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This is Washington with the latest news from Rails!

Featured

This week’s Rails contributors

Again we start pointing to the 40 people who took some time to improve the framework this week!

Rails 4.2.6 and 4.1.15 have been released

After a round of release candidates here goes the latest stable releases. Hopefully a quite easy upgrade if you’ve been following the latest security patches.

New Stuff

Introduced ActionController::Parameters#dig

Similar to Hash#dig, this easter egg for Ruby 2.3.0 users was introduced this week and should land with Rails 5.

Improved

Symmetric job payload across JSON dump/load

One last piece of a non-native JSON data type, aka Ruby symbols, was normalized so that one can make successful run time checks.

Default rendering behavior on respond_to collector

This is done so that actions using respond_to blocks go hand in hand with Rails 5 default :no_content response for missing templates.

Prevent Marshal.load from looping infinitely

Improved compatibility for marshalled objects between Rails versions, e.g. Rails 4.0.x and 4.2.x

Execute default_scope within the scope of subclass

Give a proper context to queries involving a default_scope triggered from a subclass of ActiveRecord#Base.abstract_class.

Wrapping Up

That’s all for This week in Rails. As always, there are plenty of things we’re not able to cover here, so take a look at the changes yourself.

Until next time!