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Phoenix 1.4 ships with exciting new features, most notably with HTTP2 support, improved development experience with faster compile times, new error pages, and local SSL certificate generation. Additionally, our channel layer internals receiveced an overhaul, provided better structure and extensibility. We also shipped a new and improved Presence javascript API, as well as Elixir formatter integration for our routing and test DSLs.

This release requires few user-facing changes and should be a fast upgrade for those on Phoenix 1.3.x.

Install the new phx.new project generator

The mix phx.new archive can now be installed via hex, for a simpler, versioned installation experience.

To grab the new archive, simply run:

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If you want a run-down of the 1.3 changes and the design decisions behidn those changes, check out the LonestarElixir Phoenix 1.3 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMO28ar0lW8

To use the new phx.new project generator, you can install the archive with the following command:

$ mix archive.install https://github.com/phoenixframework/archives/raw/master/phx_new.ez

Bump your phoenix dep

Phoenix v1.3.0 is a backwards compatible release with v1.2.x. To upgrade your existing 1.2.x project, simply bump your phoenix dependency in mix.exs:

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#!/bin/bash
# installing erlang on ubuntu's

VERSION="R15B01"

sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev

sudo mkdir -p /opt/erlang/
curl -O https://raw.github.com/spawngrid/kerl/master/kerl && chmod a+x kerl
sudo mv kerl /opt/erlang/

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defmodule DrainStop do
  @moduledoc """
  DrainStop Attempts to gracefully shutdown an endpoint when a normal shutdown
  occurs. It first shuts down the acceptor, ensuring that no new requests can be
  made. It then waits for all pending requests to complete. If the timeout
  expires before this happens, it stops waiting, allowing the supervision tree
  to continue its shutdown order.

  DrainStop should be installed in your supervision tree *after* the
  EndPoint it is going to drain stop.

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#Phoenix 1.1.x to 1.2.0 Upgrade Instructions

Project Generator

To generate new projects as 1.2.0, install the new mix archive:

mix archive.install https://github.com/phoenixframework/archives/raw/master/phoenix_new.ez

Deps

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// 1. Add Bootstrap as a dependency in package.json

{
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    ...
    "bootstrap": "~3.3.6"
  }
}

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# in your app supervisor
:phx_dyn_dispatch = :ets.new(:phx_dyn_dispatch, [:named_table, :bag, :public])

defmodule DynamicDispatch do

  def register(group, plug, opts) do
    true = :ets.insert(:phx_dyn_dispatch, {group, plug, opts})
  end

  def unregister(group, plug) do

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Phoenix 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 upgrade instructions

Optional upgrade for new brunch features

Update your phoenix deps

def deps do
  [{:phoenix, "~> 1.1.2"},
  ...]
end

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Comparative Benchmark Numbers @ Rackspace

I've taken the benchmarks from Matthew Rothenberg's phoenix-showdown, updated Phoenix to 0.13.1 and ran the tests on the most powerful machines available at Rackspace.

Results

Framework	Throughput (req/s)	Latency (ms)	Consistency (σ ms)

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Using OTP's observer (appmon replacement) remotely

$ ssh remote-host "epmd -names"
epmd: up and running on port 4369 with data:
name some_node at port 58769

Note the running on port for epmd itself and the port of the node you're interested in debugging. Reconnect to the remote host with these ports forwarded:

$ ssh -L 4369:localhost:4369 -L 58769:localhost:58769 remote-host