What’s Coming Next

Phoenix was able to extend its reach beyond our wildest dreams in its first few years, but we’re even more excited about what’s coming next. We’ve ordered the next sections by delivery, highlighting first the changes we believe will be released sooner, but we offer no guarantees!

Ecto 2.0

The Ecto team is working on Ecto v2.0, and it brings many and great improvements to Ecto:

  • Support for many_to_many associations will make it easier than ever to model relationships like a post has many tags and tags have many posts.

  • Support for concurrent transactional tests will allow faster tests. When we wrote our model tests, we had to split our model tests into the ones with side effects, which relied on the database, and the ones without, ...

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