Highlights
- Erlang/OTP has been ported to the realtime operating system OSE.
- Maps, a new dictionary data type (experimental)
- A more natural mapping from ASN.1 OCTET STRING and BIT STRING to Erlang types, and other ASN.1 improvements and optimizations
- The
{active, N} socket option for TCP, UDP, and SCTP
- A new (optional) scheduler utilization balancing mechanism
- Migration of memory carriers has been enabled by default on all ERTS internal memory allocators
- Increased garbage collection tenure rate
- Experimental “dirty schedulers” functionality
- Funs can now be given names
- Miscellaneous unicode support enhancements
- A new version scheme for OTP its applications has been introduced
- mnesia: The time for inserting locks for a transaction with large number of locks is reduced significantly.
- crypto: Add aes_cfb8 cypher to crypto:block_encrypt and block_decrypt.
- diameter: Add result code counters for CEA, DWA, and DPA.