OTP 23 Release Candidate 3 had been released

[Ulf Wiger]

I was hoping to work on a patch for this, but am a bit busy at the moment.

This problem has existed for a while. The mnesia feature isn't really
documented, but it's extremely useful.

You can create ordered indexes on tables. These behave just like
normal indexes, but have much better fan-out properties on unbalanced
index data sets.

However, ordered indexes can only be specified in
mnesia:create_table/2, not in mnesia:add_table_index/2:

Eshell V11.0  (abort with ^G)
1> mnesia:start().
ok
2> mnesia:create_table(a,[{index,[{val,ordered}]}]).
{atomic,ok}
3> mnesia:create_table(b, []).
{atomic,ok}
4> mnesia:add_table_index(b,{val,ordered}).
{aborted,{bad_type,{val,ordered}}}

The problem lies in mnesia_schema.erl using attr_tab_pos() to check
the index position. The index_pos() function should likely be used
instead, but there may be some other details needed.

BR,
Ulf W

Den ons 22 apr. 2020 kl 12:19 skrev Henrik Nord X <henrik.x.nord@REDACTED>:
>
> OTP 23 Release Candidate 3
>
> This is the third and last of three planned release candidates before the OTP 23 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.
>
> Erlang/OTP 23 is a new major release with new features, improvements as well as a few incompatibilities.
>
> Highlights (rc3)
>
> Apart from the changes below, this third pre-release contains only minor fixes.
>
> Potential Incompatibilities
>
> SSL:
>
> Support for SSL 3.0 is completely removed.
> TLS 1.3 is added to the list of default supported versions.
>
> erl_interface: Removed the deprecated parts of erl_interface
> (erl_interface.h and essentially all C functions with prefix erl_).
> The deprecated erlang:get_stacktrace/0 BIF now returns an empty list instead of a stacktrace.
> erlang:get_stacktrace/0 is scheduled for removal in OTP 24.
> ...
>
> Highlights (rc2)
>
> ssh:
>
> OpenSSH 6.5 introduced a new file representation of
> keys called openssh-key-v1. This is now supported with the exception of
> handling encrypted keys.
> Algorithm configuration could now be done in a .config file.
> This is useful for example to enable an algorithm that
> is disabled by default without need to change the code.
>
> ssl:
>
> Support for the middlebox compatibility mode makes the TLS 1.3 handshake
> look more like a TLS 1.2 handshake and increases the chance of successfully
> establishing TLS 1.3 connections through legacy middleboxes.
> Add support for key exchange with Edward curves and PSS-RSA padding in
> signature verification
>
> The possibility to run Erlang distribution without
> relying on EPMD has been extended. To achieve this a
> couple of new options to the inet distribution has been
> added.
>
> -dist_listen false Setup the distribution
> channel, but do not listen for incoming connection.
> -erl_epmd_port Port Configure a default port that
> the built-in EPMD client should return.
> ...
>
> A first EXPERIMENTAL socket backend to
> gen_tcp and inet has been implemented. gen_udp and gen_sctp will follow.
> Putting {inet_backend, socket} as first option to listen() or connect() makes it easy to try this for
> existing code
>
> Highlights (rc1)
>
> A new module erpc in kernel which implements an enhanced subset of the operations provided by the rpc module. Enhanced in the sense that it makes it possible to distinguish between returned value, raised exceptions and other errors. erpc also has better performance and scalability than the original rpc implementation. This by utilizing the newly introduced spawn_request() BIF. Also the rpc module benefits from these improvements by utilizing erpc when possible.
> Scalability and performance Improvements plus new functionality regarding distributed spawn operations.
> In binary matching, the size of the segment to be matched is now allowed to be a guard expression (EEP-52)
> When matching with maps the keys can now be guard expressions (EEP-52).
> ssh: support for TCP/IP port forwarding, a.k.a tunneling a.k.a as tcp-forward/direct-tcp is implemented. In the OpenSSH client, this corresponds to the options -L and -R.
> Allow underscores in numeric literals to improve readability. Examples: 123_456_789, 16#1234_ABCD.
> New functions in the shell for displaying documentation for Erlang modules, functions and types. The
> functions are:
>
> h/1,2,3 -- Print the documentation for a Module:Function/Arity.
> ht/1,2,3 -- Print the type documentation for a Module:Type/Arity.
> The embedded documentation is created as docchunks (EEP 48) when building the Erlang/OTP documentation.
>
> kernel: The module pg with a new implementation of distributed named process groups is introduced. The old module pg2 is deprecated and scheduled for removal in OTP 24.
> Our tool chain for building the Windows packages is upgraded with new C++ compiler, Java compiler, OpenSSL libraries and wxWidgets versions. We are now using WSL (the Linux Subsystem for Windows when building) which makes it easier to handle the build environment.
> ...
>
> For more details see
> http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_23.0-rc3.readme
>
> Pre built versions for Windows can be fetched here:
> http://erlang.org/download/otp_win32_23.0-rc3.exe
> http://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_23.0-rc3.exe
>
> Online documentation can be browsed here:
> http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-11.0-rc3/doc
> The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang repository,
> https://github.com/erlang/otp
>
>