Episode Details

News includes the first CVE released under EEF's new CNA program for an Erlang zip traversal vulnerability, Phoenix MacroComponents being delayed for greater potential, Supabase announcing Multigres - a Vitess-like proxy for scaling Postgres to petabyte scale, a surge of new MCP server implementations for Phoenix and Plug including Phantom, HermesMCP, ExMCP, Vancouver, and Excom, a fun blog post revealing that Erlang was the only language that didn't crash under extreme load testing against 6 other languages, LiveDebugger v0.3.0 being teased with Firefox extension support and enhanced debugging capabilities, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/258

Elixir Community News

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• https://cna.erlef.org/cves/cve-2025-4748.html – New CVE for Erlang regarding zip traversal - 4.8 severity (medium) with workaround available or update to latest patched OTP versions
• First CVE released under the EEF's new CNA (CVE Numbering Authority) program - a successful process milestone
• https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lrlhd5etkc2p – Phoenix MacroComponents is being delayed in search of greater potential
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3846 – Draft PR for Phoenix MacroComponents development
• https://x.com/supabase/status/1933627932972376097 – Supabase announcement of Multigres project
• https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres – Multigres - Vitess for Postgres, announcement of a new proxy for scaling Postgres databases to petabyte scale
• https://github.com/multigres/multigres – Multigres GitHub repository
• Sugu, co-creator of Vitess, has joined Supabase to build Multigres
• https://hex.pm/packages/phantom_mcp – Phantom MCP server - comprehensive implementation supporting Streamable HTTP with Phoenix/Plug integration
• https://hex.pm/packages/hermes_mcp – HermesMCP - comprehensive MCP server with client, stdio and Plug adapters
• https://hex.pm/packages/ex_mcp – ExMCP - comprehensive MCP implementation with client, server, stdio and Plug adapters, uses Horde for distribution
• https://hex.pm/packages/vancouver – Vancouver MCP server - simple implementation supporting only tools
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