Elixir Community News and Insights from the Thinking Elixir Podcast

In the latest episode of the Thinking Elixir Podcast, significant updates in the Elixir community are shared. This includes details about the major release of OTP 28, which introduces priority messages functionality. The show also highlights ElixirConf EU 2025, where videos are starting to emerge, notably featuring Chris McCord's keynote on a new service called phoenix.new, and James Arthur's introduction to Phoenix Sync for real-time database synchronization. They also cover the results of the EEF board elections, noting their role as a CVE Numbering Authority for the Hex ecosystem. Upcoming features such as co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView are mentioned, along with updates on the Elixir Lua package and the MDEx with its new Markdown sigil. Additionally, a new convention for AI-friendly usage_rules.md files in Hex packages is introduced.