[erlang-questions] Erlang/OTP 18.0 has been released

[Henrik Nord]

On 2015-06-24 15:31, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
> Excellent! Congratulations!
>
> Please update the links to the downloadable files in the README file, 
> all versions used in the file names are specified as "18" but should 
> be "18.0".
>
fix
> best regards,
> Vlad
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Kenneth Lundin <kenneth@REDACTED 
> <mailto:kenneth@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     Erlang/OTP 18.0 has been released
>     --------------------------------------------------
>
>     Erlang/OTP 18.0 is a new major release with new features, quite a
>     few (characteristics) improvements, as well as some
>     incompatibilities.
>     A non functional but major change this release is the change of
>     license to APL 2.0 (Apache Public License).
>
>     Some highlights of the release are:
>
>       * Starting from 18.0 Erlang/OTP is released under the APL 2.0
>         (Apache Public License)
>       * erts: The time functionality has been extended.
>         This includes a new API for time, as well as "time warp" modes
>         which alters the behavior when system time changes. You are
>         strongly encouraged to use the new API instead of the old API
>         based on erlang:now/0. erlang:now/0 has been deprecated since
>         it is a scalability bottleneck.
>         For more information see the Time and Time Correction chapter
>         of the ERTS User's Guide. Here is a link
>         http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/time_correction.html
>       * erts: Beside the API changes and time warp modes a lot of
>         scalability and performance improvements regarding time
>         management has been made. Examples are:
>           o scheduler specific timer wheels,
>           o scheduler specific BIF timer management,
>           o parallel retrieval of monotonic time and system time on
>             OS:es that support it.
>       * erts: The previously introduced "eager check I/O" feature is
>         now enabled by default.
>       * erts/compiler: enhanced support for maps. Big maps new uses a
>         HAMT (Hash Array Mapped Trie) representation internally which
>         makes them more efficient. There is now also support for
>         variables as map keys.
>       * dialyzer: The -dialyzer() attribute can be used for
>         suppressing warnings
>         in a module by specifying functions or warning options.
>         It can also be used for requesting warnings in a module.
>       * ssl: Remove default support for SSL-3.0 and added padding
>         check for TLS-1.0 due to the Poodle vulnerability.
>       * ssl: Remove default support for RC4 cipher suites, as they are
>         consider too weak.
>       * stdlib: Allow maps for supervisor flags and child specs
>       * stdlib: New functions in ets:
>           o take/2. Works the same as ets:delete/2 but
>                       also returns the deleted object(s).
>           o ets:update_counter/4 with a default object as
>                       argument
>
>     You can find the Release Notes with more detailed info at
>
>     http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.0.readme<http://www.erlang.org/download/OTP-18.0-rc2.README>
>
>     *IMPORTANT INFO when building your own code with this OTP release
>     *
>     Since erlang:now is deprecated your build might stop if you are using
>     "warnings as errors".
>     To let the build through you can turn of warnings for deprecated
>     functions
>     by setting an environment variable like this:
>       export ERL_COMPILER_OPTIONS=nowarn_deprecated_function
>
>
>     You find the source code at github.com <http://github.com> in the
>     official Erlang repository.
>
>     Git tag OTP-18.0
>
>     https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/OTP-18.0<https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/OTP-18.0>
>
>     You can also read the documentation on-line here:
>     (see the Release Notes mentioned above for release notes which
>     are not updated in the doc, but the new functionality is)
>
>     http://www.erlang.org/doc/
>
>     We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and
>     bug reports.
>
>     The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson
>
>
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/Henrik Nord Erlang/OTP

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