1.3.0

Released on 2016-06-21

Changes

Type: enhancement
Tool: EEx
Module: EEx.Engine
Description: Support an `init/1` function in engines that will return the initial buffer (defaults to an empty string)
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Access
Description: Add support for `Access.all/0`, `Access.elem/1`, `Access.key/2` and `Access.key!/1` for traversing nested data structures
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Calendar
Description: Add `Calendar` and `Date`, `Time`, `NaiveDateTime` and `DateTime` types
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: CLI
Description: Add `--logger-otp-reports BOOL` and `--logger-sasl-reports BOOL` switches
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Compiler
Description: Emit a summary of compilation errors when modules are missing
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Enum
Description: Add `Enum.group_by/3` that allows developers to map on the value being grouped
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Enum
Description: Make list values in maps returned by `Enum.group_by/2` and `Enum.group_by/3` preserve the order of the input enumerable instead of reversing it.
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Enum
Description: Add `Enum.drop_every/2` that drops every `nth`, including the first one
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Exception
Description: Suggest possible functions on `UndefinedFunctionError` for existing modules
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Exception
Description: Warn if unknown fields are given to `raise/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: File
Description: Support IO devices in `File.copy/3`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: GenServer
Description: Raise a more meaningful exit if you try to `GenServer.call/3` yourself
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Inspect
Description: Support `:base` option when inspecting binaries
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: IO
Description: Add `IO.warn/2` that will print a warning message with stacktrace and notify the compiler a warning was printed (in case --warnings-as-errors was enabled)
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Support `generated: true` in quote
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Support `Kernel.pop_in/1` and `Kernel.pop_in/2` for yanking a value from a nested data structure
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Allow variable struct names when matching, for example, `%module{key: "value"} = struct`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Allow guards on the left side of `<-` in `for` and `with` special forms
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Support `else` chunks in `with`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Track `{module, function, arity}` imports and warn on unused ones when such are specified in `:only`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Add `keyword/0` and `keyword/1` built-in types to typespecs
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Add sigils for date (`~D[2015-04-17]`), time (`~T[08:00:00]`) and naive date times `~N[2015-04-17 08:00:00]`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Support `@enforce_keys` on `defstruct/1` to guarantee some keys are explicitly given when building structs
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: OptionParser
Description: Add support for `:count` switch type
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: OptionParser
Description: Add `parse!/2` and `parse_head!/2` that raise `OptionParser.ParseError` in case of errors
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Process
Description: Add `Process.sleep/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Range
Description: `Range.range?/1` now checks the validity of a range.
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Regex
Description: Support `:include_captures` in `Regex.split/3`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: String
Description: Add `String.myers_difference/2` for calculating the difference between two strings
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: System
Description: Add `System.os_time/0` and `System.os_time/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Typespec
Description: Add support for `%{required(foo) => bar}` and `%{optional(foo) => bar}` forms (Erlang 19 only)
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Typespec
Description: Add support for `@optional_callbacks` to mark certain that certain callbacks may be optionally implemented
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Typespec
Description: Introduce `%{...}` to mean any map (Erlang 19 only)
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: URI
Description: Add `URI.merge/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Version
Description: Add `Version.parse!/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Show pinned variables on failed `assert ^left = right` and `assert match?(^left, right)` assertions
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Add `ExUnit.Case.register_attribute` which allow attributes to be cleaned up whenever a test is defined
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Add `ExUnit.Case.register_test` and support the ability to tag "tests" by type. This will allow projects like QuickCheck to change the wording in formatters to say "10 properties" instead of "10 tests"
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Support diffing of values when using `==` in `assert`
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Start running tests as soon as cases are loaded. This feature is enabled by default when running tests through Mix
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Raise a straight-forward error message in case a duplicate test name is defined
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Bump the default number of max cases to double of schedulers to support both IO and CPU bound tests
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Support for named setups in `setup` and `setup_all`
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Support for bundling tests together with `describe/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: IEx
Module: IEx
Description: Add `nl/2` that loads a given module on a list of nodes
Type: enhancement
Tool: IEx
Module: IEx.Helpers
Description: No longer restart applications on `recompile/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: IEx
Module: IEx.Autocomplete
Description: Improve IEx expand to handle functions after `&`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Logger
Module: Logger
Description: Introduce `Logger.reset_metadata/0,1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Add `mix xref` and `mix compile.xref` that runs cross-reference checks, with the latter running after compilation by default
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Add `mix app.tree` and `mix deps.tree`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Add `Mix.Task.rerun/2` that reenables and re-runs a task
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Integrate `OptionParser.ParseError` into Mix, automatically converting such exceptions into `Mix.Error` and embedding the task information
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Support `@preferred_cli_env` attribute when defining tasks
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Support `mix test --raise` that will raise when a test suite fails (instead of setting the exit code to 1)
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Enable rebar3 manager by default for Hex dependencies
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Add `mix escript.install` to install escripts
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Print stacktraces for `Mix.Error` when `MIX_DEBUG=1` is set
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Add a user friendly error for merge conflicts on `mix.lock`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Track files between path dependencies. This means umbrella applications will no longer trigger full recompilation when a sibling changes. Instead it will only recompile the files affected by the sibling changes
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: No longer print every file being compiled. Instead a generic "Compiling N files (.ext)" will be printed and files will only be logged in case they take more than 5 seconds to compile. This threshold can be customized by passing the `--long-compilation-threshold` flag and the previous behaviour can be reenabled by giving `--verbose` to `mix compile`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Add `mix test --stale` that uses static analysis on source files to know which tests should run when source files changes. If any test file changes, it will also re-run. Changing a configuration file or the test helper will trigger a full recompilation
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Application
Description: Ensure `Application.spec/2` returns nil for unknown applications
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: GenServer
Description: Ensures `cast/2` returns `:ok` if locally registered process is not found
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Inspect
Description: Ensure binaries break into new lines when inspected
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Do not choke on capture operator with argument above `&191`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Raise if `defstruct` is called multiple times
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Ensure `Module.create/3` respects var/alias hygiene
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Support non-literal ranges on the right side of `in/2`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Macro
Description: Fix `Macro.to_string/1` on a call of a capture argument, for example `&(&1).(:x)`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: OptionParser
Description: Allow `OptionParser` to parse negative numbers
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Record
Description: Fix `Record.is_record/2` when dealing with non-record tuples
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: String
Description: Ensure `strip` also removes non-breaking whitespaces (and ensure `split` still does not split on them)
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: URI
Description: Use square brackets for IPv6 in `URI.to_string/1`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Improve task not found message when Mix would include the not found task as a suggestion due to different casing
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Ignore lock revision when the lock is out of date when updating Mix dependencies. Before this fix, Git tags and branches in the lock file would erroneously take higher precedence than the one in `mix.exs`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Only recompile empty Elixir files if they change instead of recompiling them on every run
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Ensure .app file is written in UTF-8 (this allows app descriptions to contain UTF-8 characters)
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix.Dep
Description: Always specify the `:env` option internally for dependencies to avoid false positives in the dependency resolution
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix.Dep
Description: Correctly detect conflict from cousin optional dependencies in the dependency resolution algorithm
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Float
Description: `Float.to_string/2` and `Float.to_char_list/2` has been soft-deprecated as Elixir will now attempt to print the shortest and most accurate representation by default. Developers can always fallback to `:erlang.float_to_binary/2` and `:erlang.float_to_list/2` if they need the previous functionality
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: `to_char_list` functions have been soft-deprecated in favor of `to_charlist`. This aligns with the naming conventions in both Erlang and Elixir
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: String
Description: The confusing `String.strip/2`, `String.lstrip/2` and `String.rstrip/2` API has been soft deprecated in favor of `String.trim/2`, `String.trim_leading/2` and `String.trim_trailing/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: String
Description: The confusing `String.ljust/3` and `String.rjust/3` API has been soft deprecated in favor of `String.pad_leading/3` and `String.pad_trailing/3`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Typespec
Description: `char_list` is soft-deprecated in favor of `charlist`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Dict
Description: `Dict` is no longer a behaviour and its functions will be deprecated in upcoming releases
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Enum
Description: Passing a dictionary to `Enum.group_by/3` is deprecated
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: `\x{H*}` in strings/sigils/charlists is deprecated
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Add deprecation for `defdelegate` list arguments and `:append_first` option. The previously undocumented and deprecated support for matching has been removed
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Warn if a variable is assigned inside `case`/`if`/etc and used outside the block
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Keyword
Description: `Keyword.size/1` is deprecated in favor of `Kernel.length/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Map
Description: `Map.size/1` is deprecated in favor of `Kernel.map_size/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Regex
Description: The option `/r` (for ungreedy) has been deprecated in favor of `/U`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Set
Description: `Set` is no longer a behaviour and its functions will be deprecated in upcoming releases
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: String
Description: `String.valid_character?/1` is deprecated in favor of `String.valid?/1` with pattern matching
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Task
Description: `Task.find/2` is deprecated in favor of explicit message matching
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: URI
Description: Passing a non-map to `URI.decode_query/2` is deprecated