Earmark (used for Markdown parsing) and Poison (Used for JSON parsing) both have a updates which require more recent elixir versions. Upgrading makes it easier to keep dependencies up to date.
New versions of elixir have tightened up the integration with Erlang for purposes of errors and logging and adding more clarity to messages. The elixir compiler has also had a performance tuning pass done promising faster build times.
Changes:
Update the CircleCI image we use for testing
Update Poison (This was throwing a ton of warnings when I upgraded elixir and I wanted to get it out of the way. Nothing we are doing with poison changed)
Run mix format to pass the format checker on circle
Note: This is live on staging -> https://staging.constable.io/
Why?
Changes:
mix formatto pass the format checker on circle.tool-versionsand themix.exsconfig