$ ls rails/reviews/ # the step-back reads
Rails in review
One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.
Sep 14–20, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories
Active Storage gets a direct-upload kill switch
Active Record also fixed Postgres primary key and schema introspection bugs that misread covering indexes and shadowed table names.
Sep 7–13, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
ActionText to_markdown delimiter escapes leave stored XSS
Mission Control 1.3.0 ships Solid Queue batch browsing, and Ractor-safety fixes land across Active Record, time zones, and the event repo...
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 weekly
Rails moves config to class attributes
A coordinated set of Rails and Propshaft patches replaces class variables with instance and singleton class attributes for thread and Rac...
Aug 24–30, 2026 weekly
Solid Queue hardens job finalization, Marcel 2 lands, ERB gains HTML-aware Herb
This week, Solid Queue stopped workers on finalization failure to clear stuck job claims, Marcel shipped its typeless Tika decoding and a...
Aug 1–31, 2026 monthly
Rails deepens Ractor safety, ships Marcel 2.0, and retires decade-old APIs
August saw Rails push forward on three fronts: a sustained campaign to make Active Record safer under Ractor and concurrency, the release...
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