activeadmin-quill_editor/docs/activeadmin-4-changelog.md

ActiveAdmin v4.0.0 Beta Changelog

This document contains all the changes from ActiveAdmin v4.0.0 beta releases.

Source: https://github.com/activeadmin/activeadmin/releases

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v4.0.0.beta20 (2025-01-27)

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Drop support for Rails 7.0 and 7.1 #8908

Template Updates 📝

• Link to parent menu item #8225

Enhancements ✨

• resource: allow resource_class to be passed as a String #8848
• Remove horizontal padding on comments pagination #8925
• Add page anchor to comments form view #8926
• Fix vertical spacing on has-many forms #8927
• Remove no-wrap from table columns #8928

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Restore pointer cursor on eligible buttons #8878
• Ignore extra bundler output when DEBUG is set #8895

Other Changes 🛠

• Test supported Rails versions against Ruby 4.0 #8898

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta19...v4.0.0.beta20

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v4.0.0.beta19 (2024-11-20)

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Bump tailwind from 3.4.18 to 4.1.17 #8709

Template Updates 📝

• Bump tailwind from 3.4.18 to 4.1.17 #8709

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Remove self-reference to ActiveAdmin node package #8847

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta18...v4.0.0.beta19

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v4.0.0.beta18 (2024-11-01)

Enhancements ✨

• Add Rails 8.1.0 compatibility #8837

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta17...v4.0.0.beta18

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v4.0.0.beta17 (2024-10-21)

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Preserve custom string labels in AttributesTable headers #8815

Enhancements ✨

• Update French locales #8770
• Improve text color contrast #8535
• Remove unnecessary base CSS styles #8803
• Update dark mode CSS styles #8809

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta16...v4.0.0.beta17

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v4.0.0.beta16 (2024-07-23)

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Drop Ruby 3.1 and update dependencies #8760
• Remove Tabs component #8762

Template Updates 📝

• Remove frozen_string_literal comment from .arb templates #8600

Enhancements ✨

• Bump Formtastic to 5.0 and remove legacy code #8613
• Add Polish pagination entries translations #8636
• Support sortable argument in id_column #8639
• Support title for id_column #8641
• Update pt-BR translations #8679
• Upgrade Flowbite dependency to v3.1.2 #8692
• Add some :uk locales #8732

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Fix deprecation warning in Ruby 3.4 #8593
• Fix circular require warning in belongs_to.rb #8599
• Fix pagination truncate translation key #8678
• Fix typo in batch_actions locale translation key #8712
• Enhance main navbar to improve bouncing on macOS #8727
• Remove double bottom border on last table row #8761

Other Changes 🛠

• Normalize i18n locale files #8715

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta15...v4.0.0.beta16

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v4.0.0.beta15 (2024-12-07)

Template Updates 📝

• Use ESM in tailwind config template #8568

Enhancements ✨

• Update Korean locale with new translations #8554
• Update Arabic locale translations #8555
• Fix an issue with Arabic translation #8557
• Update Russian locale with new translations #8558

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta14...v4.0.0.beta15

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v4.0.0.beta14 (2024-11-25)

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Drop support for Rails 6.1 #8449
• Drop Ruby 3.0 compatibility #8489

Enhancements ✨

• Add polish translations for search status #8487
• Update zh-TW & ja locale with new v4 keys #8521
• Update zh-CN locale with new v4 keys #8546
• Improve v3 docs regarding compatibility with vite_rails #8549
• Remove redundant safe navigation operator #8528
• Use safe navigation for pundit_default_policy #8530
• Use safe navigation operator in layout helper #8533

Bug Fixes 🐛

• run update_resource inside a transaction to avoid autosaving relationships through assign_attributes when the record is invalid #7437
• Fix attributes passed to form has_many not being set on new record form items #8550
• Convert plugin.js to ESM because package.json has type set to module #8536

Other Changes 🛠

• Migrate docs to VitePress #8194

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta13...v4.0.0.beta14

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v4.0.0.beta13 (2024-09-24)

Enhancements ✨

• Add polish translations for v4 keys #8481
• Add spanish translations for v4 keys #8483
• Prefer require_relative for internal requires #8482

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta12...v4.0.0.beta13

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v4.0.0.beta12 (2024-09-15)

Enhancements ✨

• Bump inherited_resources requirement to ~> 2.0 #8477

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta11...v4.0.0.beta12

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v4.0.0.beta11 (2024-08-31)

Enhancements ✨

• Unify specifying label in attributes_table component #8458
• Optimize count query for pagination_total: false option #6911
• Use attribute_types instead of columns_hash to determine type #8457

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Use consistent text-like inputs selector list for CSS styles #8456

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta10...v4.0.0.beta11

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v4.0.0.beta10 (2024-08-24)

Template Updates 📝

• Add host app's layouts/active_admin to tailwind config #8430

Enhancements ✨

• Support async_count for scopes #8394
• Add tbody_html and row_html options to TableFor and IndexAsTable #8423

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Improve form f.inputs attributes rendering #8439, #8448
• Fix batch action with partial and no confirm doesn't submit the form on click #8442

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta9...v4.0.0.beta10

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v4.0.0.beta9 (2024-08-04)

Template Updates 📝

• Add accessible names for navigation buttons #8338

Enhancements ✨

• Better implementation of counter-cache-column check #8411

Other Changes 🛠

• Fix url redirects in documentation #8407

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta8...v4.0.0.beta9

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v4.0.0.beta8 (2024-07-27)

Enhancements ✨

• Update Catalan translation #8356
• Allow batch actions without a confirmation dialog #8389
• Fix styles for select[multiple] form controls #8406

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta7...v4.0.0.beta8

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v4.0.0.beta7 (2024-05-31)

Enhancements ✨

• Update de locale with new v4 keys #8325
• Remove de-CH locale #8326

Security Fixes 🔒

• Fix potential XSS issue when rendering form legends #8348

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta6...v4.0.0.beta7

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v4.0.0.beta6 (2024-05-03)

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Drop Ruby 2.7 support #8259

Template Updates 📝

• Use Tailwind's darkMode selector strategy #8264

Enhancements ✨

• Update zh-CN locale with new v4 keys #8284
• Update zh-TW locale with new v4 keys #8297

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Add csv dependency to fix Ruby 3.3 warning #8303

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta5...v4.0.0.beta6

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v4.0.0.beta5 (2024-02-14)

Enhancements ✨

• Improve Italian translation #8235
• Bump flowbite to v2.3.0 #8257

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Use an anchor for tabs component toggle #8242

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta4...v4.0.0.beta5

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v4.0.0.beta4 (2024-01-17)

Template Updates 📝

• Move pagination translations to active_admin scope #8218

Enhancements ✨

• Vendor rails-ujs ESM JS #8217
• Include vendor JS files in NPM package #8221
• Remove i18n-tasks.yml from gem release #8227
• Make importmap-rails optional #8228
• Exclude primary key from generated resource #8232
• Make NPM package compatible with tools like vite_rails #8234

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Ensure form presenter is applied on create/update actions #8238

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta3...v4.0.0.beta4

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v4.0.0.beta3 (2024-01-06)

• Include additional files in gem release #8212

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta2...v4.0.0.beta3

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v4.0.0.beta2 (2024-01-06)

• Include vendor directory in gem release #8211

Full Changelog: v4.0.0.beta1...v4.0.0.beta2

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v4.0.0.beta1 (2024-01-06)

First beta release of ActiveAdmin v4!

This release represents a complete redesign using TailwindCSS with mobile web, dark mode and RTL support and a default, customizable theme through partials.

Key Features

• TailwindCSS: Complete migration to TailwindCSS
• Mobile Support: Fully responsive design
• Dark Mode: Built-in dark mode support
• RTL Support: Right-to-left language support
• ESM JavaScript: Modern ES modules
• importmap-rails: Uses importmap-rails for JS assets
• Customizable Theme: Theme customization through partials

Breaking Changes 🚨

• Requires cssbundling-rails and importmap-rails
• Removed all SCSS files (sassc-rails dependency removed)
• Complete UI/UX redesign

Major Changes

• Prep Tailwind CSS migration (multiple PRs: #8035, #8036, #8037, #8116, #8122, #8139, #8155, #8170)
• Remove old, since replaced JS #8040
• Replace html/assets related configs with simple partials #8156
• Remove sassc-rails and all SCSS files #8157
• Extract headers, menu and sidebar components to partials #8162
• Use ES format for JS #8171
• Extract layout and pages to partials #8172
• Use importmap-rails for JS assets #8186
• Move kaminari templates to active_admin folder #8190
• Improve RTL support all around #8196
• Migrate view helpers to app/helpers path #8202

Enhancements ✨

• Provide detail in DB statement timeout error for filters #8117
• Use active_admin_authorization as Ransack auth_object option #8143
• Update FR locales #8193
• Update nl.yml for v4 #8195

Other Changes 🛠

• Introduce RuboCop Performance #8024
• Remove multiline ternary operator #8034
• Prefer match? over =~ to avoid MatchData #8138

Full Changelog: v3.2.0...v4.0.0.beta1

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Summary

Minimum Requirements (as of v4.0.0.beta20):

• Rails 7.2+
• Ruby 3.2+
• cssbundling-rails
• importmap-rails (optional as of beta4)

Key Migration Path: The v4.0.0 beta series represents a complete redesign of ActiveAdmin using TailwindCSS. The migration requires:

1. Installing cssbundling-rails and configuring TailwindCSS
2. Installing importmap-rails (optional since beta4)
3. Running the assets generator
4. Updating custom CSS/JS from the old SCSS/jQuery patterns
5. Reviewing the Upgrading guide

See demo app for a working example.