The release of 1.0 is near upon us! It has been a long time in the
making, involved a heroic final sprint at RubyConf by the core team,
and is a testament to how it''s all been coming together over the last
months. Almost three hundred bug fixes, enhancements, and new features
have been introduced since 0.13.1 saw the light of day three months
ago. That''s on average three per day. So it''s not been a while
because
of slacking off.
But with all these changes, we want to allow for an extended
release-candidate phase before we declare 1.0 a reality. So from today
you can get the 1.0 RC 2, which is packaged as version 0.14.1 in the
gems.
Over the next two weeks or so, we''re very interested in hearing about
bugs and we''ll likely push out a few more release candidates as more
and more fixes go in. That said, we can''t fix it all and we surely
can''t process all the pending feature enhancements for 1.0. So
don''t
expect to see an empty Pending Patches or Faults lists. Our main
objective is to stamp out the "heinous" bugs: those that significantly
affect the many or those that dangerously affect the few.
Read the full release notes:
http://documentation.rubyonrails.com/release_notes/rc2.html
Upgrading from 0.13.1 to 1.0:
http://documentation.rubyonrails.com/release_notes/upgrading_from_0131_to_10.html
(The main gem server is pretty over-worked, you may want to do gem
install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.org
--include-dependencies to offload it a bit)
--
David Heinemeier Hansson
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