Happy Friday! After three weeks of conferencing, this is Greg, bringing you the news about the latest changes in your favorite framework. It was a busy week with a lot of changes, let’s dive in. Rails Version 8.0.3 has been released! A new version of Rails…

Hi, it’s Claudio Baccigalupo. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Bump PostgreSQL client version to 18 The PostgreSQL client version in the devcontainer now points to the latest release of PostgreSQL, which is great because… Support virtual…

Hi, it’s zzak. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. New documentation PR is up for community review The Rails Initialization Guide covers how Rails boots up, including the internal method calls, file load order, and how to hook into the…

Earlier today, the Ruby core team announced the transfer of repository ownership for RubyGems and Bundler to the Ruby core team. This decision reflects our shared commitment to the long-term stability and growth of the Ruby ecosystem.

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Hi, it's zzak. Let's explore this week's changes in the Rails codebase. Add support for per-adapter migration strategy You can now set migration_strategy on individual adapter classes, overriding the global ActiveRecord.migration_strategy. This allows individual…

Hi, it’s Vipul. Let’s explore this week’s changes in the Rails codebase. Active Support Instrumentation Documentation This Pull Request updates the Active Support Instrumentation documentation to receive various additions, improvements and more. It is now…

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Hi, Wojtek here. The Rails Community is not slowing down giving us another week of great news and features. Marco Roth as 2025 Rails Luminary If you attended any Ruby/Rails conference this year, there are high chances you met Marco in person sharing his passion…

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Release 3.5.0-preview1 · ruby/ruby
Release 4.0.0-preview2 · ruby/ruby
Release 4.0.0-preview3 · ruby/ruby

What's Changed

Bump RDoc to 7.0.1 by st0012 · Pull Request #15628
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Hi, Wojtek here. Let’s see what changed in the Rails codebase. Disable the Active Record query cache in the console by default Pass –query-cache to enable it for the session. Fix inflections to better handle overlapping acronyms ActiveSupport::Inflector.…

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