diff --git a/config/software/metasploit-framework.rb b/config/software/metasploit-framework.rb
index 438c2f5..a15c5f2 100644
--- a/config/software/metasploit-framework.rb
+++ b/config/software/metasploit-framework.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
 name "metasploit-framework"
+
+# Detect a local checkout of metasploit-framework at '../metasploit-framework' - i.e. for the scenario of:
+# - c:/temp/metasploit-omnibus
+# - c:/temp/metasploit-framework (A local checkout of framework to use during the build process)
+# but try and use 'C:/metasploit-framework' - as that's the metasploit-omnibus artifacts output directory
+def has_windows_metasploit_framework_repo?
+  windows? && File.exist?('../metasploit-framework') && File.expand_path(File.join(Dir.pwd, "..", "metasploit-framework")) != "c:/metasploit-framework"
+end
+
 if linux? && File.exist?("/metasploit-framework")
   # supply current version of metasploit-framework at root of filesystem
   source path: "/metasploit-framework"
-elsif windows? && File.exist?('../metasploit-framework')
+elsif has_windows_metasploit_framework_repo?
   # supply current version of metasploit-framework relative to the current directory
   source path: "../metasploit-framework"
 else
@@ -154,4 +163,12 @@
       end
     end
   end
+
+  # Workaround for a Windows bug with chef r7_9.0.23_custom that allows the `.git` folders through
+  # into the final build result, leading to the .exe being an extra 1gb in size
+  block do
+    self.project.exclusions.each do |exclusion|
+      Pathname(install_dir).glob(exclusion).each(&:rmtree)
+    end
+  end
 end
diff --git a/config/software/rubygems.rb b/config/software/rubygems.rb
index 68f5acf..30dcf6b 100644
--- a/config/software/rubygems.rb
+++ b/config/software/rubygems.rb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   dependency "ruby"
 end
 
-default_version "3.2.22"
+default_version "3.5.10"
 
 if version && !source
   # NOTE: 2.1.11 is the last version of rubygems before the 2.2.x change to native gem install location
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
   known_tarballs = {
     "3.1.4" => "d117187a8f016cbe8f52011ae02e858b",
     "3.2.22"=> "b128d5493da2ec7a1da49a7189c04b35",
+    "3.5.10" => "70f46c096b4e11c42b0190cc3e3375e2"
   }
   known_tarballs.each do |vsn, md5|
     version vsn do
diff --git a/local/cache b/local/cache
index 984fcfb..9dc4af6 160000
--- a/local/cache
+++ b/local/cache
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 984fcfb697151a942583ba831102c584d13773ad
+Subproject commit 9dc4af6026a0e62071cc8ed8130bc76c4e1235b0