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* [#298](https://github.com/codegram/hyperclient/pull/300): Upgraded RuboCop to 1.80.2 - [@dblock](https://github.com/dblock).
* [#298](https://github.com/codegram/hyperclient/pull/298): Upgraded RuboCop to 1.63.5 - [@dblock](https://github.com/dblock).
* [#320](https://github.com/codegram/hyperclient/pull/320): Documented how to handle non-`hal+json` responses via the Faraday response middleware's `content_type` matcher - [@dblock](https://github.com/dblock).
* [#321](https://github.com/codegram/hyperclient/pull/321): Added Ruby 4.0 to the CI test matrix - [@dblock](https://github.com/dblock).
* Your contribution here.

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By default, Hyperclient requires responses to have a `Content-Type` of `application/hal+json`, and raises `Hyperclient::InvalidRepresentationError` otherwise. If your API sometimes returns responses that aren't `hal+json` (e.g. an empty body with a `201 Created`, or a plain `application/json` response), broaden the response middleware's `content_type` matcher as shown above (`content_type: /\bjson$/`) instead of the default, which only matches `hal+json`.

You can modify headers or specify authentication after a connection has been created. Hyperclient supports Basic, Token or [Digest auth](https://github.com/bhaberer/faraday-digestauth) as well as many other Faraday extensions.

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