Who contributed to Rails on August 19, 2026?

9 developers shipped this update, including tristan-f-r, yahonda, Kenta Ishizaki, Xavier Noria, Saidbek, wintan1418, Amanda Perino, and Jean Boussier, and 1 more.

What were the notable Rails updates?

Allow disabling the cache limits, Merge pull request #832 from byroot/disable-digest, and Implement `ignore_mtime` option.

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SPROCKETS CACHE LIMITS GET AN OFF SWITCH

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:55 UTC on August 19, 2026 · About Rails

9 people shipped this

Jean Boussier @byroot 3 cited

wintan1418 @wintan1418 2 cited

yahonda @yahonda 1 cited

tristan-f-r @tristan-f-r

Kenta Ishizaki @55728

Xavier Noria @fxn

Saidbek @Saidbek

Amanda Perino @AmandaPerino

David English @davidenglishmusic

Sprockets just shipped an escape hatch for environments where the cache cleaner costs more than the cache it protects.

Jean Boussier landed a change [1] that lets you disable Sprockets' cache size limits entirely, saving you from stat()'ing thousands of entries in environments where assets rarely change. Pair that with the newly merged [2] `ignore_mtime` option [3], and you can strip out the last-modified-time revalidation that only adds noise when source files come from version control. Over in Rails core, Active Support is getting ahead of Ruby 4.1's plan to include `Time.rfc3339` as a default gem: the PR [4] switches the method to return a true UTC time for "Z" inputs, matching `Time.iso8601` and `Time.xmlschema`. The change drops a +00:00 fixed offset that "no test or documentation ever asserted," bringing Active Support in line with upstream. Solid Queue is also hardening its test suite against CI flakes [5], and the `fail_many_claimed` event now carries the error object so subscribers can distinguish mass failures from each other [6].

Action items

→ Review Sprockets cache config if you deploy with static assets from CI rails/sprockets [plan]
→ Test `ignore_mtime` option in your CI asset pipeline to cut cache bloat rails/sprockets [monitor]
→ Watch `Time.rfc3339` change if you parse UTC timestamps in tests or docs rails/rails [monitor]
→ If you rely on `fail_many_claimed` events, check the new error field in Solid Queue rails/solid_queue [plan]

References

[1] Allow disabling the cache limits rails/sprockets
[2] Merge pull request #832 from byroot/disable-digest rails/sprockets
[3] Implement `ignore_mtime` option rails/sprockets
[4] Return a UTC time from `Time.rfc3339` for "Z" inputs ↗ rails/rails
[5] Give in-flight jobs enough pause to survive slow shutdowns in tests ↗ rails/solid_queue
[6] Include the error in fail_many_claimed events and document recovery ↗ rails/solid_queue

Quick answers

What shipped in Rails on August 19, 2026?: Sprockets just shipped an escape hatch for environments where the cache cleaner costs more than the cache it protects. In total, 32 commits and 17 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Rails on August 19, 2026?: 9 developers shipped this update, including tristan-f-r, yahonda, Kenta Ishizaki, Xavier Noria, Saidbek, wintan1418, Amanda Perino, and Jean Boussier, and 1 more.
What were the notable Rails updates?: Allow disabling the cache limits, Merge pull request #832 from byroot/disable-digest, and Implement `ignore_mtime` option.

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