Erlang/OTP
18.1
is a service
release on the
18 track with mostly bug fixes, but is does contain a number of
new features and characteristics improvements as well.
Some highlights of the
release
are:
- ssl: Add possibility to downgrade an SSL/TLS connection to
a tcp connection, and give back the socket control to a user
process.
- ssh: The following new key exchange algorithms are
implemented:'ecdh-sha2-nistp256', 'ecdh-sha2-nistp384',
'ecdh-sha2-nistp521','diffie-hellman-group14-sha1',
'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1' and
'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256'. This raises the
security level considerably.
- kernel,stdlib,sasl: A mechanism for limiting the amount of
text that the built-in error logger events will produce has
been introduced. It is useful for limiting both the size of
log files and the CPU time used to produce them.
This mechanism is experimental in the sense that it may be
changed based on feedback. See config parameter
error_logger_format_depth in the Kernel application.
You can find the Release Notes with
more detailed info at
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.1.readme
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.
You can also find the source code at github.com in
the official Erlang repository. Git tag OTP-18.1
https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/OTP-18.1
The Windows binary distributions can be downloaded from
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_18.1.exe
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_18.1.exe
You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the
Unix manual files
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_18.1.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_18.1.tar.gz
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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