The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • docrails, back to the roots

    A bit of history docrails is a branch of Ruby on Rails thought for quick doc fixes that gets cross-merged with master regularly, please have a look at What is...

  • Rails 4.0: Release Candidate 2 released!

    We’re almost at the end of the road for Rails 4.0.0. This is intended to be the last release candidate before the final version is released. We have just under...

  • 2013 Rails Google Summer of Code Projects

    Google has announced the accepted projects for the Summer of Code 2013 and Rails has been granted five slots. Here’s what our students will be working on this summer: Genadi...

  • Rails 4.0: Release Candidate 1 released!

    Just in time for the opening of RailsConf, we managed to push out the first release candidate of Rails 4.0. This incorporates no less than 1,368 commits since beta 1....

  • Google Summer of Code 2013

    We’re pleased to announce, Ruby on Rails has been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2013 as a mentoring organization. What does this mean to you? Potentially, if you’re the...

  • [SEC] [ANN] Rails 3.2.13, 3.1.12, and 2.3.18 have been released!

    Hi everyone! Rails versions 3.2.13, 3.1.12, and 2.3.18 have been released. These releases contain important security fixes. It is recommended users upgrade as soon as possible. Please check out these...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.2.13.rc2 has been released!

    Hi everybody. I’d like to announce that Rails 3.2.13.rc2 has been released. Rails 3.2.13.rc2 contains fixes for regressions found in rc1. Please test out rc2. If you find regressions between...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.2.13.rc1 has been released!

    Hey everyone! I am pumped to announce that Rails 3.2.13.rc1 has been released! If no regressions are found I will release 3.2.13 final in two weeks, on March 13, 2013....

  • Rails 4.0: Beta 1 released!

    Hot on the heels of the first production version of Ruby 2.0 comes the first beta version of Rails 4.0. The two form a great pair and are already running...

  • Maintenance policy for Ruby on Rails

    Since the most recent patch releases there has been some confusion about what versions of Ruby on Rails are currently supported, and when people can expect new versions. Our maintenance...