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@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ Upgrading from Rails 4.1 to Rails 4.2
NOTE: This section is a work in progress.
+### Serialized attributes
+
+When assigning `nil` to a serialized attribute, it will be saved to the database
+as `NULL` instead of passing the `nil` value through the coder (e.g. `"null"`
+when using the `JSON` coder).
Upgrading from Rails 4.0 to Rails 4.1
-------------------------------------
@@ -241,6 +246,16 @@ If your application depends on one of these features, you can get them back by
adding the [`activesupport-json_encoder`](https://github.com/rails/activesupport-json_encoder)
gem to your Gemfile.
+#### JSON representation of Time objects
+
+`#as_json` for objects with time component (`Time`, `DateTime`, `ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone`)
+now returns millisecond precision by default. If you need to keep old behavior with no millisecond
+precision, set the following in an initializer:
+
+```
+ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding.time_precision = 0
+```
+
### Usage of `return` within inline callback blocks
Previously, Rails allowed inline callback blocks to use `return` this way:
@@ -434,8 +449,8 @@ string keys consistently.
### Explicit block use for `ActiveSupport::Callbacks`
-Rails 4.1 now expects an explicit block to be passed when calling
-`ActiveSupport::Callbacks.set_callback`. This change stems from
+Rails 4.1 now expects an explicit block to be passed when calling
+`ActiveSupport::Callbacks.set_callback`. This change stems from
`ActiveSupport::Callbacks` being largely rewritten for the 4.1 release.
```ruby