1.8.0

Released on 2019-01-14

Changes

Type: enhancement
Tool: EEx
Module: EEx
Description: Optimize the default template engine to compile and execute more efficiently
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Calendar
Description: Add `Calendar.TimeZoneDatabase` and a `Calendar.UTCOnlyTimeZoneDatabase` implementation
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Calendar
Description: Add callbacks `day_of_year/3`, `quarter_of_year/3`, `year_of_era/1`, and `day_of_era/3`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Code.Formatter
Description: Preserve user's choice of new line after most operators
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Date
Description: Add `Date.day_of_year/1`, `Date.quarter_of_year/1`, `Date.year_of_era/1`, and `Date.day_of_era/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: DateTime
Description: Add `DateTime.from_naive/3`, `DateTime.now/1`, and `DateTime.shift_zone/3`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: File
Description: Allow `:raw` option in `File.exists?/2`, `File.regular?/2`, and `File.dir?/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: File
Description: Allow POSIX time as an integer in `File.touch/2` and `File.touch!/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Inspect
Description: Allow `Inspect` protocol to be derivable with the `:only`/`:except` options
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Do not propagate counters to variables in quote inside another quote
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Warn on ambiguous use of `::` and `|` in typespecs
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Add `:delegate_to` `@doc` metadata tag when using `defdelegate`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Improve compile-time building of ranges via the `..` operator
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Compile charlist interpolation more efficiently
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Add `floor/1` and `ceil/1` guards
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel.SpecialForms
Description: Add `:reduce` option to `for` comprehensions
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: List
Description: Add `List.myers_difference/3` and `List.improper?/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Macro
Description: Add `Macro.struct!/2` for proper struct resolution during compile time
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Map
Description: Optimize and merge nested maps `put` and `merge` operations
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Range
Description: Add `Range.disjoint?/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Record
Description: Reduce memory allocation when updating multiple fields in a record
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Registry
Description: Allow associating a value on `:via` tuple
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: String
Description: Add `String.bag_distance/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Task
Description: Add `$callers` tracking to `Task` - this makes it easier to find which process spawned a task and use it for tracking ownership and monitoring
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit
Description: Add `ExUnit.after_suite/1` callback
Type: enhancement
Tool: ExUnit
Module: ExUnit.Assertions
Description: Show last N messages (instead of first N) from mailbox on `assert_receive` fail
Type: enhancement
Tool: IEx
Module: IEx.Helpers
Description: Add `port/1` and `port/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: IEx
Module: IEx.Server
Description: Expose `IEx.Server.run/1` for custom IEx sessions with the ability to broker pry sessions
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix
Description: Add `Mix.target/0` and `Mix.target/1` to control dependency management per target
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: Mix.Project
Description: Add `:depth` and `:parents` options to `deps_paths/1`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: mix archive.install
Description: Add a timeout when installing archives
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: mix compile
Description: Include optional dependencies in `:extra_applications`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: mix escript.install
Description: Add a timeout when installing escripts
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: mix format
Description: Warn when the same file may be formatted by multiple `.formatter.exs`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: mix test
Description: Allow setting the maximum number of failures via `--max-failures`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: mix test
Description: Print a message instead of raising on unmatched tests inside umbrella projects
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Calendar
Description: Allow printing dates with more than 9999 years
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Exception
Description: Exclude deprecated functions in "did you mean?" hints
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Float
Description: Handle subnormal floats in `Float.ratio/1`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Remove `Guard test tuple_size(...) can never succeed` Dialyzer warning on `try`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Expand operands in `size*unit` bitstring modifier instead of expecting `size` and `unit` to be literal integers
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Do not deadlock on circular struct dependencies in typespecs
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Raise proper error message when passing flags to the Erlang compiler that Elixir cannot handle
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Do not leak variables in `cond` clauses with a single matching at compile-time clause
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: NaiveDateTime
Description: Do not accept leap seconds in builder and parsing functions
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: String
Description: Fix ZWJ handling in Unicode grapheme clusters
Type: bugfix
Tool: Elixir
Module: StringIO
Description: Handle non-printable args in StringIO gracefully
Type: bugfix
Tool: IEx
Module: IEx.Helpers
Description: Use typespec info (instead of docs chunk) and properly format callbacks in `b/1`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Logger
Module: Logger
Description: Allow Logger backends to be dynamically removed when an application is shutting down
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: mix compile
Description: Ensure changes in deps propagate to all umbrella children - this fix a long standing issue where updating a dependency would not recompile all projects accordingly, requiring a complete removal of `_build`
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: mix compile
Description: Avoid time drift when checking and updating compiler manifest files
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: mix compile.app
Description: Respect the `:only` option between umbrella siblings
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: mix compile.protocols
Description: Reconsolidate protocols if local dependencies are stale
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: mix deps
Description: Properly mark dependencies with different `:system_env` as diverged
Type: bugfix
Tool: Mix
Module: mix new
Description: Use `--module` value when setting up filenames
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Enum
Description: Passing a non-empty list to `Enum.into/2` was inconsistent with maps and is deprecated in favor of `Kernel.++/2` or `Keyword.merge/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Inspect.Algebra
Description: `surround/3` is deprecated in favor of `Inspect.Algebra.concat/2` and `Inspect.Algebra.nest/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Inspect.Algebra
Description: `surround_many/6` is deprecated in favor of `container_doc/6`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Using `@since` will now emit a unused attribute warning. Use `@doc since: "1.7.2"` instead
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel
Description: Passing a non-empty list as `:into` in `for` comprehensions was inconsistent with maps and is deprecated in favor of `Kernel.++/2` or `Keyword.merge/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel.ParallelCompiler
Description: `files/2` is deprecated in favor of `compile/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel.ParallelCompiler
Description: `files_to_path/2` is deprecated in favor of `compile_to_path/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: Kernel.ParallelRequire
Description: `files/2` is deprecated in favor of `Kernel.ParallelCompiler.require/2`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: System
Description: `:seconds`, `:milliseconds`, etc. as time units is deprecated in favor of `:second`, `:millisecond`, etc.
Type: enhancement
Tool: Elixir
Module: System
Description: `System.cwd/0` and `System.cwd!/0` are deprecated in favor of `File.cwd/0` and `File.cwd!/0`
Type: enhancement
Tool: Mix
Module: mix compile.erlang
Description: Returning `{:ok, contents}` or `:error` as the callback in `Mix.Compilers.Erlang.compile/6` is deprecated in favor of returning `{:ok, contents, warnings}` or `{:error, errors, warnings}`