OTP 24 Release Candidate 1 has been released

[Kenneth Lundin]

Yes, that's right.

/Kenneth,  Erlang/OTP, Ericsson

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 20:10 Håkan Mattsson <hawk.mattsson@REDACTED> wrote:

>
> Are both x86 64-bit and C++17  prerequisites for enabling the JIT-compiler?
>
> /Håkan
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:13 PM Henrik Nord X <henrik.x.nord@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> OTP 24 Release Candidate 1
>>
>> This is the first of three planned release candidates before the OTP 24
>> release.
>> The intention with this release is to get feedback from our users. All
>> feedback is welcome, even if it is only to say that it works for you.
>>
>> We encourage users to try it out and give us feedback either by creating
>> an issue here https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues
>> or by posting to the mailing list erlang-questions@REDACTED
>>
>> Erlang/OTP 24 is a new major release with new features, improvements as
>> well as a few incompatibilities. Some of the new
>> features are highlighted below.
>> Highlights erts, kernel, stdlib
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    The BeamAsm JIT-compiler has been added to Erlang/OTP and will give a
>>    significant performance boost for many applications.
>>    The JIT-compiler is enabled by default on most x86 64-bit platforms
>>    that have a C++ compiler that can compile C++17.
>>    To verify that a JIT enabled emulator is running you can use
>>    erlang:system_info(emu_flavor).
>>    -
>>
>>    A compatibility adaptor for gen_tcp to use the new socket API has
>>    been implemented (gen_tcp_socket).
>>    -
>>
>>    Extended error information for failing BIF calls as proposed in EEP
>>    54 has been implemented.
>>    -
>>
>>    Process aliases as outlined by EEP 53 has been introduced.
>>
>> compiler
>>
>>    - Compiler warnings and errors now include column numbers in addition
>>    to line numbers.
>>    - Variables bound between the keywords 'try' and 'of' can now be used
>>    in the clauses following the 'of' keyword
>>    (that is, in the success case when no exception was raised).
>>
>> ftp
>>
>> Add support for FTPES (explicit FTP over TLS).
>> ssl
>>
>>    - Support for the "early data" feature for TLS 1.3 servers and
>>    clients.
>>    - Make TLS handshakes in Erlang distribution concurrent.
>>
>> wx
>>
>>    - The application has been completely rewritten in order
>>    to use wxWidgets version 3 as its base.
>>    - Added support for wxWebView.
>>
>> edoc
>>
>>    - EDoc is now capable of emitting EEP-48 doc chunks. This means that,
>>    with some configuration, community projects
>>    can now provide documentation for shell_docs the same way that OTP
>>    libraries did since OTP 23.0.
>>
>> For more details about new features and potential incompatibilities see
>> https://erlang.org/download/OTP-24.0-rc1.README
>>
>> Pre built versions for Windows can be fetched here:
>> http://erlang.org/download/otp_win32_24.0-rc1.exe
>> http://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_24.0-rc1.exe
>>
>> Online documentation can be browsed here:
>> http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-12.0-rc1/doc/
>>
>> The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang
>> repository,
>> https://github.com/erlang/otp
>>
>>
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