Changelog for Elixir v1.13

v1.13.0-dev

1. Enhancements

EEx

Elixir

[Code] Add Code.string_to_quoted_with_comments/2 and Code.quoted_to_algebra/2
[Exception] Better format Elixir exceptions in Erlang
[Inspect] Allow default inspect fun to be set globally with Inspect.Opts.default_inspect_fun/1
[Kernel] Make get_in consistently abort when nil values are found
[Kernel] Improve compilation times by reducing the amount of copies of the AST across compiler processes

ExUnit

IEx

[IEx.Autocomplete] Add path autocompletion whenever when the cursor follows "./ or "/ or "DRIVER: where DRIVER is a single letter

Logger

[Logger] Add Logger.put_application_level/2

Mix

[mix archive.install] Run loadconfig before building archive
[mix escript.install] Run loadconfig before building escript
[mix rebar] No longer support sub_dirs in Rebar 2 to help migration towards Rebar 3
[mix test] Support --profile-require=time to profile the time loading test files themselves
[mix test] Allow filtering modules from coverage using regex

2. Bug fixes

Elixir

[Kernel] Raise when aliasing non-Elixir modules without :as
[Kernel] Allow unquote_splicing inside %{...} without parens
[Protocol] Add defdelegate to the list of unallowed macros inside protocols as protocols do not allow function definitions
[Protocol] Warn if @callback, @macrocallback and @optional_callbacks are defined inside protocol

Mix

[mix deps] Raise if local dep is unavailable while compiling
[mix local.install] Do not respect MIX_DEPS_PATH for install commands
[Mix.Shell] Add default option to Mix.Shell.yes?

3. Soft-deprecations (no warnings emitted)

4. Hard-deprecations

Elixir

[Macro] Macro.to_string/2 is deprecated, use Macro.to_string/1 instead
[System] Deprecate System.get_pid/0, use System.pid/0 instead

v1.12

The CHANGELOG for v1.12 releases can be found in the v1.12 branch.