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Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails. Let’s dive in.

Development of Rails 8.0 starts now 🎉
This week marks the official start of Rails 8.0 development. Stay tuned for more updates on Rails 8.0 features and changes ahead 🎉.

Rails 8 will target Ruby 3.3+ only for new apps

Add Kamal by default to Rails 8
This PR adds Kamal for deployment by default, which includes generating a Rails-specific config/deploy.yml. This can be skipped using --skip-kamal. Check out more about Kamal on its official site.

Add support for :if_not_exists and :force options to create_schema
This change adds missing support for :if_not_exists and :force options to create_schema.

7.0.8.2 and 7.1.3.3 have been released
Two new Rails version have been released upgrading Trix to 2.1.1 to fix CVE-2024-34341

Check here for more details - XSS Vulnerabilities in Trix Editor

Fix ActiveRecord::Relation#touch_all with custom attribute aliased as attribute for update
Before this change if we had something like

create_table :users do |t|
  t.timestamp :legacy_updated_at
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  alias_attribute :updated_at, :legacy_updated_at
end

User.touch_all(:updated_at)

then ActiveRecord would not resolve updated_at to its alias correctly and resulted to a query that updates the same column twice. This PR fixes the behavior to correctly resolve the alias.

Support duration in ActiveSupport::XmlMini
Before this change ActiveSupport::XmlMini could not handle duration type in XML, which is one of the primitive data type. This PR adds support for duration type using ActiveSupport::Duration.

Support touch_all in batches
This change adds support for touch_all in batches. This is similarly supported for update_all/delete_all/etc)

  Post.in_batches.touch_all

You can view the whole list of changes here.
We had 27 contributors to the Rails codebase this past week!

Until next time!

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