Will Paginate Versions Save

This release adds only minor new features, but bumps the major version number because some old functionality has been removed due to other frameworks not being maintained anymore. Namely, DataMapper and Merb integrations have been dropped since both projects haven't been maintained in a long while and it's been hard maintaining a test suite for them.

What's New

• Preserve query parameters in pagination links rendered from POST request by @mislav in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/648
• Add aria-label for previous and next page links by @hammad-Ikhlaq-7vals in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/645
  • Learn how to translate these new accessible labels in non-English applications
• Remove aria-disabled attribute from <span> element by @mislav in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/634
• Remove DataMapper integration by @orien in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/641
• Remove Merb support by @mislav in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/642

What's Changed

• Rails 7 compat in tests by @mislav in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/629
• Test against Rails 7 by @mislav in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/633
• Bump RSpec from 2.99.0 to 3.12.0 by @orien in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/640
• Remove unneeded files from the gem package by @orien in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/643
• Fix CI by @mislav in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/647

New Contributors

• @hammad-Ikhlaq-7vals made their first contribution in https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/pull/645

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/compare/v3.3.1...v4.0.0

• Accessibility fix: add the aria-disabled attribute to the pagination element marked with CSS classname "disabled".

• ActiveRecord: Avoid a count query in empty? #593

• Support MS SQL Server #540

• Avoid Ruby 2.7 warnings about keyword arguments #609

• Breaking: drop Ruby 1.9 compatibility

• Ensure PageNumber is serialized as JSON number

• Performance: avoid extending Numeric with PageNumber logic

  BREAKING: Integer === page_number is no longer true.

• Make pagination markup more accessible:

  • container div now has role="navigation";
  • container div now has aria-label="Pagination", translatable via will_paginate.container_aria_label i18n key;
  • individual page links now have aria-label="Page {N}", translatable via will_paginate.page_aria_label i18n key;
  • current page now has aria-current="page".

• Add support for will_paginate view helpers in Hanami View

• Add total_entries support for Mongoid

• Rails: avoid circular require warning

• Rails: fix serving HTTP 404s for WillPaginate::InvalidPage exceptions

• Avoid warnings on Ruby 2.7

• Rails 5.2.2.1 & 6.0.0 compatibility

Reference Integer instead of Fixnum to avoid Ruby 2.4 deprecation warning.

• No longer generates <a rel="start"> for first page link since "start" is an invalid rel value

• Avoid Rails 5 deprecation warning about original_exception
• No longer generates <a rel="start"> for first page link since "start" is an invalid rel value