OTP 24 Release Candidate 2 has been released

[Jérôme de Bretagne]

Hello!

I can confirm that Erlang/OTP 24.0-rc2 is working fine in my unusual
scenario, which is running Erlang on Android.

I will update https://github.com/JeromeDeBretagne/erlanglauncher once
OTP 24 is released.

Thank you,
Jérôme

Le ven. 26 mars 2021 à 11:58, Henrik Nord X
<henrik.x.nord@REDACTED> a écrit :
>
> OTP 24 Release Candidate 2
>
> This is the second of three planned release candidates before the OTP 24 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.
>
> We encourage users to try it out and give us feedback either by creating an issue here https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues
> or by posting to the mailing list erlang-questions@REDACTED
>
> Erlang/OTP 24 is a new major release with new features, improvements as well as a few incompatibilities. Some of the new
> features are highlighted below.
>
> Highlights rc2
>
> compiler
>
> The compiler will now inline funs that are used only once immediately after their definition.
>
> erts, kernel, stdlib
>
> hex encoding and decoding functions added in the binary module
>
> There is as usual a number of bug fixes and improvements detailed in the readme.
>
> Highlights rc1
>
> erts, kernel, stdlib
>
> The BeamAsm JIT-compiler has been added to Erlang/OTP and will give a significant performance boost for many applications.
> The JIT-compiler is enabled by default on most x86 64-bit platforms that have a C++ compiler that can compile C++17.
> To verify that a JIT enabled emulator is running you can use erlang:system_info(emu_flavor).
>
> A compatibility adaptor for gen_tcp to use the new socket API has been implemented (gen_tcp_socket).
>
> Extended error information for failing BIF calls as proposed in EEP 54 has been implemented.
>
> Process aliases as outlined by EEP 53 has been introduced.
>
> compiler
>
> Compiler warnings and errors now include column numbers in addition to line numbers.
> Variables bound between the keywords 'try' and 'of' can now be used in the clauses following the 'of' keyword
> (that is, in the success case when no exception was raised).
>
> ftp
>
> Add support for FTPES (explicit FTP over TLS).
>
> ssl
>
> Support for the "early data" feature for TLS 1.3 servers and clients.
> Make TLS handshakes in Erlang distribution concurrent.
>
> wx
>
> The application has been completely rewritten in order
> to use wxWidgets version 3 as its base.
> Added support for wxWebView.
>
> edoc
>
> EDoc is now capable of emitting EEP-48 doc chunks. This means that, with some configuration, community projects
> can now provide documentation for shell_docs the same way that OTP libraries did since OTP 23.0.
>
> For more details about new features and potential incompatibilities see
> https://erlang.org/download/OTP-24.0-rc2.README
>
> Pre built versions for Windows can be fetched here:
> http://erlang.org/download/otp_win32_24.0-rc2.exe
> http://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_24.0-rc2.exe
>
> Online documentation can be browsed here:
> http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-12.0-rc2/doc/
>
> The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang repository,
> https://github.com/erlang/otp
>
>