v1.2.0

1.2.0 (2016-6-23)

See these 1.1.x to 1.2.x upgrade instructions to bring your existing apps up to speed.

• Enhancements
  • [CodeReloader] The lib/ directory is now code reloaded by default along with web/ in development
  • [Channel] Add :phoenix_channel_join instrumentation hook
  • [View] Generate private render_template/2 clauses for views to allow overriding render/2 clauses before rendering templates
  • [View] Add :path and :pattern options to allow wildcard template inclusion as well as customized template directory locations
• Deprecations

  • [Endpoint] Generated subscribe/3 and unsubscribe/2 clauses have been deprecated in favor of subscribe/2 and unsubscribe/1 which uses the caller's pid

  • [PubSub] Phoenix.PubSub.subscribe/3 and Phoenix.PubSub.unsubscribe/2 have been deprecated in favor of subscribe/2 and unsubscribe/1 which uses the caller's pid

  • [Watcher] Using the :root endpoint configuration for watchers is deprecated. Pass the :cd option at the end of your watcher argument list in config/dev.exs. For example:

    watchers: [node: ["node_modules/brunch/bin/brunch", "watch", "--stdin",
               cd: Path.expand("../", __DIR__)]]

• Bug Fixes
  • [Template] Prevent infinite call stack when rendering a non-existent template from template_not_found
• JavaScript client enhancements
  • Add Presence object for syncing presence state between client and server
  • Use return value of channel onMessage callback for specialized message transformations before dispatching to the channel
• JavaScript client backward incompatible changes
  • Presence.syncState and Presence.syncDiff now return a copy of the state instead of mutating it