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  1. A maintained fork of Paperclip

    A fork of Paperclip is being maintained.

    Mike Burns
    March 10, 2020
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    • Paperclip
    • Ruby
  2. Deprecating Paperclip

    We are deprecating Paperclip in favor of ActiveStorage. Learn what this means for you.

    Mike Burns
    May 14, 2018
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    • Paperclip
    • Ruby
  3. thoughtbot Ruby Open Source is Ready for Rails 5

    Upgrade all the things!

    Tute Costa
    July 1, 2016
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  4. Paperclip IS vulnerable to ImageTragick

    Paperclip is affected by CVE-2016–3714 if used with ImageMagick 7.0.1-0 or earlier.

    Tute Costa
    May 6, 2016
    • Security
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  5. ImageMagick vulnerability does not affect Paperclip

    There is no need to upgrade Paperclip in light of CVE-2016–3714. You may choose to upgrade ImageMagick regardless.

    Tute Costa
    May 4, 2016
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  6. Paperclip is ready for Rails 5

    We released Paperclip v5.0.0.beta1.

    Tute Costa
    March 25, 2016
    • Paperclip
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  7. Paperclip Security Release

    We released Paperclip v4.2.2 with a security fix.

    Tute Costa
    June 5, 2015
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  8. Prevent Spoofing with Paperclip

    Paperclip 4.0 and 4.1 contain security fixes to prevent spoofing. A content type or filename validation is also now required.

    Jon Yurek
    February 14, 2014
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  9. Paperclip is Going Three-Point-Oh Nelly

    The new version of your favorite file upload library, Paperclip 3.0.0, has...

    Prem Sichanugrist
    March 26, 2012
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  10. A Paperclip Refactoring Tale: Part One: Dependency Injection

    High level walk through of a paperclip feature refactor.

    Mike Burns
    September 6, 2011
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