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RAILS TIGHTENS MIGRATION REVERSIBILITY AND TIMESTAMPS VALIDATION

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Two critical migration fixes landed overnight that prevent silent failures when rolling back idempotent operations, plus stricter validation for ignored options in change_table blocks.

Rails now raises ArgumentError when remove_timestamps receives if_exists or if_not_exists options it cannot honor, closing the last gap in change_table validation [1]. Previously every other column-altering helper in change_table raised on ignored conditional options, but remove_timestamps quietly dropped them and proceeded anyway, masking developer intent during migrations.

Inversion of add_index and remove_index now correctly translates conditional modifiers so rollbacks stay idempotent [2]. The bug meant inverting add_index with if_not_exists carried the wrong option to the generated remove_index, and rolling back remove_index with if_exists lost its safety modifier entirely. Both scenarios would explode on replay if the index state didn't match the original migration attempt.

On the lighter side, Rails added this_quarter? to Date and Time [4], completing the predicate family alongside this_week?, this_month?, and this_year?. Also landed: documentation fix clarifying that number_to_percentage defaults to 3 decimal places, not 2 [3], bringing docs in line with actual behavior.

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Quick answers

What shipped in Rails on July 5, 2026?
Two critical migration fixes landed overnight that prevent silent failures when rolling back idempotent operations, plus stricter validation for ignored options in change_table blocks. In total, 22 commits and 13 pull requests landed.
What were the notable Rails updates?
Raise on ignored if_exists option in change_table remove_timestamps, Make add_index/remove_index if_(not_)exists reversible, and Fix incorrect number_to_percentage default precision in docs [ci skip].
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$ log @rails --recent

Attribute-read regression fixed, decimal numericality corrected 79 shipped in_order_of double-serializes values, id_value alias restored 50 shipped Inlined attribute writers, leaner ActiveRecord::Key 31 shipped MySQL 5.6 falls off the support floor as Arel stops rebuilding literals 27 shipped

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Alignment & Post-training verl standardizes low-precision rollout kernels on DeepGEMM Agent Security Guardrails exposes hooks over HTTP, certifi floor raised in agent-scan

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Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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