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BOOTSNAP FIXES FROZEN STRING LITERALS AND COVERAGE CONFLICTS ON RUBY 4.0.4

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byroot drjayvee
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Bootsnap now plays nice with coverage tools and properly tracks ISeq compile option mutations, unblocking Ruby 4.0.4+ deployments.

The real story lives in Bootsnap [1][2][3], where a trio of fixes landed overnight to handle edge cases that break on newer Ruby versions. When `RubyVM::ISeq.compile_option` mutates at runtime, Bootsnap's custom compilers weren't updating — that's fixed [1]. More critical: `Bootsnap.enable_frozen_string_literal` now works even when coverage is enabled [2], but only on Ruby 4.0.4+, because coverage suspension (not full stop) breaks ISeq dumping [3]. This matters because until now, the coverage check during ISeq dumping was effectively a no-op on older Rubies.

Meanwhile, Rails itself is doing housekeeping. The QueAdapter reference was finally removed from ActiveJob [4][5], cleaning up stale code after the adapter was dropped. Docs across rails/rails and rails-dom-testing got formatting fixes [6][7][8][9][10] — proper indentation and <tt> tags so RDoc renders correctly. These are small wins but they matter for anyone reading the API docs on a fresh install.

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References

  1. [1] Better support `RubyVM::ISeq.compile_option` being mutated ↗ rails/bootsnap
  2. [2] Make `Bootsnap.enable_frozen_string_literal` work even with coverage on ↗ rails/bootsnap
  3. [3] Handle Coverage being suspended ↗ rails/bootsnap
  4. [4] Merge pull request #57357 from p8/activejob/remove-reference-to-que ↗ rails/rails
  5. [5] Remove reference to removed Que adapter ↗ rails/rails
  6. [6] Fix docs formatting for `ActionController::Live` [ci skip] ↗ rails/rails
  7. [7] Merge pull request #57359 from p8/activestorage/fix-formatting-of-controller-docs ↗ rails/rails
  8. [8] Fix formatting in Active Storage controller docs ↗ rails/rails
  9. [9] Merge pull request #127 from drjayvee/fix-assert_dom-docs ↗ rails/rails-dom-testing
  10. [10] Fix documentation formatting in SelectorAssertions#assert_dom ↗ rails/rails-dom-testing

$ ls rails/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Active Storage gets a direct-upload kill switch the month in review Rails deepens Ractor safety, ships Marcel 2.0, and retires decade-old APIs
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Quick answers

What shipped in Rails on May 14, 2026?
Bootsnap now plays nice with coverage tools and properly tracks ISeq compile option mutations, unblocking Ruby 4.0.4+ deployments. In total, 18 commits, 9 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Rails on May 14, 2026?
2 developers shipped this update, including byroot and drjayvee.
What were the notable Rails updates?
Better support `RubyVM::ISeq.compile_option` being mutated, Make `Bootsnap.enable_frozen_string_literal` work even with coverage on, and Handle Coverage being suspended.
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Bootsnap guards d_type for Illumos, Rails trims Ractor test skips 17 shipped MySQL deadlock fix for find_or_create_by, Asset Pipeline guide rewrite 19 shipped kamipo retires three legacy Active Record holdovers 16 shipped Postgres index lookups scoped to the resolved table, mariadb replaces mysql5 in dbconsole 28 shipped

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