Hi everyone,

I am happy to announce that Rails 4.2.8.rc1 has been released.

If no regressions are found, expect the final release on Wednesday, February 15, 2017. If you find one, please open an issue on GitHub and mention me (@rafaelfranca) on it, so that we can fix it before the final release.

CHANGES since 4.2.7.1

To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub:

• Action Mailer CHANGELOG
• Action Pack CHANGELOG
• Action View CHANGELOG
• Active Job CHANGELOG
• Active Model CHANGELOG
• Active Record CHANGELOG
• Active Support CHANGELOG
• Railties CHANGELOG

Full listing

To see the full list of changes, check out all the commits on GitHub.

SHA-1

If you’d like to verify that your gem is the same as the one I’ve uploaded, please use these SHA-1 hashes.

Here are the checksums for 4.2.8.rc1:

$ shasum *-4.2.8.rc1.gem
cb6ffe33124a95c84598437c3698f016acc30b01  actionmailer-4.2.8.rc1.gem
ed4c50bf4418ec6b82bf17cf41fcd8dd28a4c423  actionpack-4.2.8.rc1.gem
7ccc80e22af39350f0f2d8055663d1adb2320caa  actionview-4.2.8.rc1.gem
7dc4923abcbf3587c5aa6d6cf425ad0e3f69877e  activejob-4.2.8.rc1.gem
b97863c12a06beca60fe0f1e5760fd2e21f0d40d  activemodel-4.2.8.rc1.gem
40e7d2c780f8b0e70adb2a725fb773648539b4fe  activerecord-4.2.8.rc1.gem
edc12197ae5d6e13d6618c40143196ddd5debadd  activesupport-4.2.8.rc1.gem
04849eea3d5c5f20aa51b6dbd31357c9328d10ab  rails-4.2.8.rc1.gem
e05dce3a6c14b36b35bf1ea13433677e867602ae  railties-4.2.8.rc1.gem

As always, huge thanks to the many contributors who helped with this release.