The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails 3.1: Release candidate

    As I promised at RailsConf, we’re finally good to go on the Rails 3.1: Release Candidate. This is a fantastically exciting release. We have three new star features and an...

  • Rails 3.1 beta 1 released

    We’ve taken our first release step towards the final version of Rails 3.1 today with the unveiling of beta 1. This is a release mostly for people who’ve already been...

  • jQuery: New Default

    In Rails 3.1 jQuery is going to be the default JavaScript library. Also, RJS has been extracted out. This post explains what that means for new applications, and what to...

  • Rails 3.0.7 has been released!

    Hello everyone! I’ve released Rails version 3.0.7! I want to say thanks to Santiago for handling the release candidate gems. He’s on vacation, so I get to do the real...

  • Why HTTP Streaming?

    Rails 3.1 is going to support HTTP streaming, aka chunked responses, this post explains what’s all about. What Is HTTP Streaming? Ordinary dynamic HTTP responses need a Content-Length header. Their...

  • Ruby Hero Awards 2011

    It’s that time again to take a moment to think about those who have impacted the Ruby community this year but have not received the recognition they deserve. We have...

  • Rails 3.0.6 has been released!

    Hi everybody! Rails 3.0.6 has been released! Let’s get the serious business out of the way first: Rails 3.0.6 contains an important security fix! Please upgrade! Rails versions 3.0.x prior...

  • Rails 3.0.5 has been released!

    Aaron Patterson showed us some tenderlove this week by releasing Rails 3.0.5. Have a peek at what got updated. Bugs Fixed Fix when gzip returns a UTF-8 string on Ruby...

  • CSRF Protection Bypass in Ruby on Rails

    There is a vulnerability in Ruby on Rails which could allow an attacker to circumvent the CSRF protection provided. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE Identifier CVE-2011-0447. Versions Affected:...

  • New Releases: 2.3.11 and 3.0.4

    Two new versions of Ruby On Rails have been released today. As well as including a number of bugfixes they contain fixes for some security issues. The full details of...