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title: Paperclip is ready for Rails 5
teaser: We released Paperclip v5.0.0.beta1.
tags: paperclip,open source
author: Tute Costa
published_on: 2016-03-25
---

Paperclip [v5.0.0.beta1 is out]. It supports Rails 4.2 and 5 (latest beta), AWS
SDK V2, consumes less memory, and has other improvements and bug fixes.

[v5.0.0.beta1 is out]: https://rubygems.org/gems/paperclip/versions/5.0.0.beta1

It’s also smaller. While v4.3 branch takes around 2 hours to [run on CI], master
takes around half an hour. To make it so, we simplified its dependencies: v5
drops support to end-of-life’d Ruby 2, Rails 3.2 and 4.1, and to older (though
not EOL’d) AWS SDK V1. It also removes JRuby and Rubinius from the testing
matrix, as they were silently failing. If you use those versions and can’t
upgrade, you can continue to use releases 4.3 or prior. We’ll continue to apply
security and critical fixes to Paperclip v4.3 release while new features will
land in master (v5).

[run on CI]: https://travis-ci.org/thoughtbot/paperclip/builds

We extracted [paperclip-i18n], a repository exclusively for Paperclip
translations. We were making translation contributions wait alongside dozens of
other pull requests awaiting for approval that take time to review and merge.
paperclip-i18n is self-contained, small, and has a small test suite that checks
for consistency across the different translation files in no time. You can add
paperclip-i18n as a dependency for your application or copy over the related
file into your repo.

[paperclip-i18n]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip-i18n

After more than eight years since we ported the code from SVN into Git,
Paperclip continues to receive improvements from the community in the form of
questions, suggestions, documentation and code. This gem continues to make it
easy to plug in attachment behavior into Rails models, in great part thanks to
your contributions. Thank you, everyone!

If you are on Rails 4.2 or 5, upgrade to latest Paperclip version, and [let us
know] if you find any issue.

[let us know]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip