News

Write-ups, announcements and the occasional ramble from the Elixir Sydney community.

• 15 Jul 2026 · Josh Price

  A busy month for BEAM security advisories

  Around two dozen EEF CNA CVEs in the last month across Plug, Phoenix, LiveView, Postgrex, Mint, hpax, mdex and OTP. Grouped by package, ordered by severity, with the version to upgrade to.

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• 15 Jul 2026 · Josh Price

  Optimising every image with Kip Cole's Image library

  Every image on this site is now a right-sized WebP, produced at build time with Kip Cole's Image library (libvips via Vix). Kip literally spoke at Elixir Sydney on exactly this.

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• 14 Jul 2026 · Josh Price

  Who's building on Elixir in Australia?

  We've started listing Australian companies running Elixir and the BEAM on the home page. Get yours listed here, on elixir-companies.com, and in the EEF registry.

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• 29 Jun 2026 · Josh Price

  Hex 2.5 hardens the supply chain

  Hex 2.5 adds three defences against supply chain attacks, inline security advisories, a release-age cooldown, and signed dependency policies. Most of it works with no configuration.

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• 15 Jun 2026 · Josh Price

  A new home for Elixir Sydney

  We've rebuilt elixir.sydney from the ground up and recovered our full meetup history going back to 2015.

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• 13 Jun 2026 · Josh Price

  Fable 5 launched, then vanished three days later

  Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 on 9 June, then disabled it and Mythos 5 globally three days later after a US export directive.

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• 10 Jun 2026 · Josh Price

  Phoenix LiveView 1.2 is out

  LiveView 1.2 brings colocated CSS, finishing the colocation story started in 1.1, plus HEEx compilation changes and automatic encoding of JS commands.

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• 05 Jun 2026 · Josh Price

  Securing the BEAM: the EEF is now a CNA

  The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is now a CVE Numbering Authority and OTP 29 ships secure-by-default.

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• 04 Jun 2026 · Josh Price

  Elixir 1.20 and OTP 29 have landed

  A big few weeks for the BEAM, Erlang/OTP 29 and Elixir 1.20 are both out, with type inference and a strong security focus.

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• 01 Jun 2026 · Josh Price

  HexDocs moves to per-package subdomains

  HexDocs now serves each package from its own subdomain (package.hexdocs.pm) to isolate packages in the browser. Old links redirect, but update yours.

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• 29 May 2026 · Josh Price

  Put your company on the EEF registry

  The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation launched registry.erlef.org, a free, central registry of companies using the BEAM. Add yours, and consider backing the EEF.

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