$ ls elixir/reviews/ # the step-back reads
Elixir & Phoenix in review
One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.
Sep 14–20, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Comments land in the Elixir AST
The formatter now attaches comments to AST nodes, with no public API yet; Ecto and LiveView patch releases close out the week.
Sep 7–13, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
LiveView flash tokens verified 1000x too long
Phoenix.Token.verify/4 expected seconds, but the LiveView flash check passed :timer.seconds(60), so sessions stayed valid for 60000 secon...
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 weekly
Phoenix drops Ecto from phx.new.web default
Elixir core also reworks the test manifest for parameterized runs and inlines Calendar.ISO parsing heads.
Aug 24–30, 2026 weekly
Phoenix and LiveView tighten resume and task lifecycle, Elixir culls map lookup waste
Phoenix and LiveView shored up two failure paths users hit in the wild, while Elixir cut repeated map and charlist work that showed up in...
Aug 1–31, 2026 monthly
Elixir core tuning, Ecto breaking change, LiveView patches dominate August
August saw Elixir's compiler and runtime lean out, Ecto ship a breaking DateTime cast change, and Phoenix LiveView address a security pat...
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