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OTP 20.3

14 Mar 09:52
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Erlang/OTP 20.3 is the third service release for the 20 major release.
The service release contains mostly bug fixes and characteristics
improvements but also some new features.

Some highlights for 20.3

  • ssl:

    • Added new API functions to facilitate cipher suite
      handling
  • erts, observer:

    • More crash dump info such as: process binary virtual
      heap stats, full info for process causing out-of-mem
      during GC, more port related info, and dirty scheduler
      info.
  • inets:

    • Add support for unix domain sockets in the http client.

You can find the README and the full listing of changes for this
service release at

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.3.readme

The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can be
downloaded from

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.3.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.3.exe
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_20.3.exe

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program.

For installation instructions please consult the README file that is
part
of the distribution.

The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official
Erlang
repository, https://github.com/erlang/otp with tag OTP-20.3

The on-line documentation can be found at: http://www.erlang.org/doc/
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix
manual files

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_20.3.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_20.3.tar.gz

Please report any new issues via Erlang/OTPs public issue tracker

https://bugs.erlang.org

We want to thank all of those who sent us patches, suggestions and bug
reports!

Thank you!

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson

OTP 20.2

13 Dec 09:32
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Erlang/OTP 20.2 is the second service release for the 20 major release.
The service release contains mostly bug fixes and characteristics
improvements but also some new features.

Some highlights for 20.2

  • crypto, ssl:

    • The crypto API is extended to use private/public keys
      stored in an Engine for sign/verify or encrypt/decrypt
      operations.
  • The ssl application provides an API to use this new
    engine concept in TLS.

  • ssh:

    • SSH can now fetch the host key from the private keys
      stored in an Engine. See the crypto application for
      details about Engines.
  • ssl:

    • A new command line option -ssl_dist_optfile has been
      added to facilitate specifying the many options needed
      when using SSL as the distribution protocol.
  • stdlib:

    • Improve performance of the new string functionality
      when handling ASCII characters.

You can find the README and the full listing of changes for this
service release at

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.2.readme

The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can be
downloaded from

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.2.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.2.exe
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_20.2.exe

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program.

For installation instructions please consult the README file that is
part of the distribution.

The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official
Erlang repository, https://github.com/erlang/otp with tag OTP-20.2

The on-line documentation can be found at: http://www.erlang.org/doc/
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix
manual files

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_20.2.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_20.2.tar.gz

Please report any new issues via Erlang/OTPs public issue tracker

https://bugs.erlang.org

We want to thank all of those who sent us patches, suggestions and bug
reports!

Thank you!

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson

OTP 20.1

26 Sep 14:45
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Erlang/OTP 20.1 is the first service release for the 20 major release.
The service release contains mostly bug fixes and characteristics improvements but also some new features.

Some highlights for 20.1

  • crypto, public_key: Extend crypto and public_key functions sign and verify with:

    • support for RSASSA-PS padding for signatures and for
      saltlength setting
    • X9.31 RSA padding.
    • sha, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512 for dss
      signatures as mentioned in NIST SP 800-57 Part 1.
    • ripemd160 to be used for rsa signatures.
  • A new tuple in crypto:supports/0 reports supported MAC
    algorithms.

  • diameter:

    • Add service option decode_format to allow incoming messages to be decoded into maps
      instead of records.
    • Decode performance has been improved.
    • Add service/transport option avp_dictionaries to give better support for dictionaries only defining AVPs.
  • erts: Upgraded the ERTS internal PCRE library from version 8.40 to version 8.41.

  • erts, kernel, tools: Profiling with lock counting can now be fully toggled at runtime in
    the lock counting emulator (-emu_type lcnt). Everything
    is enabled by default to match the old behavior, but
    specific categories can be toggled at will with minimal
    runtime overhead when disabled. Refer to the
    documentation on lcnt:rt_mask/1 for details.

    lcnt:collect and lcnt:clear will no longer block all
    other threads in the runtime system. This makes it possible to run the lock counting
    under heavier load.

  • erts: The zlib module has been refactored and all its operations will now yield appropriately,
    allowing them to be used freely in concurrent applications.

  • erts, tools: Add erlang:iolist_to_iovec/1, which converts an
    iolist() to an erlang:iovec(), which is suitable for use
    with enif_inspect_iovec().

  • erts: Add new nif API functions for managing an I/O Queue.
    The added functions are: enif_ioq_create(), enif_ioq_destroy(), enif_ioq_enq_binary(),
    enif_ioq_enqv(), enif_ioq_deq(), enif_ioq_peek(), enif_inspect_iovec(), enif_free_iovec()

  • observer/crashdump_viewer:

    • Reading of crash dumps with many binaries is optimized.
    • A progress bar is shown when the detail view for a process is opened.
    • The cdv script now sets ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS=0 to
      avoid generating a new crash dump from the node running the Crashdump Viewer.
  • observer:
    Add system statistics and limits to frontpage in
    observer.

  • public_key, ssl**:
    Improved error propagation and reports

  • ssh: A new option modify_algorithms is implemented. It
    enables specifying changes on the default algorithms
    list. See the reference manual and the SSH User's Guide
    chapter "Configuring algorithms in SSH".

  • tools/xref: The predefined Xref analysis locals_not_used now understands
    the -on_load() attribute and does not report unused functions.

  • tools/fprof: When sampling multiple processes and analyzing
    with totals set to true, the output now sums together
    all caller and callee entries which concerns the same
    function. Previous behaviour was to report each
    contributing entry separately.

You can find the README and the full listing of changes for this service release at

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.1.readme

The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can be
downloaded from

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.1.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.1.exe
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_20.1.exe

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program.

For installation instructions please consult the README file that is part
of the distribution.

The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang
repository, https://github.com/erlang/otp with tag OTP-20.1

The on-line documentation can be found at: http://www.erlang.org/doc/
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_20.1.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_20.1.tar.gz

Please report any new issues via Erlang/OTPs public issue tracker

https://bugs.erlang.org

We want to thank all of those who sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports!

Thank you!

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson

OTP 20.0

21 Jun 12:21
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Erlang/OTP 20.0

Erlang/OTP 20.0 is a new major release with new features, quite a few (characteristics) improvements, as well as a few incompatibilities.

There are only minor changes compared to the second release candidate, some of them listed below:

  • ERTS:
    • In the OTP 20 release candidates the function erlang:term_to_binary/1 changed the encoding of all atoms from ATOM_EXT to ATOM_UTF8_EXT and SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT. This is now changed so that only atoms actually containing unicode characters are encoded with the UTF8 tags while other atoms are encoded ATOM_EXT just as before.

Here are some of the most important news in OTP 20:

Potential Incompatibilities

  • ERTS:

    • The non SMP Erlang VM is deprecated and not built by default
    • Remove deprecated erlang:hash/2
    • erlang:statistics/1 with scheduler_wall_time now also includes info about dirty CPU schedulers.
    • The new purge strategy introduced in OTP 19.1 is mandatory and slightly incompatible for processes holding funs
      see erlang:check_process_code/3.
    • The NIF library reload is not supported anymore.
    • Atoms can now contain arbitrary unicode characters which means that the DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS capability in the distribution protocol must be supported if an OTP 20 node should accept the connection with another node or library. Third party libraries which uses the distribution protocol need to be updated with this.
  • Asn1: Deprecated module and functions removed (asn1rt, asn1ct:encode/3 and decode/3)

  • Ssh: client only option in a call to start a daemon will now fail

Highlights

Erts:

  • Dirty schedulers enabled and supported on VM with SMP support.
  • support for “dirty” BIFs and “dirty” GC.
  • erlang:garbage_collect/2 for control of minor or major GC
  • Erlang literals are no longer copied when sending messages.
  • Improved performance for large ETS tables, >256 entries (except ordered_set)
  • erlang:system_info/1 atom_count and atom_limit
  • Reduced memory pressure by converting sub-binaries to heap-binaries during GC
  • enif_select, map an external event to message
  • Improvements of timers internally in the VM resulting in reduced memory consumption and more efficient administration for timers

Compiler:

  • Code generation for complicated guards is improved.
  • Warnings for repeated identical map keys. #{'a'=>1, 'b'=>2, 'a'=>3} will warn for the repeated key a.
  • By default there is now a warning when export_all is used. Can be disabled
  • Pattern matching for maps is optimized
  • New option deterministic to omit path to source + options info the BEAM file.
  • Atoms may now contain arbitrary unicode characters.
  • compile:file/2 has an option to include extra chunks in the BEAM file.

Misc other applications

  • Significantly updated string module with unicode support and many new functions
  • crypto now supports OpenSSL 1.1
  • Unnamed ets tables optimized
  • gen_fsm is deprecated and replaced by gen_statem
  • A new event manager to handle a subset of OS signals in Erlang
  • Optimized sets add_element, del_element and union
  • Added rand:jump/0-1
  • When a gen_server crashes, the stacktrace for the client will be printed to facilitate debugging.
  • take/2 has been added to dict, orddict, and gb_trees.
  • take_any/2 has been added to gb_trees
  • erl_tar support for long path names and new file formats
  • asn1: the new maps option changes the representation of SEQUENCE to be maps instead of records
  • A TLS client will by default call public_key:pkix_verify_hostname/2 to verify the hostname
  • ssl: DTLS documented in the API, experimental
  • ssh: improving security, removing and adding algorithms
  • New math:fmod/2

For more details see
http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.0.readme

Pre built versions for Windows can be fetched here:
http://erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.0.exe
http://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_20.0.exe

On line documentation can be browsed here:
www.erlang.org/doc/

Thanks to all contributors.

OTP 20.0 Release Candidate 2

31 May 16:12
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OTP 20 Release Candidate 2

This is the second of two release candidates before the OTP 20 release. The intention with this release is that you as users try it and give us feedback if something does not work as expected. Could be a bug, an unexpected incompatibility, a significant change of characteristics in negative direction, etc.

There are only minor changes compared to the first release candidate, some of them listed below:

  • erts: ./configure --enable-lock-counter will enable building of an additional emulator that has support for
    lock counting. (The option previously existed, but would turn on lock counting in the default emulator
    being built.) To start the lock-counting emulator, use erl -emu_type lcnt.
  • kernel: Added the process_flag message_queue_data = off_heap to the code_server process in order to
    improve characteristics during code upgrade, which can generate a huge amount of messages.

Here are some of the most important news in OTP 20 (same as in RC1):

Potential Incompatibilities

  • ERTS:

    • The non SMP Erlang VM is deprecated and not built by default
    • Remove deprecated erlang:hash/2
    • erlang:statistics/1 with scheduler_wall_time now also includes info about dirty CPU schedulers.
    • The new purge strategy introduced in OTP 19.1 is mandatory and slightly incompatible for processes holding funs
      see erlang:check_process_code/3.
    • The NIF library reload is not supported anymore.
  • Asn1: Deprecated module and functions removed (asn1rt, asn1ct:encode/3 and decode/3)

  • Ssh: client only option in a call to start a daemon will now fail

Highlights

Erts:

  • Dirty schedulers enabled and supported on VM with SMP support.
  • support for “dirty” BIFs and “dirty” GC.
  • erlang:garbage_collect/2 for control of minor or major GC
  • Erlang literals are no longer copied when sending messages.
  • Improved performance for large ETS tables, >256 entries (except ordered_set)
  • erlang:system_info/1 atom_count and atom_limit
  • Reduced memory pressure by converting sub-binaries to heap-binaries during GC
  • enif_select, map an external event to message

Compiler:

  • Code generation for complicated guards is improved.
  • Warnings for repeated identical map keys. #{'a'=>1, 'b'=>2, 'a'=>3} will warn for the repeated key a.
  • By default there is now a warning when export_all is used. Can be disabled
  • Pattern matching for maps is optimized
  • New option deterministic to omit path to source + options info the BEAM file.
  • Atoms may now contain arbitrary unicode characters.
  • compile:file/2 has an option to include extra chunks in the BEAM file.

Misc other applications

  • Unnamed ets tables optimized
  • A new event manager to handle a subset of OS signals in Erlang
  • Optimized sets add_element, del_element and union
  • Added rand:jump/0-1
  • When a gen_server crashes, the stacktrace for the client will be printed to facilitate debugging.
  • take/2 has been added to dict, orddict, and gb_trees.
  • take_any/2 has been added to gb_trees
  • Significantly updated string module with unicode support
  • erl_tar support for long path names and new file formats
  • Dtls: Documented API, experimental
  • SSH: improving security, removing and adding algorithms
  • New math:fmod/2

For more details see
http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.0-rc2.readme

Per built versions for Windows can be fetched here:
http://erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.0-rc2.exe
http://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_20.0-rc2.exe

On line documentation can be browsed here:
www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-9.0-rc2/doc/

Thanks to all contributors.

OTP 20.0 Release Candidate 1

31 May 15:43
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OTP 20 Release Candidate 1

This is the first of two release candidates before the OTP 20 release. The intention with this release is that you as users try it and give us feedback if something does not work as expected. Could be a bug, an unexpected incompatibility, a significant change of characteristics in negative direction, etc.

Here are some of the most important news:

Potential Incompatibilities

  • ERTS:

    • The non SMP Erlang VM is deprecated and not built by default
    • Remove deprecated erlang:hash/2
    • erlang:statistics/1 with scheduler_wall_time now also includes info about dirty CPU schedulers.
    • The new purge strategy introduced in OTP 19.1 is mandatory and slightly incompatible for processes holding funs
      see erlang:check_process_code/3.
    • The NIF library reload is not supported anymore.
  • Asn1: Deprecated module and functions removed (asn1rt, asn1ct:encode/3 and decode/3)

  • Ssh: client only option in a call to start a daemon will now fail

Highlights

Erts:

  • Dirty schedulers enabled and supported on VM with SMP support.
  • support for “dirty” BIFs and “dirty” GC.
  • erlang:garbage_collect/2 for control of minor or major GC
  • Erlang literals are no longer copied when sending messages.
  • Improved performance for large ETS tables, >256 entries (except ordered_set)
  • erlang:system_info/1 atom_count and atom_limit
  • Reduced memory pressure by converting sub-binaries to heap-binaries during GC
  • enif_select, map an external event to message

Compiler:

  • Code generation for complicated guards is improved.
  • Warnings for repeated identical map keys. #{'a'=>1, 'b'=>2, 'a'=>3} will warn for the repeated key a.
  • By default there is now a warning when export_all is used. Can be disabled
  • Pattern matching for maps is optimized
  • New option deterministic to omit path to source + options info the BEAM file.
  • Atoms may now contain arbitrary unicode characters.
  • compile:file/2 has an option to include extra chunks in the BEAM file.

Misc other applications

  • Unnamed ets tables optimized
  • A new event manager to handle a subset of OS signals in Erlang
  • Optimized sets add_element, del_element and union
  • Added rand:jump/0-1
  • When a gen_server crashes, the stacktrace for the client will be printed to facilitate debugging.
  • take/2 has been added to dict, orddict, and gb_trees.
  • take_any/2 has been added to gb_trees
  • Significantly updated string module with unicode support
  • erl_tar support for long path names and new file formats
  • Dtls: Documented API, experimental
  • SSH: improving security, removing and adding algorithms
  • New math:fmod/2

For more details see
http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.0-rc1.readme

Per built versions for Windows can be fetched here:
http://erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.0-rc1.exe
http://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_20.0-rc1.exe

On line documentation can be browsed here:
www.erlang.org/documentation/doc-9.0-rc1/doc/

Thanks to all contributors.

OTP 19.3

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Erlang/OTP 19.3 is the third service release for the 19 major release.
The service release contains mostly bug fixes and characteristics improvements but also some new features.

Some highlights for 19.3

  • crypto, ssh: The implementation of the key exchange algorithms
    diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha* are optimized, up to
    a factor of 11 for the slowest ( = biggest and safest)
    group size.

  • dialyzer: The peak memory consumption is reduced.
    Analyzing modules with binary construction with huge
    strings is now much faster.

  • erts: A received SIGTERM signal to beam will generate a
    'stop' message to the init process and terminate the
    Erlang VM nicely. This is equivalent to calling
    init:stop/0.

  • kernel: The functions in the file module that take a list of
    paths (e.g. file:path_consult/2) will now continue to
    search in the path if the path contains something that
    is not a directory.

  • kernel: Two OTP processes that are known to receive many
    messages are rex (used by rpc) and error_logger.
    Those processes will now store unprocessed messages
    outside the process heap, which will potentially
    decrease the cost of garbage collections.

  • public_key: New function pkix_verify_hostname/2,3 implements
    certificate hostname checking. See the manual and RFC 6125.

  • public_key, ssh: The ssh host key fingerprint generation now also takes
    a list of algorithms and returns a list of
    corresponding fingerprints. See
    public_key:ssh_hostkey_fingerprint/2 and the option
    silently_accept_hosts in ssh:connect.

  • ssl: Move PEM cache to a dedicated process, to avoid making
    the SSL manager process a bottleneck. This improves
    scalability of TLS connections.

  • stdlib: filename:safe_relative_path/1 to sanitize a relative
    path has been added.

  • Thanks to more than 20 different contributors

You can find the README and the full listing of changes for this service release at

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.3.readme

The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can be
downloaded from

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.3.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_19.3.exe
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_19.3.exe

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program.

For installation instructions please consult the README file that is part
of the distribution.

The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang
repository, https://github.com/erlang/otp with tag OTP-19.3

The on-line documentation can be found at: http://www.erlang.org/doc/
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_19.3.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_19.3.tar.gz

Please report any new issues via Erlang/OTPs public issue tracker

https://bugs.erlang.org

We want to thank all of those who sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports!

Thank you!

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson

OTP 19.2

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Erlang/OTP 19.2 is the second service release for the 19 major release.
The service release contains mostly bug fixes and characteristics improvements.

Some highlights for 19.2

  • STDLIB: The new behaviour gen_statem has been improved with 3 new
    features: the possibility to use old style non-proxy timeouts
    for gen_statem:call/2,3, state entry code, and state
    timeouts. These are backwards compatible. Minor code and
    documentation improvements has been performed including a
    borderline semantics correction of timeout zero handling.
  • SSL: Experimental version of DTLS. It is runnable but not complete
    and cannot be considered reliable for production usage. To use
    DTLS add the option {protocol, dtls} to ssl:connect and ssl:listen.
  • SSH: Extended the option silently_accept_hosts for ssh:connect to
    make it possible for the client to check the SSH host key
    fingerprint string. Se the reference manual for SSH.
  • ~40 contributions since the previous service release OTP 19.1

You can find the README and the full listing of changes for this service release at

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.2.readme

The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can be
downloaded from

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.2.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_19.2.exe
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_19.2.exe

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program.

For installation instructions please consult the README file that is part
of the distribution.

The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang
repository, https://github.com/erlang/otp with tag OTP-19.2

The on-line documentation can be found at: http://www.erlang.org/doc/
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_19.2.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_19.2.tar.gz

Please report any new issues via Erlang/OTPs public issue tracker

https://bugs.erlang.org

We want to thank all of those who sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports!

Thank you!

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson

OTP 19.1

21 Sep 11:16
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Erlang/OTP 19.1 is a service release on the 19 track with mostly bug fixes,
but is does contain a number of new features and characteristics improvements
as well.

Some highlights of the release are:

  • erts: Improved dirty scheduler support. A purge of a module will not have to wait for completion of all ongoing dirty NIF calls.
  • erts: Improved accuracy of timeouts on MacOS X.
  • kernel: Add net_kernel:setopts/2 and net_kernel:getopts/2 to control options for distribution sockets in runtime.
  • asn1: Compiling multiple ASN.1 modules in the same directory with parallel make (make -j) should now be safe.
  • httpd: support for PUT and DELETE in mod_esi
  • ~30 contributions since 19.0

You can find the Release Notes with more detailed info at

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.1.readme

You can download the full source distribution from http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.1.tar.gz

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program. For installation instructions please read the README that is part of the distribution.

You can also find the source code at github.com in the official Erlang repository. Git tag OTP-19.1
https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/OTP-19.1

The Windows binary distributions can be downloaded from

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_19.1.exe
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_19.1.exe

You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_19.1.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_19.1.tar.gz

You can also read the documentation on-line here:
(see the Release Notes mentioned above for release notes which
are not updated in the doc, but the new functionality is)

http://www.erlang.org/doc/

We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports.

If you find bugs in Erlang/OTP report them via the public issue tracker at http://bugs.erlang.org

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson

OTP 19.0

22 Jun 10:32
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Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released

Erlang/OTP 19.0 is a new major release with new features, quite a few (characteristics) improvements, as well as a few incompatibilities.

Some highlights of the release are:

  • compiler, stdlib:
    • New preprocessor macros ?FUNCTION_NAME, ?FUNCTION_ARITY
    • New preprocessor directives -error(Term) and -warning(Term) to cause a compilation error or warning, respectively.
  • gen_statem a new state machine behavior
  • mnesia_ext: plugin of external storage solutions to mnesia
  • crypto: uses EVP interface in OpenSSL resulting in generally better performance and support for HW acceleration
  • ssh: performance improvements, uses the new gen_statem behavior
  • ssl: enhanced error log messages
  • dialyzer: the support for maps is very much extended both the type specification syntax and the type analysis.
  • erts:
    • erlang:open_port(spawn, ...) 3-5 times faster
    • tracing, extensive improvements (scalability, speed, match specifications on send/receive, support for lttng, ...)
    • dirty schedulers improved
    • per process configurable handling of message_queue
    • fast loading of multiple modules
    • max_heap_size process flag
  • erts/kernel:
    Experimental support for Unix Domain Sockets
    Example: gen_udp:open(0, [{ifaddr,{local,"/tmp/socket"}}])
  • and much more ....

You can find the Release Notes with more detailed info at

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.0.readme

You find the source code at github.com in the official Erlang repository.

Git tag OTP-19.0

https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/OTP-19.0

You can also read the documentation on-line here:
(see the Release Notes mentioned above for release notes which
are not updated in the doc, but the new functionality is)

http://www.erlang.org/doc

We also want to thank all of you that have contributed with new features, bug-fixes, suggestions and bug reports.

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson