Hi everyone, I’m trying to find the expected or tentative release date for Rails 8. Is there an official source for this information? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
And it’s out! Rails 8 had been released
haha nice!
I have been running the beta and RC versions in production as well though. Might be worth a shot in the future.
In general new releases have been quite smooth, however some weird edge case regressions are often not found until the official release - if that worries you (and you don’t trust your test suite) then you might want to even wait for the first patch or minor version bumps.
I’ve been running the edge version and updating weekly since version 5.2. From my N=1 experience, I only stumble on 2, maybe 3, regressions per version, usually because of something weird edge case as you’ve mentioned.
I think it’s worth it considering some parts of my monolith would be very different, or would have required some major overhauls later if I didn’t have access to certain features that were only on the edge version at the time (the most prominent being delegated types)