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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.

  • Rendering Markdown is real, plus new database connection pool options

    Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Rails 8.1 Beta 1 lands The first beta release was cut for Rails 8.1, see the post for...

  • Rails 8.1 Beta 1: Job continuations, structured events, local CI

    Rails 8.1 represents the work of over 500 contributors across 2500 commits in the last ten months since our last major release, and we’re thrilled to time the first beta...

  • Dark mode on welcome page and more

    Hi, Wojtek here. Part of our newsletter team - Claudio, Greg, Vipul, and me will be at the Rails World next week. Greg and Claudio will also be MCing the...

  • Meet the Rails World 2025 Sponsors

    Rails World is next week and we’d love to share with you all of the sponsors who are contributing to making this year’s edition a memorable event for the community....

  • Updated Plugins Guide, current_page? with any HTTP method and more!

    Hi, it’s Greg. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Rails Plugin documentation update As part of improving the documentation of the framework, The Rails Plugins Guide has...

  • Structured Event Reporting lands in Rails!

    Hi! Emmanuel Hayford here with some Rails codebase updates for you! Add #assert_events_reported test helper Rails added a new test helper that lets you assert multiple events were reported within...

  • Rails Versions 7.1.5.2, 7.2.2.2, and 8.0.2.1 have been released!

    Hi friends! Rails Versions 7.1.5.2, 7.2.2.2, and 8.0.2.1 have been released! These are security patches addressing two security issues: An issue in Active Storage where transformation methods could potentially be...

  • Upgrading the Rails World App for 2025

    Last year, we launched the official Rails World conference app, an open-source event app built in collaboration with Telos Labs to help attendees connect and up to date. (You can...

  • Support for rack.response_finished callbacks in executor

    Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Add support for “rack.response_finished” callbacks in Action Dispatch’s Executor The executor middleware now supports deferring completion callbacks to...

  • Fullscript joins the Rails Foundation

    The Rails Foundation is happy to welcome Fullscript our newest Contributing member. Fullscript is a leading healthcare platform powering whole person care, helping over 100,000 providers and 10 million patients...