Rails 5 bump

rubyonrails-core
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Hi rails team,

will there be a rails 5.2.4.1 upgrade anytime soon? There is one fix in this comparison, which we would like to have in 5.2 as upgrade to 6 takes a bit longer :frowning:

https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v5.2.4.1…5-2-stable

It would be cool to know a timeline for this.

Thanks

Lutz

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Hi Lutz,

Based on the maintenance policy (https://guides.rubyonrails.org/maintenance_policy.html) there probably won’t be another 5.2.x which contains those bug fixes.

I suggest you to point your Gemfile to 5-2-stable instead while you’re working on upgrading to 6.0.

Thank you,

Prem

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Hi Prem,

thank you very much for your reply.

Is this an official statement or more an interpretation of the MaintenancePolicy.

I am askign, because I would see it a bit differently. With rails 5.2.4.1, there was a HotFix change, which lead to certain tests for the rails framework to be broken. I mean Specifically this change: https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/v5.2.4…v5.2.4.1

And there is a followup change to fix the ActionController::TestSession as this behaves differently in 5.2.4.1 now. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/13a07268160c1093d4b0ff40e45e487d635fa6b9

In 5-2-stable there is a fix for this included, and I really question, why this does not warrant a new 5.2.x version.

I would love to hear more opinions here.

Thanks

Lutz