Rails 8.1.0.beta1 (September 04, 2025)

• Remove deprecated :azure storage service.

  Rafael Mendonça França

• Remove unnecessary calls to the GCP metadata server.

  Calling Google::Auth.get_application_default triggers an explicit call to the metadata server - given it was being called for significant number of file operations, it can lead to considerable tail latencies and even metadata server overloads. Instead, it's preferable (and significantly more efficient) that applications use:

  Google::Apis::RequestOptions.default.authorization = Google::Auth.get_application_default(...)

  In the cases applications do not set that, the GCP libraries automatically determine credentials.

  This also enables using credentials other than those of the associated GCP service account like when using impersonation.

  Alex Coomans

• Direct upload progress accounts for server processing time.

  Jeremy Daer

• Delegate ActiveStorage::Filename#to_str to #to_s

  Supports checking String equality:

  filename = ActiveStorage::Filename.new("file.txt")
  filename == "file.txt" # => true
  filename in "file.txt" # => true
  "file.txt" == filename # => true

  Sean Doyle

• Add support for alternative MD5 implementation through config.active_storage.checksum_implementation.

  Also automatically degrade to using the slower Digest::MD5 implementation if OpenSSL::Digest::MD5 is found to be disabled because of OpenSSL FIPS mode.

  Matt Pasquini, Jean Boussier

• A Blob will no longer autosave associated Attachment.

  This fixes an issue where a record with an attachment would have its dirty attributes reset, preventing your after commit callbacks on that record to behave as expected.

  Note that this change doesn't require any changes on your application and is supposed to be internal. Active Storage Attachment will continue to be autosaved (through a different relation).

  Edouard-chin

Please check [8-0-stable]) for previous changes.