Erlang/OTP 17.0 is a new major release with new features, characteristics
improvements, as well as some minor incompatibilities.
Some highlights of the release are:
- Erlang/OTP has been ported to the realtime operating system OSE.
- Maps, a new dictionary data type (experimental)
- A more natural mapping from ASN.1 OCTET STRING and BIT STRING to Erlang
types, and other ASN.1 improvements and optimizations
- The {active, N} socket option for TCP, UDP, and SCTP
- A new (optional) scheduler utilization balancing mechanism
- Migration of memory carriers has been enabled by default on all ERTS
internal memory allocators
- Increased garbage collection tenure rate
- Experimental "dirty schedulers" functionality
- Funs can now be given names
- Miscellaneous unicode support enhancements
- A new version scheme for OTP its applications has been introduced
Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
OTP R16B03-1 is a service release which corrects a few issues found in
the R16B03 release. The corrections are:
- The ODBC application was missing in the prebuilt Windows installers
- 3 corrections in the SSL application:
- Add missing validation of the server_name_indication option and test for
its explicit use.
- Elliptic curve selection in server mode now properly selects a curve
suggested by the client, if possible.
- The server did not indicate support for secure renegotiation during TLS
extension handling.
- In the syntax tools application a bug was introduced which broke
reverting of local funs. This is now corrected (thanks to Anthony
Ramine)
- wx - Solved a problem which caused the debugger to crash when closing a
window. Fixed static linking on Mac.
- xmerl - Fixed a problem in the SAX-parser when the header of the next
document was appearing in the buffer when using the
xmerl_sax_parser:stream/2 function.
Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Erlang builds two emulators depending on whether SMP is supported or
not. If it is known that the target does not support SMP, turning off
the SMP emulator saves compile time and reduces the size of the
installation.
Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This is required for building the 'crypto', 'odbc', 'ssh'
and 'ssl' Erlang applications. These apps are skipped
regardless of whether they're enabled and their dependencies
can be met if this environment variable isn't set.
Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
This is required to build custom port drivers/NIFs or code that
uses erl_interface.
Signed-off-by: Hans Bulfone <hans@nil.at>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
