v0.10.3

Enhancements

• [Enum] Add Enum.take_every/2
• [IEx] IEx now respects signals sent from the Ctrl+G menu
• [Kernel] Allow documentation for types with @typedoc
• [Mix] Allow apps to be selected in umbrella projects
• [Record] Generated record functions new and update also take options with strings as keys
• [Stream] Add Stream.unfold/1

Bug fixes

• [Dict] Fix a bug when a HashDict was marked as equal when one was actually a subset of the other
• [EEx] Solve issue where do blocks inside templates were not properly aligned
• [ExUnit] Improve checks and have better error reports on poorly aligned doctests
• [Kernel] Fix handling of multiple heredocs on the same line
• [Kernel] Provide better error messages for match, guard and quoting errors
• [Kernel] Make Kernel.raise/2 a macro to avoid messing up stacktraces
• [Kernel] Ensure &() works on quoted blocks with only one expression
• [Mix] Address an issue where a dependency was not compiled in the proper order when specified in different projects
• [Mix] Ensure compile: false is a valid mechanism for disabling the compilation of dependencies
• [Regex] Fix bug on Regex.scan/3 when capturing groups and the regex has no groups
• [String] Fix a bug with String.split/2 when given an empty pattern
• [Typespec] Guarantee typespecs error reports point to the proper line

Deprecations

• [Kernel] The previous partial application syntax (without the & operator) has now been deprecated
• [Regex] Regex.captures/3 is deprecated in favor of Regex.named_captures/3
• [String] String.valid_codepoint?/1 is deprecated in favor of pattern matching with <<_ :: utf8 >>

Backwards incompatible changes

• [IEx] The r/0 helper has been removed as it caused surprising behaviour when many modules with dependencies were accumulated
• [Mix] Mix.Version was renamed to Version
• [Mix] File.IteratorError was renamed to IO.StreamError
• [Mix] mix new now defaults to the --sup option, use --bare to get the previous behaviour

v0.10.2

Enhancements

• [CLI] Add --verbose to elixirc, which now is non-verbose by default
• [Dict] Add Dict.Behaviour as a convenience to create your own dictionaries
• [Enum] Add Enum.split/2, Enum.reduce/2, Enum.flat_map/2, Enum.chunks/2, Enum.chunks/4, Enum.chunks_by/2, Enum.concat/1 and Enum.concat/2
• [Enum] Support negative indices in Enum.at/fetch/fetch!
• [ExUnit] Show failures on CLIFormatter as soon as they pop up
• [IEx] Allow for strings in h helper
• [IEx] Helpers r and c can handle erlang sources
• [Integer] Add odd?/1 and even?/1
• [IO] Added support to specifying a number of bytes to stream to IO.stream, IO.binstream, File.stream! and File.binstream!
• [Kernel] Include file and line on error report for overriding an existing function/macro
• [Kernel] Convert external functions into quoted expressions. This allows record fields to contain functions as long as they point to an &Mod.fun/arity
• [Kernel] Allow foo? and bar! as valid variable names
• [List] Add List.replace_at/3
• [Macro] Improve printing of the access protocol on Macro.to_string/1
• [Macro] Add Macro.to_string/2 to support annotations on the converted string
• [Mix] Automatically recompile a project if the Elixir version changes
• [Path] Add Path.relative_to_cwd/2
• [Regex] Allow erlang re options when compiling Elixir regexes
• [Stream] Add Stream.concat/1, Stream.concat/2 and Stream.flat_map/2
• [String] Add regex pattern support to String.replace/3
• [String] Add String.ljust/2, String.rjust/2, String.ljust/3 and String.rjust/3
• [URI] URI.parse/1 supports IPv6 addresses

Bug fixes

• [Behaviour] Do not compile behaviour docs if docs are disabled on compilation
• [ExUnit] Doctests no longer eat too much space and provides detailed reports for poorly indented lines
• [File] Fix a bug where File.touch(file, datetime) was not setting the proper datetime when the file did not exist
• [Kernel] Limit inspect results to 50 items by default to avoid printing too much data
• [Kernel] Return a readable error on oversized atoms
• [Kernel] Allow functions ending with ? or ! to be captured
• [Kernel] Fix default shutdown of child supervisors to :infinity
• [Kernel] Fix regression when calling a function/macro ending with bang, followed by do/end blocks
• [List] Fix bug on List.insert_at/3 that added the item at the wrong position for negative indexes
• [Macro] Macro.escape/2 can now escape improper lists
• [Mix] Fix Mix.Version matching on pre-release info
• [Mix] Ensure watch_exts trigger full recompilation on change with mix compile
• [Mix] Fix regression on mix clean --all
• [String] String.strip/2 now supports removing unicode characters
• [String] String.slice/3 still returns the proper result when there is no length to be extracted
• [System] System.get_env/0 now returns a list of tuples as previously advertised

Deprecations

• [Dict] Dict.update/3 is deprecated in favor of Dict.update!/3
• [Enum] Enum.min/2 and Enum.max/2 are deprecated in favor of Enum.min_by/2 and Enum.max_by/2
• [Enum] Enum.join/2 and Enum.map_join/3 with a char list are deprecated
• [IO] IO.stream(device) and IO.binstream(device) are deprecated in favor of IO.stream(device, :line) and IO.binstream(device, :line)
• [Kernel] list_to_binary/1, binary_to_list/1 and binary_to_list/3 are deprecated in favor of String.from_char_list!/1 and String.to_char_list!/1 for characters and :binary.list_to_bin/1, :binary.bin_to_list/1 and :binary.bin_to_list/3 for bytes
• [Kernel] to_binary/1 is deprecated in favor of to_string/1
• [Kernel] Deprecate def/4 and friends in favor of def/2 with unquote and friends
• [Kernel] Deprecate %b and %B in favor of %s and %S
• [List] List.concat/2 is deprecated in favor of Enum.concat/2
• [Macro] Macro.unescape_binary/1 and Macro.unescape_binary/2 are deprecated in favor of Macro.unescape_string/1 and Macro.unescape_string/2
• [Mix] :umbrella option for umbrella paths has been deprecated in favor of :in_umbrella

Backwards incompatible changes

• [IO] IO functions now only accept iolists as arguments
• [Kernel] Binary.Chars was renamed to String.Chars
• [Kernel] The previous ambiguous import syntax import :functions, Foo was removed in favor of import Foo, only: :functions
• [OptionParser] parse and parse_head now returns a tuple with three elements instead of two

v0.10.1

Enhancements

• [Behaviour] Add support for defmacrocallback/1
• [Enum] Add Enum.shuffle/1
• [ExUnit] The :trace option now also reports run time for each test
• [ExUnit] Add support for :color to enable/disable ANSI coloring
• [IEx] Add the clear helper to clear the screen.
• [Kernel] Add the capture operator &
• [Kernel] Add support for GenFSM.Behaviour
• [Kernel] Functions now points to the module and function they were defined when inspected
• [Kernel] A documentation attached to a function that is never defined now prints warnings
• [List] Add List.keysort/2
• [Mix] :test_helper project configuration did not affect mix test and was therefore removed. A test/test_helper.exs file is still necessary albeit it doesn't need to be automatically required in each test file
• [Mix] Add manifests for yecc, leex and Erlang compilers, making it easier to detect dependencies in between compilers and providing a more useful clean behaviour
• [Mix] mix help now outputs information about the default mix task
• [Mix] Add --no-deps-check option to mix run, mix compile and friends to not check dependency status
• [Mix] Add support for MIX_GIT_FORCE_HTTPS system environment that forces HTTPS for known providers, useful when the regular git port is blocked. This configuration does not affect the mix.lock results
• [Mix] Allow coverage tool to be pluggable via the :test_coverage configuration
• [Mix] Add mix cmd as a convenience to run a command recursively in child apps in an umbrella application
• [Mix] Support umbrella: true in dependencies as a convenience for setting up umbrella path deps
• [Mix] mix run now behaves closer to the elixir command and properly mangles the ARGV
• [String] Add Regex.scan/3 now supports capturing groups
• [String] Add String.reverse/1

Bug fix

• [Behaviour] Ensure callbacks are stored in the definition order
• [CLI] Speed up boot time on Elixir .bat files
• [IEx] Reduce cases where IEx parser can get stuck
• [Kernel] Improve error messages when the use of an operator has no effect
• [Kernel] Fix a bug where warnings were not being generated when imported macros conflicted with local functions or macros
• [Kernel] Document that on_definition can only be a function as it is evaluated inside the function context
• [Kernel] Ensure %w sigils with no interpolation are fully expanded at compile time
• [Mix] mix deps.update, mix deps.clean and mix deps.unlock no longer change all dependencies unless --all is given
• [Mix] Always run mix loadpaths on mix app.start, even if --no-compile is given
• [OptionParser] Do not add boolean flags to the end result if they were not given
• [OptionParser] Do not parse non-boolean flags as booleans when true or false are given
• [OptionParser] Ensure :keep and :integer|:float can be given together as options
• [OptionParser] Ensure --no-flag sets :flag to false when :flag is a registered boolean switch

Deprecations

• [Kernel] function(Mod.fun/arity) and function(fun/arity) are deprecated in favor of &Mod.fun/arity and &fun/arity
• [Kernel] function/3 is deprecated in favor of Module.function/3
• [Kernel] Kernel.ParallelCompiler now receives a set of callbacks instead of a single one
• [Mix] :test_coverage option now expect keywords arguments and the --cover flag is now treated as a boolean

Backwards incompatible changes

• [Regex] Regex.scan/3 now always returns a list of lists, normalizing the result, instead of list with mixed lists and binaries
• [System] System.halt/2 was removed since the current Erlang implementation of such function is bugged

v0.10.0

Enhancements

• [ExUnit] Support trace: true option which gives detailed reporting on test runs
• [HashDict] Optimize HashDict to store pairs in a cons cell reducing storage per key by half
• [Kernel] Add pretty printing support for inspect
• [Kernel] Add document algebra library used as the foundation for pretty printing
• [Kernel] Add defrecordp/3 that enables specifying the first element of the tuple
• [Kernel] Add the Set API and a hash based implementation via HashSet
• [Kernel] Add Stream as composable, lazy-enumerables
• [Mix] mix archive now includes the version of the generated archive
• [Mix] Mix now requires explicit dependency overriding to be given with override: true
• [Mix] Projects can now define an :elixir key to outline supported Elixir versions
• [Typespec] Improve error messages to contain file, line and the typespec itself

Bug fix

• [CLI] Elixir can now run on Unix directories with : in its path
• [Kernel] match?/2 does not leak variables to outer scope
• [Kernel] Keep head|tail format when splicing at the tail
• [Kernel] Ensure variables defined in the module body are not passed to callbacks
• [Mix] On dependencies conflict, show from where each source is coming from
• [Mix] Empty projects no longer leave empty ebin files on mix compile
• [Module] Calling Module.register_attribute/3 no longer automatically changes it to persisted or accumulated

Deprecations

• [Enum] Receiving the index of iteration in Enum.map/2 and Enum.each/2 is deprecated in favor of Stream.with_index/1
• [File] File.iterator/1 and File.biniterator/1 are deprecated in favor of IO.stream/1 and IO.binstream/1
• [File] File.iterator!/2 and File.biniterator!/2 are deprecated in favor of File.stream!/2 and File.binstream!/2
• [Kernel] Deprecate recently added quote binding: ... in favor of the clearer quote bind_quoted: ...
• [Kernel] Deprecate Kernel.float/1 in favor of a explicit conversion
• [Mix] Deprecate mix run EXPR in favor of mix run -e EXPR
• [Record] Record.__index__/2 deprecated in favor of Record.__record__(:index, key)

Backwards incompatible changes

• [Kernel] The Binary.Inspect protocol has been renamed to Inspect

• [Kernel] Tighten up the grammar rules regarding parentheses omission, previously the examples below would compile but now they raise an error message:

      do_something 1, is_list [], 3
      [1, is_atom :foo, 3]
  

• [Module] Calling Module.register_attribute/3 no longer automatically changes it to persisted or accumulated

• [Record] First element of a record via defrecordp is now the defrecordp name and no longer the current atom

• [URI] Remove custom URI parsers in favor of URI.default_port/2

v0.9.3

Release v0.9.3

v0.9.2

Release v0.9.2

v0.9.1

Release v0.9.1

v0.9.0

Release v0.9.0

v0.8.3

Release v0.8.3

v0.8.2

Release v0.8.2