AtomVM Daily: Weekly Recap - Beta Release, Hex Publishing and Map Compatibility
AtomVM shipped version 0.7.0-beta.0 and opened the next development cycle with automated Hex publishing, while landing a critical map-ordering fix for OTP compatibility. An open proposal to make TCP connects non-blocking points to future scheduler reliability work.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from AtomVM Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: AtomVM Daily
- Published: 2026-10-05T09:09:00Z
- Audio duration: PT3M1S
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Hello, this is AtomVM Daily for the week of September 28th to October 5th, 2026.
7 pull request activity items, 3 additional commits this week.
The lead story is a transition: the project shipped version zero point seven beta zero, opened the next development cycle, and fixed a compatibility bug that broke communication with standard Erlang nodes.
First, release and publishing workflow. PR 2406 prepared version zero point seven beta zero, and PR 2414 updated the changelog and bumped the version for the next cycle. Commit 3a9ea46 forward-ported those changes to the main branch, along with fixes for supervisor restarts, just-in-time handling of large integers,…
Second, data model compatibility. Merged PR 2413 corrects the order of map keys decoded from the external term format. Previously, maps arriving through binary to term conversion or distribution kept the sender's order, while O T P uses hash order for large maps and atom index order for small atom-keyed maps since…
Third, runtime stability and test infrastructure. Open PR 2416 proposes connecting T C P sockets without blocking the scheduler on E S P 32 and Unix builds. Today a connect to an unresponsive address can stall the…
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