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Elixir v1.14 requires Erlang/OTP 23+.

partitionsupervisor

PartitionSupervisor

TODO.

improved-errors-on-binaries-and-evaluation

Improved errors on binaries and evaluation

TODO.

slicing-with-steps

Slicing with steps

TODO.

expression-based-inspection

Expression-based inspection

TODO.

v1-14-0-dev

v1.14.0-dev

1-enhancements

1. Enhancements

EEx

• [EEx] Support multi-line comments to EEx via <%!-- --%>
• [EEx] Add EEx.tokenize/2

Elixir

• [Calendar] Support ISO8601 basic format parsing with DateTime.from_iso8601
• [Code] Emit deprecation and type warnings for invalid options in on Code.compile_string/2 and Code.compile_quoted/2
• [Code] Warn if an outdated lexical tracker is given on eval
• [Code] Add Code.env_for_eval/1 and Code.eval_quoted_with_env/3
• [Code] Improve stacktraces from eval operations on Erlang/OTP 25+
• [Enum] Allow slicing with steps in Enum.slice/2
• [Float] Do not show floats in scientific notation if below 1.0e16 and the fractional value is precisely zero
• [Inspect] Improve error reporting when there is a faulty inspect implementation
• [Inspect] Use expression-based inspection for Date.Range, MapSet, Version, and Version.Requirement
• [Kernel] Allow any guard expression as the size of a bitstring in a pattern match
• [Kernel] Allow composite types with pins as the map key in a pattern match
• [Kernel] Print escaped version of control chars when they show up as unexpected tokens
• [Kernel] Warn on confusable non-ascii identifiers
• [Kernel] Add .. as a nullary operator that returns 0..-1//1
• [Kernel] Implement Unicode Technical Standard #39 recommendations. In particular, we warn for confusable scripts and restrict identifiers to single-scripts or highly restrictive mixed-scripts
• [Kernel] Add binary_slice/2 and binary_slice/3
• [Keyword] Add Keyword.from_keys/2 and Keyword.replace_lazy/3
• [List] Add List.keysort/3 with support for a sorter function
• [Macro] Add Macro.classify_atom/1 and Macro.inspect_atom/2
• [Macro.Env] Add Macro.Env.prune_compile_info/1
• [Map] Add Map.from_keys/2 and Map.replace_lazy/3
• [MapSet] Add MapSet.filter/2 and MapSet.reject/2
• [Node] Add Node.spawn_monitor/2 and Node.spawn_monitor/4
• [PartitionSupervisor] Add PartitionSupervisor that starts multiple isolated partitions of the same child for scalability
• [Path] Add Path.safe_relative/1 and Path.safe_relative_to/2
• [Registry] Add Registry.count_select/2
• [Stream] Add Stream.duplicate/2 and Stream.transform/5
• [String] Support empty lookup lists in String.replace/3, String.split/3, and String.splitter/3
• [String] Allow slicing with steps in String.slice/2
• [Task] Add :zip_input_on_exit option to Task.async_stream/3
• [Task] Store :mfa in the Task struct for reflection purposes
• [URI] Add URI.append_query/2
• [Version] Add Version.to_string/1
• [Version] Colorize Version.Requirement source in Inspect protocol

ExUnit

• [ExUnit] Add ExUnit.Callbacks.start_link_supervised!/2
• [ExUnit] Add ExUnit.run/1 to rerun test modules

IEx

• [IEx] Evaluate --dot-iex line by line
• [IEx.Helpers] Allow an atom to be given to pid/1

Logger

• [Logger] Add Logger.put_process_level/2

Mix

• [mix do] Support --app option to restrict recursive tasks in umbrella projects
• [mix do] Allow using + as a task separator instead of comma
• [mix new] Do not allow projects to be created with application names that conflict with multi-arg Erlang VM switches
• [mix profile] Return the return value of the profiled function
• [mix release] Make BEAM compression opt-in
• [mix test] Improve error message when suite fails due to coverage
• [mix test] Support :test_elixirc_options and default to not generating docs nor debug info chunk for tests

2-bug-fixes

2. Bug fixes

Elixir

• [CLI] Improve errors on incorrect --rpc-eval usage
• [Code] Do not emit warnings when formatting code
• [Enum] Allow slices to overflow on both starting and ending positions
• [Kernel] Do not allow restricted restricted characters in identifiers according to UTS39
• [Kernel] Define __exception__ field as true when expanding exceptions in typespecs
• [Kernel] Warn if any of True, False, and Nil aliases are used
• [Kernel] Warn on underived @derive attributes
• [Protocol] Warn if a protocol has no definitions
• [String] Allow slices to overflow on both starting and ending positions

ExUnit

• [ExUnit] Do not raise when diffing unknown bindings in guards
• [ExUnit] Properly print diffs when comparing improper lists with strings at the tail position
• [ExUnit] Add short hash to tmp_dir in ExUnit to avoid test name collision
• [ExUnit] Do not store logs in the CLI formatter (this reduces memory usage for suites with capture_log)
• [ExUnit] Run after_suite even when no tests run
• [ExUnit] Fix scenario where setup with imported function from within describe failed to compile

Mix

• [mix compile.elixir] Fix --warnings-as-errors when used with --all-warnings
• [mix format] Do not add new lines if the formatted file is empty
• [mix release] Only set RELEASE_MODE after env.{sh,bat} are executed

IEx

• [IEx] Disallow short-hand pipe after matches

3-soft-deprecations-no-warnings-emitted

3. Soft-deprecations (no warnings emitted)

EEx

• [EEx] Using <%# ... %> for comments is deprecated. Please use <% # ... %> or the new multi-line comments with <%!-- ... --%>

Logger

• [Logger] Deprecate Logger.enable/1 and Logger.disable/1 in favor of Logger.put_process_level/2

Mix

• [mix cmd] The --app option in mix cmd CMD is deprecated in favor of the more efficient mix do --app app cmd CMD

4-hard-deprecations

4. Hard-deprecations

Elixir

• [Application] Calling Application.get_env/3 and friends in the module body is now discouraged, use Application.compile_env/3 instead
• [Bitwise] use Bitwise is deprecated, use import Bitwise instead
• [Bitwise] ~~~ is deprecated in favor of bnot for clarity
• [Kernel.ParallelCompiler] Returning a list or two-element tuple from :each_cycle is deprecated, return a {:compile | :runtime, modules, warnings} tuple instead
• [Kernel] Deprecate the operator <|> to avoid ambiguity with upcoming extended numerical operators
• [String] Deprecate passing a binary compiled pattern to String.starts_with?/2

Logger

• [Logger] Deprecate $levelpad on message formatting

Mix

• [Mix] Mix.Tasks.Xref.calls/1 is deprecated in favor of compilation tracers

5-backwards-incompatible-changes

5. Backwards incompatible changes

Mix

• [mix local.rebar] Remove support for rebar2, which has not been updated in 5 years, and is no longer supported on recent Erlang/OTP versions

v1-13

v1.13

The CHANGELOG for v1.13 releases can be found in the v1.13 branch.