Changelog for Elixir v1.4

v1.4.0-dev

1. Enhancements

Elixir

[Enum] Add Enum.map_every/2 that invokes the given function with every nth item
[Integer] Integer.digits/2 now accepts negative integers
[Integer] Add Integer.mod/2 and Integer.floor_div/2
[List] Add List.pop_at/3
[Stream] Add Stream.map_every/2 that invokes the given function with every nth item

IEx

[IEx.Helpers] c/1 now compiles in memory by default to avoid common issue where .beam files remain at projects root directory
[IEx.Autocomplete] Stop appending a trailing dot when autocompleting modules in IEx
[IEx.Autocomplete] Support autocompletion for structs
[IEx.Server] Support interrupting IEx evaluation through the Ctrl+G prompt

Mix

[Mix] Add warning for invalid paths on mix deps.clean
[Mix] Provide "did you mean?" suggestions for mix xref
[Mix.Rebar] Add MIX_REBAR environment variable for overriding local rebar

ExUnit

[ExUnit.Doctest] Allow inspected structures with multiples lines and unicode characters in the doctest result

2. Bug fixes

3. Soft deprecations (no warnings emitted)

Elixir

[Enum] Enum.partition/2 has been deprecated in favor of Enum.split_with/2
[Stream] Deprecate Stream.uniq/2 in favor of Stream.uniq_by/2 (to mirror the Enum API)

4. Deprecations

Elixir

[Kernel] Deprecate support for making private functions overridable. Overridable functions must always be public as they must be contracts.

IEx

[IEx.Helpers] import_file/2 is deprecated in favor of import_file_if_available/1