Who contributed to Elixir & Phoenix on August 22, 2026?

3 developers shipped this update, including Daniel Kukula, Thomas Cioppettini, and asweet-confluent.

What were the notable Elixir & Phoenix updates?

Trim trailing whitespace without slicing per step (#15780), Trim trailing whitespace without slicing per step, and Fix base64 swar singleton false positive.

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Elixir trims trailing whitespace with zero-cost slicing

By RepoJournal · Filed 07:00 UTC on August 22, 2026 · About Elixir & Phoenix

3 people shipped this

Daniel Kukula @dkuku 3 cited

asweet-confluent @asweet-confluent 1 cited

Thomas Cioppettini @tomciopp

Elixir's trim_trailing/1 just got a whole lot cheaper, and it's not the only performance fix in the pipeline.

A new PR [1] from Daniel Kukula reworks String.trim_trailing/1 to avoid per-step slicing allocations, so the common case of one-byte whitespace now needs no lookahead. The follow-up notes that the approach starts to lose its edge only around 1k trailing characters [2], making it a clear win for typical strings. Meanwhile, another fix addresses a base64 SWAR singleton false positive [3], closing an edge case in the SIMD-like validation. In the Ecto world, a PR [4] sorts escaped map/struct fields to guarantee deterministic compile output, fixing builds that could produce different bytecode from the same source across compiler invocations. These are quiet, surgical improvements, but they add up to a more predictable and faster Elixir toolchain.

Action items

→ Review PR #15780 for trim_trailing/1 and test against your hot string paths elixir-lang/elixir [plan]
→ Monitor PR #15773 for base64 SWAR fix and the Ecto deterministic compile output PR elixir-ecto/ecto [monitor]

References

[1] Trim trailing whitespace without slicing per step (#15780) elixir-lang/elixir
[2] Trim trailing whitespace without slicing per step ↗ elixir-lang/elixir
[3] Fix base64 swar singleton false positive ↗ elixir-lang/elixir
[4] Sort escaped map/struct fields for deterministic compile output ↗ elixir-ecto/ecto

Quick answers

What shipped in Elixir & Phoenix on August 22, 2026?: Elixir's trim_trailing/1 just got a whole lot cheaper, and it's not the only performance fix in the pipeline. In total, 4 commits and 4 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Elixir & Phoenix on August 22, 2026?: 3 developers shipped this update, including Daniel Kukula, Thomas Cioppettini, and asweet-confluent.
What were the notable Elixir & Phoenix updates?: Trim trailing whitespace without slicing per step (#15780), Trim trailing whitespace without slicing per step, and Fix base64 swar singleton false positive.

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