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diff --git a/guides/source/4_0_release_notes.md b/guides/source/4_0_release_notes.md index ecb8dd04f5..b4442130ac 100644 --- a/guides/source/4_0_release_notes.md +++ b/guides/source/4_0_release_notes.md @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Highlights in Rails 4.0: (WIP) * Strong Parameters * Queue API * Caching Improvements +* ActionController::Live These release notes cover the major changes, but do not include each bug-fix and changes. If you want to see everything, check out the [list of commits](https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/master) in the main Rails repository on GitHub. @@ -69,6 +70,20 @@ $ ruby /path/to/rails/railties/bin/rails new myapp --dev Major Features -------------- +Moved to a Plugin +----------------- + +With Rails 4 several pieces have been extracted. While Rails won't ship with these features anymore, +you can simply add the extracted plugin to your `Gemfile` to bring the functionality back. + +* Hash-based & Dynamic finder methods ([Github](https://github.com/rails/activerecord-deprecated_finders)) +* Mass assignment protection in Active Record models ([Github](https://github.com/rails/protected_attributes), [Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7251)) +* ActiveRecord::SessionStore ([Github](https://github.com/rails/activerecord-session_store), [Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7436)) +* Active Record Observers ([Github](https://github.com/rails/rails-observers), [Commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/39e85b3b90c58449164673909a6f1893cba290b2)) +* Active Resource ([Github](https://github.com/rails/activeresource), [Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/572), [Blog](http://yetimedia.tumblr.com/post/35233051627/activeresource-is-dead-long-live-activeresource)) +* Action Caching ([Github](https://github.com/rails/actionpack-action_caching), [Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7833)) +* Page Caching ([Github](https://github.com/rails/actionpack-page_caching), [Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7833)) + Documentation ------------- @@ -85,7 +100,7 @@ Railties * Add `.rake` to list of file extensions included by `rake notes` and `rake notes:custom`. -* New test locations `test/models`, `test/helpers`, `test/controllers`, and `test/mailers`. Corresponding rake tasks added as well. +* New test locations `test/models`, `test/helpers`, `test/controllers`, and `test/mailers`. Corresponding rake tasks added as well. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7878)) * Set a different cache per environment for assets pipeline through `config.assets.cache`. @@ -167,7 +182,7 @@ Action Mailer * Raise an `ActionView::MissingTemplate` exception when no implicit template could be found. -* Asynchronously send messages via the Rails Queue. +* Asynchronously send messages via the Rails Queue. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/6839)) * Delivery Options (such as SMTP Settings) can now be set dynamically per mailer action. @@ -197,6 +212,8 @@ Action Pack If you add the above code, you can use `<%= error %>` in an erb, and `redirect_to /foo, :error => 'message'` in a controller. +* Encrypted Cookies + Sign using Derived Keys. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/8112)) + * Remove Active Model dependency from Action Pack. * Support unicode characters in routes. Route will be automatically escaped, so instead of manually escaping: @@ -294,6 +311,8 @@ Action Pack * Show routes in exception page while debugging a `RoutingError` in development. +* Helper methods for HTML5 inputs. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/6359)) + * Include `mounted_helpers` (helpers for accessing mounted engines) in `ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest` by default. * Added `ActionDispatch::SSL` middleware that when included force all the requests to be under HTTPS protocol. @@ -577,7 +596,7 @@ Active Record store :settings, accessors: [ :color, :homepage ], coder: JSON ``` -* `mysql` and `mysql2` connections will set `SQL_MODE=STRICT_ALL_TABLES` by default to avoid silent data loss. This can be disabled by specifying `strict: false` in `config/database.yml`. +* `mysql` and `mysql2` connections will set `SQL_MODE=STRICT_ALL_TABLES` by default to avoid silent data loss. This can be disabled by specifying `strict: false` in `config/database.yml`. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/6069)) * Added default order to `ActiveRecord::Base#first` to assure consistent results among different database engines. Introduced `ActiveRecord::Base#take` as a replacement to the old behavior. @@ -614,7 +633,7 @@ Active Record * Remove IdentityMap - IdentityMap has never graduated to be an "enabled-by-default" feature, due to some inconsistencies with associations, as described in this [commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/302c912bf6bcd0fa200d964ec2dc4a44abe328a6). Hence the removal from the codebase, until such issues are fixed. -* Added a feature to dump/load internal state of `SchemaCache` instance because we want to boot more quickly when we have many models. +* Added a feature to dump/load internal state of `SchemaCache` instance because we want to boot more quickly when we have many models. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/5162)) ```ruby # execute rake task. @@ -685,6 +704,8 @@ Active Record * PostgreSQL hstore types are automatically deserialized from the database. +* Support for array datatype in PostgreSQL. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7547)) + * Added `#update_columns` method which updates the attributes from the passed-in hash without calling save, hence skipping validations and callbacks. `ActiveRecordError` will be raised when called on new objects or when at least one of the attributes is marked as read only. ```ruby @@ -819,7 +840,7 @@ Active Model * `ConfirmationValidator` error messages will attach to `:#{attribute}_confirmation` instead of `attribute`. -* Added `ActiveModel::Model`, a mixin to make Ruby objects work with Action Pack out of the box. +* Added `ActiveModel::Model`, a mixin to make Ruby objects work with Action Pack out of the box. ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/5253)) * `ActiveModel::Errors#to_json` supports a new parameter `:full_messages`. |