Hey everyone, Happy Monday! Vipul here with the latest updates for This Week in Rails (from last week 😅). Let’s dive in.

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Rails 7.2 has been released with improved production defaults, Dev containers, and a new guides design. Rails 8 will use Thruster by default for better asset compression and caching. Several pull requests aim to improve performance, including faster route lookups and refined Puma configurations. Action Mailer defaults and Puma's processor detection settings have been enhanced, and tweaks for PostgreSQL extensions have been made.

Ruby on Rails — Rails 7.2 released, Thruster by default for Rails 8, new Guides PRs, and much more!