276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed

28/10/2025 42 min

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Episode Synopsis

News includes the major release of Elixir v1.19 with enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, plus the first OpenChain certification bringing more transparency to the BEAM ecosystem. We also cover the Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library update for Tailwind 4 support, visual improvements coming to ExDocs admonition blocks, Anthropic's new ClaudeCode Web that lets you code directly in the browser with GitHub integration, a critical Redis security vulnerability with a perfect 10.0 severity score affecting hundreds of thousands of servers, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/276 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/276)
Elixir Community News
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https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1978729853349196170 (https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1978729853349196170?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José Valim announces Elixir v1.19 release on social media
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/ (https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Official blog announcement for Elixir v1.19 release
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.19/changelog.html (https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.19/changelog.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Detailed changelog documentation for Elixir v1.19
https://nitter.net/theerlef/status/1978896262473662539 (https://nitter.net/theerlef/status/1978896262473662539?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation announces OpenChain certification for Elixir v1.19
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/02/26/elixir-openchain-certification/ (https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/02/26/elixir-openchain-certification/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Details about Elixir's OpenChain certification bringing transparency and trust to the BEAM ecosystem
https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/issues/2149#issuecomment-3394340806 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/issues/2149#issuecomment-3394340806?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ExDocs visual adjustments to admonition blocks for better consistency across light and dark modes
https://bsky.app/profile/yellowduck.be/post/3m3htzs4qyg2a (https://bsky.app/profile/yellowduck.be/post/3m3htzs4qyg2a?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Announcement of Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library v0.0.8 update
https://mishka.tools/blog/introducing-mishka-chelekom-v0.0.8-with-tailwind-4-support-and-custom-configuration (https://mishka.tools/blog/introducing-mishka-chelekom-v0.0.8-with-tailwind-4-support-and-custom-configuration?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Details about Mishka Chelekom v0.0.8 with Tailwind 4 support and Phoenix 1.8 compatibility
https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/1942240/amazons-dns-problem-knocked-out-half-the-web-likely-costing-billions (https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/1942240/amazons-dns-problem-knocked-out-half-the-web-likely-costing-billions?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Report on AWS outage on October 20, 2025 that affected half the web
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status (https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – AWS health status dashboard
GitHub announced plans to move infrastructure to Azure over 1-2 years
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Anthropic announces ClaudeCode Web
https://claude.ai/code (https://claude.ai/code?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ClaudeCode Web interface
https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg (https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Video demonstration of ClaudeCode Web
https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/ (https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Redis security advisory for CVE-2025-49844 with a 10.0 severity score allowing remote code execution
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