What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-02-12)

[Björn Gustavsson]

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[Graduated]

* bd/doc-fixes (erts, mnesia, stdlib) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
 + Fix minor documentation errors (3cb8a87)

* kr/crypto_makefile (crypto) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
 + Fix Makefile permission problem of crypto library on FreeBSD Erlang/OTP building (a7491f2)

* ks/erts (erts) (2010-02-05) 2 commits
 + hipe_bif0.c: Remove $Id$ (5cd9121)
 + erts/preloaded: Add types and specs (f28ac67)

* ks/stdlib-cleanups (stdlib) (2010-02-08) 1 commit
 + stdlib: clean up as suggested by tidier (48654b0)

* mp/et-app-file (et) (2010-02-11) 1 commit
 + unbreak event tracer's app.src (c3faaf4)

* ms/pcre-security (erts, stdlib) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
 + Fix CVE-2008-2371 (outer level option with alternatives caused crash). (bb6370a)

* yh/packet_option_for_new_ssl_send (ssl) (2010-02-11) 4 commits
 + Fixed ssl:setopts(Socket, binary) which was didn't work for 'new' ssl. (464f2ba)
 + Fixed bug file cache bug and improved the error messages. (a39cf4a)
 + Allow <c>ssl:listen/2</c> to be called with option {ssl_imp, old}. (590a061)
 + prepend packet size bytes in ssl:send() in new_ssl implementation (f435df0)

Dan Gudmundsson corrected error handling and added a test case
to the original commit, and also added three independent bug fixes
to the same branch (for convenience).

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[New topics]

* bd/mnesia-activity-subscription (mnesia) (2010-02-12) 1 commit
 - Add mnesia activity subscription message (69816f8)

* ks/cleanups-after-r13b04 (kernel, stdlib) (2010-02-10) 4 commits
 - stdlib: Use fun object instead of {M,F} tuple (9825e53)
 - ets: Cleanup as suggested by tidier (4d656fd)
 - kernel: Add types and specs + cleanup (f1c6d01)
 - kernel: Clean up as suggested by tidier (c695f3f)

* ks/hipe (dialyzer, hipe, typer) (2010-02-10) 4 commits
 - dialyzer: New version for the R13B04 release (49d7f36)
 - hipe: Miscellaneous additions (6049203)
 - typer: New version for the R13B04 release (6d1f40f)
 - Fix a HiPE compiler bug evaluating an expression that throws system_limit (665bcd7)

To be included in R13B04.

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[Stalled]

* kr/gs-browser (gs) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
 - Change lib/gs/src/tool_utils.erl to select multiple browsers other than Netscape (802d159)

This topic branch introduces a new call to the deprecated regexp module.

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[Cooking]

* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit
 - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9)

Being reviewed.

* bg/erl_bif_types (hipe) (2010-02-03) 2 commits
 - Add types for erts_debug:dist_ext_to_term/2 (249f73a)
 - erl_bif_types: add 'http_bin' as a valid packet option (7c72a77)

* bg/safer-local_to_univ (erts) (2010-02-11) 1 commit
 - erl_time_sup.c: test for error return from mktime() (0f62f0b)

* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, hipe, kernel) (2010-01-31) 4 commits
 - Crudely fix return type for the lists:key{search,find,member}/3 (0e3ab3e)
 - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (c9fc04b)
 - Disable native code if on_load is used (bd4fe28)
 - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (8aadc4c)

This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test
cases and is never intended to graduate.

* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit
 - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (abe0759)

The author of this topic branch has found the real reason for
the problem and has made some progress in resolving it.

* dgud/emacs-mode (tools) (2010-01-26) 2 commits
 - Added the old style skeletons, and a variable to change. (2cbe853)
 - Move code skeletons to a separate file. Use the updated skeletons from the Erlware Mode. (b4fd161)

* jn/sasl-format_report (sasl) (2010-01-27) 1 commit
 - Added sasl_report:format_report/3 to return a string rather than send an io (ee8f29f)

* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2010-01-12) 2 commits
 - squash! fix snprintf for Windows (bf2708d)
 - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (7cbc437)

Approved in principle by the OTP Technical Board; now awaits a closer
review of the implementation. Unfortunately, will not make it for R13B04.

* kl/extensibility-implied (asn1) (2010-02-05) 3 commits
 - Updated ticket reference (a1a09bc)
 - Add support for EXTENSIBILITY IMPLIED, SET/SEQ OF NamedType (debc35b)
 - Updated version number for the next version of ASN1 (48d0efe)

* kr/odbc-netinet (odbc) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
 - Fix ODBC compilation error on FreeBSD by adding netinet/in.h to #include macros (5c6be09)

* kr/sasl-typo-fix (sasl) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
 - sasl: Fix typo (b798e9b)

* ks/cleanups (asn1, debugger, docbuilder, gs, os_mon, parsetools, percept, runtime_tools, sasl, wx) (2010-02-07) 11 commits
 - percept: Modernize types and specs and clean up as suggested by tidier (10422fb)
 - debugger: Clean up as suggested by tidier (cf178ed)
 - docbuilder: Clean up as suggested by tidier (222ae3f)
 - parsetools: Modernize types and specs + cleanup by tidier (5659cd0)
 - runtime_tools: Modernize specs (774e7fd)
 - sasl: Eliminate tuple used as fun (f48ed8b)
 - sasl: Add missing modules to app file (45a39a2)
 - asn1: Clean up as suggested by tidier (405578b)
 - os_mon: Modernize types and specs (7b7f8b7)
 - wx: Clean up as suggested by tidier (9b79d9b)
 - gs: Clean up as suggested by tidier (afd194b)

* tj/asn1_macro_prefix (asn1) (2010-02-04) 1 commit
 - Add support for prefixing macro names generated by the compiler (e88fa38)

* va/rb-improvements (sasl) (2010-02-06) 5 commits
 - uses module re for regular expressions (f15b05a)
 - New function to filter reports by date (58f4cd1)
 - New rb:filter/1 function to ease report filtering (55eccfa)
 - Add rb:re/1 to grep reports using the re module (202d6ac)
 - Fix minor typo in read_report/1 (7d645b7)