---
title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 209"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 209
published_at: "2014-08-21"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/209"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 209

Rails 4.2 beta 1, incremental GC in Ruby 2.2, all change for Rack, and more.[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/209)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 209 — August 21, 2014

David Heinemeier Hansson[Rails 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released with Lots of New Features to Try Out](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/8/20/Rails-4-2-beta1/)DHH has written the release post for the first beta release of Rails 4.2 and covers many of the new features, such as ActiveJob, ActionMailer#deliver_later, tenderlove’s ‘Adequate Record’ optimization work, the Web Console, and more.


ruby-lang.org[Introducing An Incremental GC Algorithm to MRI 2.2](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10137)Koichi Sasada proposes introducing an incremental garbage collection algorithm in Ruby 2.2 in a bid to reduce GC pause time.


rack-core[A Change of Maintainer and Status for Rack](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rack-devel/P8oOycVBaH0/1bm4eERJWPQJ)Raggi is handing over the Rack (the Web server interface) baton to Aaron ‘tenderlove’ Patterson, but also explains Rack’s history and changing role within the Ruby ecosystem.


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Ruby News[Ruby 1.9.2-p330 Released: A Final Critical Security Release](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1.9.2-p330-released/)Extended maintenance of 1.9.2 ended on July 31st, but a critical security release for anyone still on 1.9.2 has made it out (the vulnerability is in parsing forms with URI).


Jack Hoy[I Spent 3 Days With Sandi Metz – Here’s What I Learned](http://red-badger.com/blog/2014/08/20/i-spent-3-days-with-sandi-metz-heres-what-i-learned/)What can you pick up when you spend three days training with the author of Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby?


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