Erlang/OTP R10B-1a is out
Bjorn Gustavsson
bjorn@REDACTED
Fri Nov 12 10:51:17 CET 2004
Bug fix release : otp_src_R10B-1a
Build from snapshot : 2004-11-11
The R10B-1a releases fixes a problem on Windows that the emulator
could not be started if Erlang/OTP was installed in a directory
with a short name, such as
C:\Program\erl5.4.2
This is a bug fix release 1a for the R10B release.
You can download the full source distribution from
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R10B-1a.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R10B-1a.readme (this file)
Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible
program. For instance, on MacOS X you need to use the 'gnutar' command;
you can't use the 'tar' command or StuffIt to unpack the sources.
For installation instructions please read the README that is part of
the distribution.
The Windows binary distribution can be downloaded from
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_R10B-1a.exe
The documentation at http://www.erlang.org will be updated. You can
also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_R10B-1a.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_R10B-1a.tar.gz
For some OTP applications there are more detailed release notes in the
HTML documentation.
We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and bug
reports,
The OTP Team
--- compiler --------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5198 A few minor issues code generation issues were corrected.
Although the generated code was correct, it was slightly
slower and larger than it needed to be.
A debug printout (that could be seen in rare circumstances)
has been removed.
not record_test(not_a_tuple, RecordTag) and similar
expressions in a guard would fail.
New options basic_validation and
strong_validation to do a quick check of the code of a
module. (Mainly useful for code generators.)
The inline option was not recognized if it appeared in
a -compile() directive inside the module.
Corrected some bugs in the undocumented feature
"parameterized modules".
OTP-5224 When the undocumented feature "parameterized modules" was
used, the ?MODULE macro did not work correctly.
--- erts ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5203 The ethread library was unnecessarily rebuilt multiple times
during the build process, also a debug version of the library
was build during the install phase. These unnecessary builds
have now been removed. Note, the content of the installed
Erlang/OTP system is not effected at all by this change.
OTP-5211 The emulator could fail to clear the memory segment cache.
This could potentially cause memory allocation to
unnecessarily fail when memory usage was close to its
maximum. This bug has now been fixed.
OTP-5216 std_alloc (std short for standard) was sometimes called
def_alloc (def short for default). std_alloc is now
everywhere refered to as std_alloc.
OTP-5217 A documentation bug has been corrected in the erts_alloc(3)
documentation. It was stated that some of the memory
allocators present were by default disabled. This is true for
Erlang/OTP R9C, but is not true for Erlang/OTP R10B. In R10B
all memory allocators present are enabled by default.
OTP-5221 The emulator now closes all open files and sockets immediately
after receiving an USR1 signal. This causes the emulator to
unregister at epmd as early as possible.
OTP-5229 Try/catch support in the emulator slightly updated.
OTP-5209 If one used select/3 and select/1 on a non-fixed table and
deleted objects simultaneously, the emulator could crash.
Note that the result of such simultaneous operations on
tables that are not in a fixed state is still undefined, but
the emulator crash is, needless to say, fixed.
OTP-5233 Arithmetic with big numbers could crash the emulator.
The HiPE native code compiler and run-time code in the
emulator has been updated. (Note: Native code is still not
supported.) Eliminated a few bugs that could crash the
hybrid emulator (which is not supported).
OTP-5210, You can now start Erlang with the -remsh flag which gives you a
OTP-5248 remote initial shell instead of a local one. Example: erl
-sname this_node -remsh other_node@REDACTED
--- hipe ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5233 The HiPE native code compiler and run-time code in the
emulator has been updated. (Note: Native code is still not
supported.) Eliminated a few bugs that could crash the
hybrid emulator (which is not supported).
--- kernel ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5208 The documentation for the auth:open/1 function which
no longer exists has been removed. (Thanks to Miguel
Barreiro.)
OTP-5212 If /etc/hosts specified two hosts with the same IP address
(on separate lines), only the last host would be registered
by inet_db during inet configuration. This has been corrected
now so that both aliases are registered with the same IP
address.
OTP-5214 The top level group leader used to be listed as job #1 in the
job list in JCL mode. Since there is no shell associated with
this process that can be connected to, it will no longer be
listed.
OTP-5218 The possibility to start the erlang shell in parallell with
the rest of the system has been reintroduced for backwards
compatibility. Note that this old behaviour is error prone
and should not be used unless for some reason necessary.
OTP-5222 The documentation for BIFs that take I/O lists have been
clarified. Those are list_to_binary/1,
port_command/2, port_control/3.
Documentation for all is_* BIFs (such as is_atom/1)
has been added.
Removed the documentation for
erlang:float_to_binary/2 which was removed from the
run-time system several releases ago.
OTP-5226 The shell commands rr/1,2,3 now accepts
wildcards when reading record definitions from BEAM files.
OTP-5227 Corrected the crc32/3 function in the undocumented and
unsupported zlib module.
--- megaco ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5193 Minor error handling improvement to the text encoder.
OTP-5186 The megaco text codec failed to properly encode a message
containing no or an empty terminationAudit list or
possibly a terminationAudit list with only an "empty"
emptyDescriptor (e.g. an AuditDescriptor without any
values; auditToken is either asn1_NOVALUE or []).
This effected AmmsReply and auditOther (AuditResult) and
both v1 and v2.
OTP-5201 Version 2 codec corrections: Incorrectly transformed
(encoded and decoded) IndAudStreamDescriptor (binary),
encoded IndAudMediaDescriptor and IndAudStreamDescriptor
(text). Incorrectly decoded IndAudMediaDescriptor (text).
--- pman ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5191 The pman 'trace shell' functionality was broken as has now
been fixed. Furthermore, pman could not correctly find the
pid of the active shell if more than one shell process was
running on the node. This has also been corrected.
--- snmp ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5187 [agent] Added functions to get a list of all mibs loaded
into an agent (see snmpa:which_mibs) and to get the (full
path) file name of a loaded mib (see snmpa:whereis_mib).
OTP-5196 [manager] The wrong default value (1024) was used for the
net-if option recbuf. If no value is specified, then the
OS default shall be used.
Improvements and new features:
OTP-5242 [manager] When the net_if process failed to send a message,
for whatever reason, this is just dropped. And the user is
"left hanging". Now, if the request is syncroneous, it will
return with a proper reason (see snmpm:g, snmpm:gn and
snmpm:s), and if the request was asynchroneous, the new
callback function, handle_error (see snmpm_user) is called.
Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions:
OTP-5225 [manager] The arguments CtxName and Port was swapped in
the function snmpm:g/6.
OTP-5241 [manager] TRAP receive failes for unknown agent due to
failing message size calculation.
Incompatibilities:
OTP-5242 [manager] Introduced a new callback function in the
behaviour snmpm_user.
--- stdlib ------------------------------------------------------------
OTP-5213 The man page for the lists module has been updated
with decscription of the new zip, unzip, and
partition/2 functions (introduced in R10B-1).
OTP-5214 The top level group leader used to be listed as job #1 in the
job list in JCL mode. Since there is no shell associated with
this process that can be connected to, it will no longer be
listed.
OTP-5218 The possibility to start the erlang shell in parallell with
the rest of the system has been reintroduced for backwards
compatibility. Note that this old behaviour is error prone
and should not be used unless for some reason necessary.
OTP-5226 The shell commands rr/1,2,3 now accepts
wildcards when reading record definitions from BEAM files.
OTP-5209 If one used select/3 and select/1 on a non-fixed table and
deleted objects simultaneously, the emulator could crash.
Note that the result of such simultaneous operations on
tables that are not in a fixed state is still undefined, but
the emulator crash is, needless to say, fixed.
--
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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