[erlang-questions] Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released

[Dan Gudmundsson]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:16 AM Lloyd R. Prentice <lloyd@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Let me be one of many to express deep appreciation for the hard work of
> the Erlang dev team!
>
> Mnesia_ext may definitely fit into my current work-in-progress. Can you
> point me to docs?
>
>
There are no docs and there where no docs in the patch sent. :-/

The api is still experimental, until you/we have something that works
for more than one usage of the api.

There is a test module that basically wraps ets for the few tests I have
done.

More PR's with tests and docs are appreciated.

/Dan

Thanks again,
>
> LRP
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 22, 2016, at 6:18 AM, Kenneth Lundin <kenneth@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> 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 <http://github.com/erlang> 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
>
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