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Another huge upgrade to Rails with again close to 100 changes, additions, and tweaks. Most importantly are the new faster development environment that caches the framework and lets the application reload under both WEBrick and Fast CGI. Major is also the new breakpoints that allows you to inspect an application during execution, change the model, and resume. Additionally, we got a whole new way to do validations that extends the domain language of Rails with a wide range of new words.

The changelogs are so long I thought I'd just link to them this time:

• Rails 0.9.0
• Action Pack 1.0.0
• Active Record 1.2.0
• Action Mailer 0.5.0

But more importantly:

• Learn how to upgrade from 0.8.5 to 0.9.0 (it's not trivial)
• ...or check the book about 0.9 features

This massive release would never have been possible without the killer community hanging out at #rubyonrails. Known by such handles as noradio, xal, flgr, htonl, bitsweat, and many, many more, they really showed what a dedicated group of programmers are capable of. I'm deeply honored to be amongst such wonderful people. Thanks, guys!