OTP 24.1 Release

[Henrik Nord X]

Highlights OTP: The Efficiency Guide has been extended with a chapter about maps. Stdlib: Most output functions in the io module now print extra error information when provided with invalid arguments. The functions are: io:format, io:fwrite, io:put_chars, io:nl and io:write. Erts: init:stop() no longer unloads loaded code before terminating the runtime system. On systems with slow CPUs (such as Raspberry PI Zero), that can significantly speed up termination of the runtime system. For more details about new features and potential incompatibilities see https://erlang.org/download/OTP-24.1.README For more details about new features and potential incompatibilities see https://erlang.org/download/OTP-24.1.README Pre built versions for Windows can be fetched here: otp_win32_24.1.exe otp_win64_24.1.exe For a quicker build a tar file with all the platform independent parts already built (.beam files and doc chunks) can be found here: otp_src_24.1.tar.gz Online documentation can be browsed here: http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-12.1/doc Many thanks to all the contributors. The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang repository, https://github.com/erlang/otp

[Leonard B]

Thanks Henrik,

The provided link to the efficiency guide works, _but_ the links in the 'Maps' section on the left menu are pointing to the wrong location.

They point to https://erlang.org/doc/man/maps.html when they should be pointing to https://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/maps.html

[Lukas Larsson]

I've updated beta.erlang.org to contain the correct links: https://beta.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/users_guide.html (make sure to do a full reload in order to not get the cached version).

I'll update erlang.org tomorrow. You can track the progress here: https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/5228

Lukas