom.xml
index 18f934c2a5e..7c466a6571c 100644
--- a/lib/pom.xml
+++ b/lib/pom.xml
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ DO NOT MODIFY - GENERATED CODE
     <dependency>
       <groupId>rubygems</groupId>
       <artifactId>stringio</artifactId>
-      <version>3.0.8</version>
+      <version>3.1.2</version>
       <type>gem</type>
       <scope>provided</scope>
       <exclusions>
@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ DO NOT MODIFY - GENERATED CODE
           <include>specifications/securerandom-0.2.0*</include>
           <include>specifications/shellwords-0.1.0*</include>
           <include>specifications/singleton-0.1.1*</include>
-          <include>specifications/stringio-3.0.8*</include>
+          <include>specifications/stringio-3.1.2*</include>
           <include>specifications/strscan-3.1.0*</include>
           <include>specifications/subspawn-0.1.1*</include>
           <include>specifications/subspawn-posix-0.1.1*</include>
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ DO NOT MODIFY - GENERATED CODE
           <include>gems/securerandom-0.2.0*/**/*</include>
           <include>gems/shellwords-0.1.0*/**/*</include>
           <include>gems/singleton-0.1.1*/**/*</include>
-          <include>gems/stringio-3.0.8*/**/*</include>
+          <include>gems/stringio-3.1.2*/**/*</include>
           <include>gems/strscan-3.1.0*/**/*</include>
           <include>gems/subspawn-0.1.1*/**/*</include>
           <include>gems/subspawn-posix-0.1.1*/**/*</include>
@@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ DO NOT MODIFY - GENERATED CODE
           <include>cache/securerandom-0.2.0*</include>
           <include>cache/shellwords-0.1.0*</include>
           <include>cache/singleton-0.1.1*</include>
-          <include>cache/stringio-3.0.8*</include>
+          <include>cache/stringio-3.1.2*</include>
           <include>cache/strscan-3.1.0*</include>
           <include>cache/subspawn-0.1.1*</include>
           <include>cache/subspawn-posix-0.1.1*</include>
diff --git a/spec/tags/ruby/library/stringio/set_encoding_by_bom_tags.txt b/spec/tags/ruby/library/stringio/set_encoding_by_bom_tags.txt
index 59c5e97111e..244cb5ad771 100644
--- a/spec/tags/ruby/library/stringio/set_encoding_by_bom_tags.txt
+++ b/spec/tags/ruby/library/stringio/set_encoding_by_bom_tags.txt
@@ -1,18 +1 @@
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns nil if not readable
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns the result encoding if found BOM UTF-8 sequence
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns the result encoding if found BOM UTF_16LE sequence
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns the result encoding if found BOM UTF_16BE sequence
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns the result encoding if found BOM UTF_32LE sequence
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns the result encoding if found BOM UTF_32BE sequence
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns nil if io is empty
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns nil if UTF-8 BOM sequence is incomplete
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns nil if UTF-16BE BOM sequence is incomplete
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns nil if UTF-16LE/UTF-32LE BOM sequence is incomplete
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns UTF-16LE if UTF-32LE BOM sequence is incomplete
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns nil if UTF-32BE BOM sequence is incomplete
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom returns nil if found BOM sequence not provided
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom does not raise exception if io not in binary mode
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom does not raise exception if encoding already set
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom does not raise exception if encoding conversion is already set
 fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom raises FrozenError when io is frozen
-fails(waiting on release of ruby/stringio#101):StringIO#set_encoding_by_bom does not raise FrozenError when initial string is frozen