Episode 305 of Thinking Elixir. News includes Elixir 1.20.0-rc.6 arriving as likely the final release candidate before v1.20.0 ships, completing a ~15-week roadmap and delivering full type inference across applications and dependencies. The EEF 2026 election results are in with 3 returning and 1 new board member, LiveStash v0.3.0 lands with a Redis adapter and auto-stashing for Phoenix LiveView state recovery on WebSocket reconnects, a call goes out for BEAM ecosystem companies to step up and support the EEF’s critical security work, and GitHub suffered a significant breach when a hijacked VS Code extension quietly exfiltrated ~3,800 internal repositories in just 11 minutes, and more!