Enhancements

• [Ecto.Changeset] Allow custom error key in unsafe_validate_unique
• [Ecto.Changeset] Improve performance when casting large params maps

Bug fixes

• [Ecto.Changeset] Improve error message for invalid cast_assoc
• [Ecto.Query] Fix inspecting query with fragment CTE
• [Ecto.Query] Fix inspecting dynamics with aliased bindings
• [Ecto.Query] Improve error message when selecting a single atom
• [Ecto.Repo] Reduce data-copying when preloading multiple associations
• [Ecto.Schema] Do not define a compile-time dependency for schema in :join_through

Regressions

• [Ecto.UUID] Remove UUID version validation as it is not part of the RFC
• [Ecto.Adapters.Postgres] No longer add parens to migration index expression in order to support NULL/ASC/DESC

Enhancements

• [Ecto.Changeset] Add unsafe_validate_unique/3 which validates uniqueness for faster feedback cycles but without data-integrity guarantees
• [Ecto.Query] Support aggregations in type/2 in select
• [Ecto.Schema] Support @field_source_mapper in Ecto.Schema as a mechanism to programatically set the :source option

Bug fixes

• [Postgres] Ensures the :postgrex application is restarted after running migrations

Backwards incompatible changes

• [Changeset] changeset.model has been renamed to changeset.data
• [Changeset] changeset.optional has been removed
• [Changeset] changeset.errors now always returns tuple {String.t, Keyword.t} in its values
• [DateTime] The "Z" (UTC) at the end of an ISO 8601 time has been removed as UTC should not be assumed
• [LogEntry] Overhaul log entry and store times in :native units
• [Repo] Ecto.StaleModelError has been renamed to Ecto.StaleEntryError
• [Repo] Poolboy now expects :pool_overflow option instead of :max_overflow (keep in mind though using such option is discourage altogether as it establishes short-lived connections to the database, likely being worse to performance in both short- and long-term)
• [Repo] Repo.insert/2 will now send only non-nil fields from the struct to the storage (in previous versions, all fields from the struct were sent to the database)
• [Repo] Ecto.Pools.Poolboy and Ecto.Pools.SojournBroker have been removed in favor of DBConnection.Poolboy and DBConnection.Sojourn
• [Repo] :timeout in Repo.transaction now affects the whole transaction block and not only the particular transaction queries
• [Repo] Overriding Repo.log/1 is no longer supported. Instead provide custom loggers configuration via :loggers. The default is: [Ecto.LogEntry]
• [Schema] Array fields no longer default to an empty list []. Previous behaviour can be achieved by passing default: [] to the field definition
• [Schema] __schema__(:types) now returns map
• [SQL] Ecto.Adapters.SQL.begin_test_transaction, Ecto.Adapters.SQL.restart_test_transaction and Ecto.Adapters.SQL.rollback_test_transaction have been removed in favor of the new ownership-based Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Sandbox

Soft deprecations (no warnings emitted)

• [Changeset] Deprecate Ecto.Changeset.cast/4 in favor of Ecto.Changeset.cast/3 + Ecto.Changeset.validate_required/3

Deprecations

• [Changeset] Deprecate :empty in Ecto.Changeset.cast
• [Repo] Repo.after_connect/1 is deprecated, please pass the :after_connect repository option instead

Enhancements

• [Adapter] Ensure adapters work on native types, guaranteeing adapters compose better with custom types
• [Adapter] Support prepared queries in adapters
• [Adapter] Add support for loading and dumping structures
• [Changeset] Include the type that failed to cast in changeset errors. Example: [profile: {"is invalid", [type: :map]}]
• [DateTime] Ensure the given date and datetimes are valid
• [Migration] Add support for partial indexes by specifying the :where option when on Ecto.Migration.index/2
• [Migration] Allow the migration table name to be configured in the repository via :migration_source
• [Migration] Support :on_update for Ecto.Migrate.references
• [Migration] Use pool of 1 connection for mix ecto.migrate/rollback
• [Mix] Automatically reenable migration and repository management tasks after execution
• [Preloader] Support mixing preloads and assocs
• [Postgres] Add migration and changeset support for PostgreSQL exclusion constraints. Example: create constraint(:sizes, :cannot_overlap, exclude: ~s|gist (int4range("min", "max", '[]') WITH &&)|) and exclusion_constraint(changeset, :sizes, name: :cannot_overlap, message: "must not overlap")
• [Postgres] Support lateral joins (via fragments)
• [Postgres] Add migration and changeset support for PostgreSQL check constraints. Example: create constraint(:products, "positive_price", check: "price > 0") and check_constraint(changeset, :price, name: :positive_price, message: "must be greater than zero")
• [Query] Allow the :on field to be specified with association joins
• [Query] Support expressions in map keys in select in queries. Example: from p in Post, select: %{p.title => p.visitors}
• [Query] Support map update syntax. Example: from p in Post, select: %{p | title: "fixed"}
• [Query] Allow struct fields to be selected with struct/2 and map fields with map/2, including support for dynamic fields
• [Query] Add first/2 and last/2
• [Repo] Add Repo.aggregate/4 for easy aggregations
• [Repo] Allow custom select field in preload queries
• [Repo] Support the :force option in preloads
• [Repo] Perform preloads in parallel by default
• [Repo] Add Repo.in_transaction? to know if the current process is in a transaction
• [Repo] Support :returning option in insert_all, update_all and delete_all
• [Schema] Allow @schema_prefix to be configured per schema. It is used for new structs as well as queries where the given schema is used as from
• [Schema] Support MFA on autogenerate
• [Schema] Support composite primary keys
• [Type] Add type {:map, inner_type}

Bug fixes

• [Changeset] The :required option on cast_assoc and cast_embed will now tag has_many and embeds_many relationships as missing if they contain an empty list
• [DateTime] Fix Date/DateTime serialization for years above 9999
• [Postgres] Switch pg storage management away from psql and use direct database connections, solving many issues like locale and database connection
• [Repo] Ensure nested preload works even if intermediate associations were already loaded
• [Repo] Do not attempt to execute insert/update/delete statement for associations if a previous operation failed due to a constraint error
• [Schema] Ensure inserted_at autogeneration runs before updated_at autogeneration

Enhancements

• Support Elixir v1.3 calendar types
• Remove warnings on Elixir v1.3

Bug fixes

• Fix bug where ^left in ^right in queries would emit parameters in the wrong order

Enhancements

• Also support Poison ~> 2.0

Bug fixes

• Ensure optimistic_lock reads data from changes
• Ensure BIT(1) type can be loaded as type :boolean for MYSQL

Bug fixes

• Fix Mariaex requirement for 0.5.x and 0.6.x

Enhancements

• Support Mariaex 0.5.x and 0.6.x
• Wrap each pool in a supervisor

Enhancements

• Require Postgrex 0.11.0