This Week in Rails

October 24, 2025

Rails 8.1 released!

Hi, Emmanuel Hayford here. This one will be quick!

Two days ago, Rails 8.1 was released! Rails 8.1 comes with a lot of rad features. Among them are Active Job Continuations, Structured Event Reporting, Local CI, Markdown Rendering, and a ton more! You can read details about this release or check the release notes. If you want to see the commits that make up 8.1, you can check them out.

You can view the whole list of changes here. We had 40 contributors to the Rails codebase this past week!

Enjoy your weekend!

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