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Rails Release Dates

Given recent events, it’s about time to migrate this list over and update it. So, I present the history of Rails version release dates from darkest prehistory to the present:

Date Version
7/25/04 0.5
12/13/05 1.0.0
3/22/06 1.1.0 RC1
3/28/06 1.1.0
4/06/06 1.1.1
4/09/06 1.1.2
6/28/06 1.1.3
6/30/06 1.1.4
8/09/06 1.1.5
8/10/06 1.1.6
11/23/06 1.2.0 RC1
1/05/07 1.2.0 RC2
1/18/07 1.2.0
1/18/07 1.2.1
2/06/07 1.2.2
3/14/07 1.2.3
10/05/07 1.2.4
10/12/07 1.2.5
11/24/07 1.2.6
9/30/07 2.0.0 PR (Preview Release)
11/09/07 2.0.0 RC1
11/29/07 2.0.0 RC2
12/07/07 2.0.0
12/07/07 2.0.1 (2.0 final)
12/16/07 2.0.2
5/11/08 2.0.3
9/04/08 2.0.4
10/19/08 2.0.5
5/11/08 2.1.0 RC1
5/31/08 2.1.0
9/04/08 2.1.1
10/23/08 2.1.2
10/24/08 2.2.0 (2.2 RC1)
11/14/08 2.2.1 (2.2 RC2)
11/21/08 2.2.2
2/1/09 2.3.0 (2.3 RC1)
3/5/09 2.3.1 (2.3 RC2)
3/15/09 2.3.2
3/18/09 2.3.2.1
7/15/09 2.3.3
7/18/09 2.3.3.1
9/03/09 2.3.4
11/26/09 2.3.5
5/23/10 2.3.6
5/24/10 2.3.7
5/25/10 2.3.8
2/04/10 3.0.0.beta 1
4/01/10 3.0.0.beta 2
4/13/10 3.0.0.beta 3

Comments

The date format used in table above is terrible, it took me more the 30seconds to figure out what they mean (and i’m in Canada).
I am willing to bet in europe or asia hardly anyone will be able to decipher them properly.
That is why there is an international date standard: ISO-8601 (yyyy-mm-dd)
see: 8601 on wikipedia

This is a US-based site, writing in American English for a predominantly US audience. I’m fully aware of ISO-8601, but I choose not to use it in plain English discourse.

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