Erlang OTP 23.0-rc1 is available for testing

[Karl Velicka]

Hi Kenneth,

Great to hear about the new release - thank you and the team!

The point about the documentation display functions raises a question
though - are there any plans to add a mechanism for embedding documentation
within erl source files? Something similar to elixir’s @doc system perhaps?

Thanks,
Karl

On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 13:38, Kenneth Lundin <kenneth@REDACTED> wrote:

> OTP 23 Release Candidate 1
>
> This is the first of three planned release candidates before the OTP 23
> release.
> The intention with this release is to get feedback from our users. All
> feedback is welcome, even if it is only to say that it works for you.
>
> Erlang/OTP 23 is a new major release with new features, improvements as
> well as a few incompatibilities.
> Potential Incompatibilities
>
>    - SSL:
>       - Support for SSL 3.0 is completely removed.
>       - TLS 1.3 is added to the list of default supported versions.
>    - erl_interface: Removed the deprecated parts of erl_interface
>    (erl_interface.h and essentially all C functions with prefix erl_).
>    - The deprecated erlang:get_stacktrace/0 BIF now returns an empty list
>    instead of a stacktrace.
>    erlang:get_stacktrace/0 is scheduled for removal in OTP 24.
>    - ...
>
> Highlights
>
>    - A new module erpc in kernel which implements an enhanced subset of
>    the operations provided by the rpc module. Enhanced in the sense that
>    it makes it possible to distinguish between returned value, raised
>    exceptions and other errors. erpc also has better performance and
>    scalability than the original rpc implementation. This by utilizing
>    the newly introduced spawn_request() BIF. Also the rpc module benefits
>    from these improvements by utilizing erpc when possible.
>    - Scalability and performance Improvements plus new functionality
>    regarding distributed spawn operations.
>    - In binary matching, the size of the segment to be matched is now
>    allowed to be a guard expression (EEP-52)
>    - When matching with maps the keys can now be guard expressions
>    (EEP-52).
>    - ssh: support for TCP/IP port forwarding, a.k.a tunneling a.k.a as
>    tcp-forward/direct-tcp is implemented. In the OpenSSH client, this
>    corresponds to the options -L and -R.
>    - Allow underscores in numeric literals to improve readability.
>    Examples: 123_456_789, 16#1234_ABCD.
>    - New functions in the shell for displaying documentation for Erlang
>    modules, functions and types. The
>    functions are:
>       - h/1,2,3 -- Print the documentation for a Module:Function/Arity.
>       - ht/1,2,3 -- Print the type documentation for a Module:Type/Arity.
>       The embedded documentation is created as docchunks (EEP 48) when
>       building the Erlang/OTP documentation.
>    - kernel: The module pg with a new implementation of distributed named
>    process groups is introduced. The old module pg2 is deprecated and
>    scheduled for removal in OTP 24.
>    - Our tool chain for building the Windows packages is upgraded with
>    new C++ compiler, Java compiler, OpenSSL libraries and wxWidgets versions.
>    We are now using WSL (the Linux Subsystem for Windows when building) which
>    makes it easier to handle the build environment.
>    - ...
>
> For more details see
> http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_23.0-rc1.readme
>
> Pre built versions for Windows can be fetched here:
> http://erlang.org/download/otp_win32_23.0-rc1.exe
> http://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_23.0-rc1.exe
>
> Online documentation can be browsed here:
> http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-11.0-rc1/doc
> The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang
> repository,
> https://github.com/erlang/otp
>
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