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I just started learning rails...and I love it.

I am not an excellent hacker but I am learning more by the day. Ruby + Rails is very fun.

Rails is the new PHP, sigh.
Doesn't look like they've put together an official changelog yet, but the major changes off the top of my head would be jQuery, Coffeescript, sass, sprockets, css sprites, flushing & deprecation of rails 2 finders.
IMO the most important improvement is the IdentityMap
Oh, it is in finally? Exciting!
I know this isn't reddit, and I know it isn't welcome on news.yc... but

... that's what she said.

I'm very much looking forward to making use of the associations rewrite by Jon Leighton (http://jonathanleighton.com/).

Nested has-many:through relationships are a go! :)

A few niceties:

1. Console shows SQL queries right there.

2. The file_field automatically adds :multipart => true to the enclosing form.

3. Newer Migrations - There is a "change" method now which can be used to write only the "up" part of the migration and Rails will automatically reverse when a migration is rolled back.

Mountable engines seems to be major to me. I think (or hope) it will ignite a whole new slew of cool gems.
Definitely looking forward to HTTP streaming and the new SASS/JS asset handling!
anyone know how the flushing/template streaming works? Is it automatic or do I need to turn it on? How does it know when the head ends?