Sidekiq: Sidekiq 5.0 meta-issue

[mperham]

Happy 2017! 🍰 🎉

Sidekiq 5.0 should be available in February April.

• [x] [Redesign dispatch for Rails 5](/mperham/sidekiq/issues/3235)
• [x] [Don't load delay extensions by default](/mperham/sidekiq/issues/3299)
• [x] Use TSTP for quiet signal going forward
• [x] Update supported Ruby and Rails versions
• [x] [Make Web UI RTL-friendly](/mperham/sidekiq/issues/3381)
• [x] Graceful handling of malformed job payloads

Release notes here.

Other ideas? Questions? Chime in.

[Nowaker]

.delay gone, good riddance. I still remember several hours lost because sidekiq_options didn't work there. :+1:

[mperham]

The 5-0 branch is feature complete now. You can test it like so:

gem 'sidekiq', github: 'mperham/sidekiq', branch: '5-0'

[mperham]

5.0 beta 3 has been released, use it like so:

gem 'sidekiq', '5.0.0.beta3'

Read the release notes if something doesn't work!

[mperham]

5-0 will be merged on Friday. If you are riding on master today, you should test 5-0 out.

[mperham]

master is now 5.0. Branch 4.x created to handle backported fixes.

🍰 🎆