View Source EDoc Release Notes
This document describes the changes made to the EDoc application.
Edoc 1.3
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
EEP 48 doc chunks now properly include links within
{@type }
macros.Own Id: OTP-18945 Aux Id: PR-8063
@hidden
now meanshidden
in EEP 48 doc chunks instead ofnone
.Own Id: OTP-18946 Aux Id: PR-8063
Improvements and New Features
There is a new
edoc_html_to_markdown
module that can be used to convert EEP-48application/html+erlang
to Markdown.Own Id: OTP-18947 Aux Id: PR-8063
The documentation has been migrated to use Markdown and ExDoc.
Own Id: OTP-18955 Aux Id: PR-8026
Edoc 1.2.1
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Emit <code> instead of <tt>.
Own Id: OTP-18782 Aux Id: PR-7643
Edoc 1.2
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Fix unused types warnings in internal edoc module.
Own Id: OTP-17550 Aux Id: GH-5094 PR-5106
Improvements and New Features
Add source file to the warning on skipped tags when generating EEP-48 style docs.
Own Id: OTP-17556 Aux Id: PR-5023
Fix the doc chunks generators to emit documentation even if there is not module level documentation.
Fix the doc chunks generators to respect the
@hidden
and@private
tags properly for both modules and functions.Own Id: OTP-17733 Aux Id: PR-5205
Edoc 1.1
Improvements and New Features
Add option
link_predefined_types
that is used to create links to erlang predefined types. This is mainly to be used by erl_docgen when creating the Erlang/OTP documentation.Own Id: OTP-17743 Aux Id: PR-5292
Edoc 1.0.1
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Fix broken documentation link in edoc_extract:file/4.
Own Id: OTP-17552 Aux Id: GH-5058
Edoc 1.0
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Fix so that the edoc_doclet option
file_suffix
also effects the links emitted into the module index.Own Id: OTP-17092
Improvements and New Features
EDoc, the Erlang documentation engine, hits version 1.0 with this release, which means a few changes.
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.The
@spec
and@type
EDoc tags have been deprecated. These are not supported with the new chunk-generating doclet and layout. Moreover, previously when there was a redundant@spec
tag and-spec
attribute defined for the same function, the@spec
tag would take precedence. Now, the-spec
attribute takes precedence and is more important. The same is true for redundant@type
tags and-type
attributes. Warnings are now emitted when such redundant entries are found.The
?NO_APP
macro inedoc_doclet.hrl
has been deprecated. Use the atomno_app
instead.See the Doc chunks chapter in the Edoc User's Guide for more details.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-16949 Aux Id: PR-2803 OTP-17192
Edoc has been updated to use
-spec
to document its own interface instead of@doc@
tags.Together with this change the inter-application linking for
-spec
style documentation has been improved.Own Id: OTP-17095 Aux Id: PR-2914
Allow user defined edoc macros to be functions.
Own Id: OTP-17153 Aux Id: PR-2674
Edoc 0.12
Improvements and New Features
Remove Inets dependency from EDoc.
Own Id: OTP-15999 Aux Id: PR-2317
Add support for overloaded Erlang specifications.
Own Id: OTP-16407 Aux Id: PR-2430
Refactored the internal handling of deprecated and removed functions.
Own Id: OTP-16469
Edoc 0.11
Improvements and New Features
Correct links in the documentation.
Own Id: OTP-15761
Edoc 0.10
Improvements and New Features
Print a helpful message explaining that adding
{preprocess, true}
can help if reading a source file fails.Own Id: OTP-15605 Aux Id: ERL-841
Edoc 0.9.4
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Improved documentation.
Own Id: OTP-15190
Edoc 0.9.3
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Types and function specifications including the
map/0
type are pretty-printed correctly.Own Id: OTP-15117
Improvements and New Features
Update to use the new string api instead of the old.
Own Id: OTP-15036
Edoc 0.9.2
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
The map type is correctly denoted as
map/0
in function specifications and types.Own Id: OTP-14777
Edoc 0.9.1
Improvements and New Features
Tools are updated to show Unicode atoms correctly.
Own Id: OTP-14464
Edoc 0.9
Improvements and New Features
To support stable builds,
edoc
no longer includes time stamps in the footer for generated files.Own Id: OTP-14277
Miscellaneous updates due to atoms containing arbitrary Unicode characters.
Own Id: OTP-14285
Edoc 0.8.1
Improvements and New Features
Document the function tags
@param
and@returns
.Own Id: OTP-13930 Aux Id: PR-1175
Edoc 0.8
Improvements and New Features
Improve types and specs in OTP documentation generated from Erlang source files.
Own Id: OTP-13720 Aux Id: ERL-120
Edoc 0.7.19
Improvements and New Features
Handle typed record fields.
Own Id: OTP-13558
Edoc 0.7.18
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Assign correct names to list arguments.
Own Id: OTP-13234 Aux Id: ERL-63
Improvements and New Features
Unless the
sort_functions
option istrue
,edoc_layout
does not sort functions.Own Id: OTP-13302
Edoc 0.7.17
Improvements and New Features
Remove functionality related to packages
Own Id: OTP-12431
Edoc 0.7.16
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Maps: Properly align union typed assoc values in documentation
Own Id: OTP-12190
Edoc 0.7.15
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Fix spec to doc generation from erl_docgen and edoc for maps
Own Id: OTP-12058
Edoc 0.7.14
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
The default encoding for Erlang source files is now UTF-8. As a temporary measure to ease the transition from the old default of Latin-1, if EDoc encounters byte sequences that are not valid UTF-8 sequences, EDoc will re-try in Latin-1 mode. This workaround will be removed in a future release.
Own Id: OTP-12008
Edoc 0.7.13
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications:
asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger, dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe, inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh, syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx, xmerl
A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP.
(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)
Own Id: OTP-11744
Edoc 0.7.12.1
Improvements and New Features
The encoding of the
notes.xml
file has been changed from latin1 to utf-8 to avoid future merge problems.Own Id: OTP-11310
Edoc 0.7.12
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
EDoc sometimes failed to associate a comment with the preceding type declaration. This bug has been fixed. (Thanks to Serge Aleynikov for reporting the bug.)
Own Id: OTP-10866
Improvements and New Features
Miscellaneous updates due to Unicode support.
Own Id: OTP-10820
Edoc 0.7.11
Improvements and New Features
Since EDoc 0.7.7 (R14B02) separate values of union types can be annotated. However, the parser has hitherto chosen not to add the necessary parentheses due to backwards compatibility.
From this release on code traversing the output of
edoc_parser
needs to take care of parentheses around separate values of union types. Examples of such code are layout modules and doclet modules.* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-10195
Support for Unicode has been implemented.
Own Id: OTP-10302
Where necessary a comment stating encoding has been added to Erlang files. The comment is meant to be removed in Erlang/OTP R17B when UTF-8 becomes the default encoding.
Own Id: OTP-10630
Edoc 0.7.10
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
List behaviour callbacks in Edoc when using -callback attribute. (Thanks to Magnus Henoch.)
Added special case for file names under Windows. (Thanks to Beads Land-Trujillo.)
Own Id: OTP-10174
Edoc 0.7.9.1
Improvements and New Features
Miscellaneous documentation build updates
Own Id: OTP-9813
Edoc 0.7.9
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
no_return
is a new built-in type.Own Id: OTP-9350
synchronized with edoc development version
forgot to ensure that xmerl is found in path for include_lib to work
fix -spec declaration that doesn't work in R13B04
eliminate warnings about unused imports
removed CVS-keywords from source files (Thanks to Richard Carlsson )
Own Id: OTP-9463
Add a proplist() type
Recently I was adding specs to an API and found that there is no canonical proplist() type defined. (Thanks to Ryan Zezeski)
Own Id: OTP-9499
Removed some never-matching clauses reported by dialyzer Fix macro expansion in comments following Erlang types URI-escape bytes as two hex digits always (reported by Alfonso De Gregorio) Updated author e-mail Recognize some more URI schemas in wiki text, in particular https (Thanks to Richard Carlsson)
Own Id: OTP-9590
Edoc 0.7.8
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Fix infinite loop for malformed edoc input
When processing an edoc comment with ``` in it, if the comment ends without a matching ''' then an infinite loop occurs in the function edoc_wiki:strip_empty_lines/2. This change fixes that by adding a clause to return from the function upon the end of the comment input. This allows an error to be thrown to indicate the problem, which is the same behaviour as leaving either `` or ` unmatched. (Thanks to Taylor Venable)
Own Id: OTP-9165
Bugs concerning the option
report_missing_types
that was added in EDoc-0.7.7 have been corrected: the option was misspelled in the source, and local definitions as well as the function tags@private
and@hidden
were not handled correctly. (Thanks to Manolis Papadakis.)Own Id: OTP-9301
Edoc 0.7.7
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Add encoding when parsing Wiki text. EDoc used to fail on strings such as "äåö". (Thanks to Richard Carlsson.)
Own Id: OTP-9109
Improvements and New Features
It is now possible to use Erlang specifications and types in EDoc documentation. Erlang specifications and types will be used unless there is also a function specification (
@spec
) or a type alias (@type
) with the same name. In the current implementation the placement of-spec
matters: it should be placed where the@spec
would otherwise have been placed.Not all Erlang types are included in the documentation, but only those exported by some
export_type
declaration or used by some documented Erlang specification (-spec
).There is currently no support for overloaded Erlang specifications.
The syntax definitions of EDoc have been augmented to cope with most of the Erlang types. (But we recommend that Erlang types should be used instead.)
edoc:read_source()
takes one new option,report_missing_types
.edoc_layout:module()
takes one new option,pretty_printer
.Own Id: OTP-8525
The
edoc_lib
module is meant to be private, but since it is referred to from other man pages it has been included in the OTP documentation. The modifications introduced in this ticket make all functions private except those referred to from other pages.Own Id: OTP-9110
Edoc 0.7.6.8
Improvements and New Features
Compiler warnings were eliminated.
Own Id: OTP-8855
Edoc 0.7.6.7
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Edoc now uses the new API functions to
inets
instead of the deprecated ones.Own Id: OTP-8749
Edoc 0.7.6.6
Improvements and New Features
The documentation is now possible to build in an open source environment after a number of bugs are fixed and some features are added in the documentation build process.
- The arity calculation is updated.
- The module prefix used in the function names for bif's are removed in the generated links so the links will look like "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2" instead of "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2".
- Enhanced the menu positioning in the html documentation when a new page is loaded.
- A number of corrections in the generation of man pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan)
- The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so OTP's build process can be used for non OTP applications.
Own Id: OTP-8343
Edoc 0.7.6.5
Improvements and New Features
The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.
Own Id: OTP-8201
Edoc 0.7.6.4
Improvements and New Features
Miscellaneous updates.
Own Id: OTP-8190
Edoc 0.7.6.3
Improvements and New Features
The copyright notices have been updated.
Own Id: OTP-7851
Edoc 0.7.6.2
Improvements and New Features
Minor updates.
Own Id: OTP-7642
Edoc 0.7.6.1
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Correction to work with new versions of STDLIB that no longer has the
erl_internal:obsolete/3
function.Own Id: OTP-7539
Edoc 0.7.6
Improvements and New Features
Minor changes.
Own Id: OTP-7388
Edoc 0.7.5
Improvements and New Features
Minor updates, mostly cosmetic.
Own Id: OTP-7243
Edoc 0.7.3
Improvements and New Features
Minor Makefile changes.
Own Id: OTP-6689
Dialyzer warnings were eliminated.
Own Id: OTP-6737
EDoc 0.7.2
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Some missing files have been added:
~/include/edoc_doclet.hrl
,~/priv/edoc.dtd
,~/priv/erlang.png
Own Id: OTP-6457
Improvements and New Features
- Undefined macros only cause warnings, not errors.
- New, built-in
@version
macro. - Documented the
@docfile
and@headerfile
generic tags. - Added recognition of
"TODO:"
as a wiki equivalent for@todo
tags. - Added documentation about overview pages.
'where'
and','
are allowed as separators in specs.- Corrected ambiguity in spec grammar (possible incompatibility issue - parentheses may need to be added in some cases, in existing code).
- Experimental (and undocumented) support for
@param
and@return
tags and corresponding"..."
annotations on@spec
parameters.
* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *
Own Id: OTP-6568
EDoc 0.7.1
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
Fixed some broken links in the documentation.
Own Id: OTP-6419
EDoc 0.7.0
Miscellaneous changes.