Elixir & Phoenix
LiveView async fixes, Elixir docs gains
Phoenix LiveView tightened its async handling with three fixes for correctness and allocation, while Elixir landed small documentation improvements.
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Elixir & Phoenix
LiveView flash age 1000x too long, plus IEx autocomplete crash fix
Two fixes land in phoenix_live_view and elixir, correcting a 1000x flash token age error, non-idempotent disconnected callbacks, an IEx crash on incomplete UTF-8, and Ecto's exists semantics.
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Elixir fixes unary operator precedence with do-end blocks
Elixir's parser now resolves a precedence bug when unary operators meet do-end blocks, changing how some expressions compile.
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Phoenix CI drops Process.sleep blind waits; Elixir fixes Hex version check
Phoenix integration tests no longer sleep 1500ms between generators, and Elixir fixes a swapped condition in its Hex version check.
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Elixir date parsing loses guarded helpers
Elixir's standard library trims date parsing overhead and LiveView cleans up dead code, while Ecto shifts to codepoint counting.
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Elixir reworks test manifest for parameterized failures
A fix for parameterized test manifests changes how failures are tracked, ensuring all variants get rerun when any single one fails.
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Phoenix phx.new.web drops Ecto by default
The phx.new.web generator now passes --no-ecto by default, fixing generation of invalid Repo and DataCase references for bare web projects.
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Phoenix adds CI-friendly test summary formatter
Phoenix ships a new SummaryFormatter that surfaces integration test durations in CI without sacrificing async concurrency.
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U+055F joins the case ignorable set
Elixir now skips the Armenian abbreviation mark in Greek final sigma scans, fixing String.downcase/2 and String.capitalize/2 edge cases.
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Docs clarify Mix format plugin file-type behavior
New Mix format documentation explains how plugins handle .ex and .exs files, addressing a long-standing point of confusion.
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Phoenix defaults to Elixir's built-in JSON, Elixir patches charlist recursion
Elixir 1.18.5 and 1.19.6 patch a charlist recursion vulnerability, and Phoenix moves closer to dropping Jason entirely.
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LIVE VIEW 1.2.11 SHIPS, PHX RELEASE SLIMS DOWN
Phoenix LiveView dropped a patch release overnight that kills stale diffs and cancels orphaned tasks, while Phoenix's release generator just got smarter about picking Docker images.
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Elixir & Phoenix
ECT0 FIXES WARNINGS-AS-ERRORS TYPO
Ecto's warnings-as-errors setup was silently broken by a typo, and the fix is now in.
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Phoenix ships emergency fix for Chrome tab resume
Phoenix just dropped v1.8.13 as a patch to reconnect LiveView sockets when Chrome 149+ resumes tabs, and it's the only release that matters today.
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LiveView crash fix lands as Elixir corrects Greek casing
Phoenix LiveView patches a stale-diff crash while Elixir fixes final sigma casing in Greek strings.
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ELIXIR CORE CUTS MAP LOOKUP WASTE
Two pull requests into Elixir's type system are eliminating needless rebuilds that could slow pattern matching in core compiler workflows.
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JOSE VALIM FIXES THE CLASUE BUG
Jose Valim shipped two refactors plus the actual fix for that `none` clause compiler issue, and a UTC fast path in DateTime could save you a TZ DB lookup.
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Elixir trims trailing whitespace with zero-cost slicing
Elixir's trim_trailing/1 just got a whole lot cheaper, and it's not the only performance fix in the pipeline.
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Phoenix 1.8.12 patches channel message drop
Phoenix shipped a patch release that fixes a channel bug silently dropping messages without a join_ref, and LiveView is quietly rewriting the rules of navigation.
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LIVE VIEW HOOKS GET THE ELOQUENT TREATMENT
Phoenix Live View is shipping a passel of hook and JS-client fixes today, headlined by new beforeUpdate arguments that hand you more control over a hook's lifespan.
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