Re: [erlang-questions] Erlang/OTP R15B has been released (now with correct README link)

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Kenneth Lundin

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Dec 14, 2011, 10:22:50 AM12/14/11
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Erlang/OTP R15B has been released.

This is a new major release of Erlang/OTP

This is a release with many interesting new features:

Highlights:

  • Line number and filename information are now included in exception backtraces. This information will be pretty-printed in the shell and used in crash reports etc. In practice it will be much easier to find where something failed.
  • The driver interface has been changed to enable 64-bit aware drivers. Most importantly the return types for ErlDrvEntry callbacks 'call' and 'control' has been changed which require drivers to be changed.
  • New in this release is the support for 64 bit  Windows.
  • CommonTest hooks are now in a final supported version.
  • There is a new GUI tool in the observer application which integrates pman, etop, appmon and tv into one tool. The tool does also contain functions for activating tracing in an easy way.
  • The Erlang distribution can now be run over the new SSL implementation.  
You can find the README file with more detailed info at


You can download the full source distribution from
 

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program.

For installation instructions please read the README that is part of
the distribution.

The Windows binary distribution can be downloaded from



On-line documentation can be found at http://www.erlang.org/doc/.
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files


We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports,

The OTP Team at Ericsson

Andrew Thompson

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Dec 14, 2011, 11:11:45 AM12/14/11
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:22:50PM +0100, Kenneth Lundin wrote:
> Erlang/OTP R15B has been released.
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Good news, but I'm curious as to why there wasn't an offical R15A
release like normal? The 'A' releases were good for findings bugs before
the stable version landed and I'd gotten in the habit of not really
testing a new major release until the A release was out.

Andrew
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Jesse Gumm

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Dec 14, 2011, 11:41:22 AM12/14/11
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Hi!

There was an R15A release pushed out on Nov 22 and announced on erlang-questions.

http://bit.ly/sZgZzT

-Jesse

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Kenneth Lundin

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Dec 14, 2011, 11:48:38 AM12/14/11
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Hi Andrew,

It is a lot of extra work to make an A release and because of that we decided to replace the
A release with the same intention but just tagged in the git repository at GitHub.
We announced that and asked for feedback which we also got to some extent.

Of course the release process can and will be improved for the next occation but I think we
will continue this way but maybe announcing it better.

/Regards Kenneth

Benoit Chesneau

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Dec 15, 2011, 1:28:50 AM12/15/11
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Is the bug with openssl on macosx lion fixed on this release?

- benoît

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