38 awesome people contributed to Rails this week. We also have 5 first time committers. Welcome aboard! Keep an eye on the issue tracker if you are also interested in contributing.
Action Cable will have its own NPM package and will be released as part of the Rails release system. Action Cable JavaScript assets can now be used outside of the Rails world too!
Using ActiveRecord::Base#attribute to declare an attribute with a default value on a model where the attribute was not backed by the database would raise a NotImplementedError when model#save was called. This commit fixed the issue by defining a type_cast method.