diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7235478c..a8c01ed1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # paranoia Changelog
 
+## 2.4.4
+
+* [#503](https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia/pull/503) Bump activerecord dependency for Rails 6.1
+
+  [Jörg Schiller](https://github.com/joergschiller)
+
+* [#483](https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia/pull/483) Update JRuby version to 9.2.8.0 + remove EOL Ruby 2.2 
+
+  [Uwe Kubosch](https://github.com/donv)
+
+* [#482](https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia/pull/482) Fix after_commit for Rails 6
+
+  [Ashwin Hegde](https://github.com/hashwin)
+
 ## 2.4.3
 
 * Fix deprecation message on Hash#with_indifferent_access
diff --git a/lib/paranoia.rb b/lib/paranoia.rb
index 707170db..4e1cc306 100644
--- a/lib/paranoia.rb
+++ b/lib/paranoia.rb
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ def paranoia_destroy
           next unless send(association.reflection.name)
           association.decrement_counters
         end
+        @_trigger_destroy_callback = true
         @_disable_counter_cache = false
         result
       end
@@ -121,6 +122,10 @@ def paranoia_destroy!
       raise(ActiveRecord::RecordNotDestroyed.new("Failed to destroy the record", self))
   end
 
+  def trigger_transactional_callbacks?
+    super || @_trigger_destroy_callback && paranoia_destroyed?
+  end
+
   def paranoia_delete
     raise ActiveRecord::ReadOnlyRecord, "#{self.class} is marked as readonly" if readonly?
     if persisted?
@@ -351,7 +356,7 @@ class AssociationNotSoftDestroyedValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
       def validate_each(record, attribute, value)
         # if association is soft destroyed, add an error
         if value.present? && value.paranoia_destroyed?
-          record.errors[attribute] << 'has been soft-deleted'
+          record.errors.add(attribute, 'has been soft-deleted')
         end
       end
     end
diff --git a/paranoia.gemspec b/paranoia.gemspec
index 9e401e99..0dc3d644 100644
--- a/paranoia.gemspec
+++ b/paranoia.gemspec
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.license     = 'MIT'
   s.summary     = "Paranoia is a re-implementation of acts_as_paranoid for Rails 3, 4, and 5, using much, much, much less code."
   s.description = <<-DSC
-    Paranoia is a re-implementation of acts_as_paranoid for Rails 3, 4, and 5,
+    Paranoia is a re-implementation of acts_as_paranoid for Rails 4, 5, and 6,
     using much, much, much less code. You would use either plugin / gem if you
     wished that when you called destroy on an Active Record object that it
     didn't actually destroy it, but just "hid" the record. Paranoia does this
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.required_ruby_version = '>= 2.0'
 
-  s.add_dependency 'activerecord', '>= 4.0', '< 6.1'
+  s.add_dependency 'activerecord', '>= 4.0', '< 6.2'
 
   s.add_development_dependency "bundler", ">= 1.0.0"
   s.add_development_dependency "rake"
diff --git a/test/paranoia_test.rb b/test/paranoia_test.rb
index 978843f3..7b4da94e 100644
--- a/test/paranoia_test.rb
+++ b/test/paranoia_test.rb
@@ -137,6 +137,21 @@ def test_destroy_behavior_for_plain_models_callbacks
     assert model.instance_variable_get(:@after_commit_callback_called)
   end
 
+  def test_destroy_behavior_for_freshly_loaded_plain_models_callbacks
+    model = CallbackModel.new
+    model.save
+
+    model = CallbackModel.find(model.id)
+    model.destroy
+
+    assert_nil model.instance_variable_get(:@update_callback_called)
+    assert_nil model.instance_variable_get(:@save_callback_called)
+    assert_nil model.instance_variable_get(:@validate_called)
+
+    assert model.instance_variable_get(:@destroy_callback_called)
+    assert model.instance_variable_get(:@after_destroy_callback_called)
+    assert model.instance_variable_get(:@after_commit_callback_called)
+  end
 
   def test_delete_behavior_for_plain_models_callbacks
     model = CallbackModel.new