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

[Loïc Hoguin]

Fantastic release!

There's an impressive number of interesting things. My pet peeves are 
optimized time handling, timers and references; variables as keys in 
maps; optional callbacks; cached dialyzer native compiles; 
erlang:get_keys; ets stuff; zlib:inflateChunk; maps for supervisor 
specs; and the io_lib:scan_format functions.

I am not sure what is meant by:

    OTP-10923  The Test Server application has been marked as obsolete and
	      will be removed from OTP in the next major release (OTP
	      19.0).

What's the replacement?

Great job to everyone involved!

Cheers,

On 06/24/2015 01:50 PM, Kenneth Lundin 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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Loïc Hoguin
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