2 Scheduled for Removal
2.1 Introduction
This document list all functionality in Erlang/OTP that currently are scheduled for removal. For more information regarding the strategy regarding removal of functionality see the documentation of Support, Compatibility, Deprecations, and Removal.
2.2 OTP 25
http_uri
Since OTP 21 the recommended module to handle URIs is uri_string. The module http_uri does not provide a implementation that satisfies the RFC. Formally deprecated since OTP-23
2.3 OTP 24
Crypto Old API
The Old API will be removed as of OTP 24. The support was formally deprecated as of OTP 23.
For replacement functions see the New API.
pg2
pg2 is as of OTP 23 deprecated and will be removed in OTP 24.
Distributed Disk Logs
The distributed disk_log feature is as of OTP 23 deprecated and will be removed in OTP 24.
2.4 OTP 23
VxWorks Support
Some parts of OTP has had limited VxWorks support, such as for example erl_interface. This support will be removed as of OTP 23. This limited support was formally deprecated as of OTP 22
Legacy parts of erl_interface
The old legacy erl_interface library (functions with prefix erl_) will be removed as of OTP 23. These parts of erl_interface has been informally deprecated for a very long time, and was formally deprecated in OTP 22. You typically want to replace the usage of the erl_interface library with the use of the ei library which also is part of the erl_interface application.
httpd_conf module
API functions in the module called httpd_conf was deprecated in favour of standard modules such as lists, strings, fillib and erlang. Formally deprecated as of OTP 18.
inets - httpd Apache config files
API functions in the module called httpd_conf was deprecated in favour of standard modules such as lists, strings, fillib and erlang. Formally deprecated as of OTP 18.
SSL/TLS
For security reasons SSL-3.0 is no longer supported at all.