This document describes the major new features of and changes to Erlang 5.4/OTP R10B, compared to Erlang 5.3/OTP R9C with focus on the major completely new things which has not already been delivered as patches to R9C. Some of the new features and changes have already been delivered as patches to R9C and/or R9B. For Open Source users this document can also serve as a good approximation to the differences compared to R9C-2 (corresponding to OTP patchlevel 663).For more detailed information, please refer to the release notes for the individual applications.
c_report
has been introduced for C
back-ends (client and server). If that option is set, encoding/decoding
errors will be reported to stderr
. This should make debugging
much easier than before.