{"id":8009,"date":"2018-11-16T10:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T12:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2018-11-17T07:09:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:09:18","slug":"whats-new-in-elixir-nov-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/2018\/11\/whats-new-in-elixir-nov-18\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new in Elixir &#8211; Nov\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone!<\/p>\n<p>We are back with another edition of &#8220;What&#8217;s new in Elixir&#8221;. This time we are working towards Elixir v1.8 which should be out next January. Here are some highlights of what have already made to master:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>mix test<\/code> now supports the <code>--max-failures<\/code> flag (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/elixir-lang\/elixir\/commit\/8c373044dcde1654670d8da10448e4b8fecf0b93\">commit<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The <code>Inspect<\/code> protocol can now be easily derivable and this is a great mechanism to exclude some fields during inspection and logs, especially security-related ones (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/elixir-lang\/elixir\/commit\/10ceadb448ba6a913f3070c3cc51c9c7be1f280b\">commit<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mix now automatically starts optional dependencies when using the <code>:extra_applications<\/code> configuration (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/elixir-lang\/elixir\/commit\/53ebafb8a4bc2fe73caefd24b49c95cc2943a340\">commit<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>We finally have official support for time zone databases in Elixir. Elixir still handles only UTC by default but you can bring another database to use the <code>DateTime<\/code> API with other time zones (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/elixir-lang\/elixir\/commit\/b8b1a4ba8af8256567f00e6d9f7fa056881a8ec1\">commit<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There are many other small additions, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/elixir-lang\/elixir\/commit\/2d7bd055ed0f8ee9fdb130bbd969033b705b4943\"><code>List.myers_difference\/3<\/code><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/elixir-lang\/elixir\/commit\/76c144aa26301018b39a7b4d70be226034faac43\"><code>String.bag_distance\/2<\/code><\/a> which were extracted from the Elixir codebase itself<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the complete list of changes, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/elixir-lang\/elixir\/blob\/master\/CHANGELOG.md\">CHANGELOG<\/a>. To keep track of upcoming changes and even contribute some features yourself, head to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/elixir-lang\/elixir\/issues\">Elixir\u2019s issues tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.plataformatec.com.br\/elixir-development-subscription\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7816\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elixir_2-1-1024x213.png\" alt=\"banner-elixir development subscription\" width=\"1024\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elixir_2-1-1024x213.png 1024w, http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elixir_2-1-300x63.png 300w, http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elixir_2-1-768x160.png 768w, http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Elixir_2-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone! We are back with another edition of &#8220;What&#8217;s new in Elixir&#8221;. This time we are working towards Elixir v1.8 which should be out next January. Here are some highlights of what have already made to master: mix test now supports the &#8211;max-failures flag (commit) The Inspect protocol can now be easily derivable and &#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/2018\/11\/whats-new-in-elixir-nov-18\/\">\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}