Rails 8.1 Beta 1: Job continuations, structured events, local CI

Rails 8.1 represents the work of over 500 contributors across 2500 commits in the last ten months since our last major release, and we’re thrilled to time the first beta release with the first day of Rails World. Here are a few of the highlights: Active Job Continuations Long-running jobs can now be broken into discrete steps that allow execution to continue from the last completed step rather than the beginning after a restart. This is especially helpful when doing deploys with Kamal, which will only give job-running containers thirty seconds to shut down by default.