Recompile of a dependency does not take affect

Questions / Help
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Something I noticed; haven’t investigated deeply but I decided to query here:
Previously, when I would do a change in a dep that I was testing in a project, I could run mix compile in terminal, the dep would recompile and then I could do recompile in the iex shell and the changes I made would be visible.

Recently I switched to 1.20.0-rc.1-otp-28 and it seems this flow is not working as before. Recompiles still happen, I do get :ok from shell but I don’t see the changes, it’s like the old one is still loaded. If I exit and start the server again the changes show.

Not sure if it’s a bug or something else, haven’t investigated it deeply. Maybe somebody noticed similar?

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It sounds like although the module has been recompiled it has not been reloaded. These are two separate operations.

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Yes. I verified it now:
Using 1.20.0-rc.1-otp-28 the reload doesn’t happen after running mix compile outside and recompile in shell.

Using 1.18.4 the reload does happen.

So is this a bug? :thinking: