305: Eleven Minutes to Mayhem
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The episode discusses the latest updates in the Elixir community, including the release candidate for Elixir 1.20.0, election results for the EEF, and a significant security breach at GitHub.
News includes Elixir 1.20.0-rc.6 arriving as likely the final release candidate before v1.20.0 ships, completing a ~15-week roadmap and delivering full type inference across applications and dependencies. The EEF 2026 election results are in with 3 returning and 1 new board member, LiveStash v0.3.0 lands with a Redis adapter and auto-stashing for Phoenix LiveView state recovery on WebSocket reconnects, a call goes out for BEAM ecosystem companies to step up and support the EEF’s critical security work, and GitHub suffered a significant breach when a hijacked VS Code extension quietly exfiltrated ~3,800 internal repositories in just 11 minutes, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/305 Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer. https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-20-0-rc-6-released/75448 – Elixir v1.20.0-rc.6 released on the ElixirForum - the likely final release candidate before v1.20.0 final, completing the ~15 week type inference roadmap. Includes tips for profiling compile times before and…
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