Ash Weekly: Issue #4

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ReactorProcess Released

ReactorProcess gives you tools to start, stop, supervise and manage processes as part of your reactor execution. Cool, huh?

Releases

Ash: 3.4.61-3.4.62

Fixes

• Fix a case where actions were not performed in a transaction if the only change that they had was `manage_relationship`.

• Fix a case where `parent/1` expressions in belongs_to relationships was not detected in `manage_relationship` (it requires a lateral join)

• Fix a case where `Ash.Generator` functions would ignore inputs that had corresponding `manage_relationship` calls.

• Fix a case where `Ash.Reactor` transaction steps would not recognize references to outer steps.

• Make `cascade_destroy` do its work before the action instead of after, to prevent conflicts. Also added an option to opt into the old behavior.

Improvements

• Warn on common mistakes made with primary read actions. It is often an unintentional thing to have changes, preparations or filters applied to the primary read action, so now we provide a helpful (and dismissible) warning.

• Rename `mix ash.patch.extend` to `mix ash.extend` (the old one remains for backwards compatibility.

Reactor: 0.12.0-0.12.1

Fixes

• Fix error with step planner mishandling intermediate results.

Improvements

• Add `template` step which renders an EEx template

• Recursively verify step name uniqueness

Igniter: 0.5.21

Fixes

• Fix an error where certain patterns in config files could cause errors while formatting.

Improvements

• Add an `:after` option to `Config` functions, allowing to control where in a config file config is placed.

• Make diff printing significantly faster.

Spark 2.2.44 - 2.2.45

Fixes

• Ensure empty sections still set default values.

• Fix a crash in `mix spark.formatter`

• Ensure nested entities appear in documentation search bar

• Include entities from DSL patches in .formatter.exs

AshAuthentication 4.4.6-4.4.8

Fixes

• Fix case where the magic link installer behavior to mark hashed_password attribute as `allow_nil? true` was not working and/or had unintended side effects

• Fix a bug where OIDC configuration was not fetched properly.

Improvements

• Allow authorization params to be defined using secret modules.

AshSql 2.2.49

Fixes

• Multiple fixes for lateral join query building errors

• Fix case where single aggregates did not have filters applied properly

• Fix case where we were attempting to cast to a `nil` type.

• Properly handle database time zones in `start_of_day/1-2`

ReactorFile 0.16.0-0.18.0

Improvements

• Add File open/close and IO operations.

• Add `write_file` DSL step.

• Add `read_file` DSL step.