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diff --git a/release-notes/OTP-24.1.5.README.txt b/release-notes/OTP-24.1.5.README.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10a0d6b --- /dev/null +++ b/release-notes/OTP-24.1.5.README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +Patch Package: OTP 24.1.5 +Git Tag: OTP-24.1.5 +Date: 2021-11-11 +Trouble Report Id: OTP-17734, OTP-17735, OTP-17736, OTP-17737 +Seq num: GH-4989, GH-5279, GH-5327, GH-5339, GH-5346 +System: OTP +Release: 24 +Application: erts-12.1.5, kernel-8.1.3 +Predecessor: OTP 24.1.4 + + Check out the git tag OTP-24.1.5, and build a full OTP system + including documentation. Apply one or more applications from this + build as patches to your installation using the 'otp_patch_apply' + tool. For information on install requirements, see descriptions for + each application version below. + + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + --- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITIES ------------------------------------- + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + + OTP-17734 Application(s): kernel + Related Id(s): GH-5327, OTP-17659 + + The internal, undocumented, but used, module inet_dns + has been fixed to handle mDNS high bit usage of the + Class field. + + Code that uses the previously obsolete, undocumented + and unused record field #dns_rr.func will need to be + updated since that field is now used as a boolean flag + for the mDNS high Class bit. Code that uses the also + undocumented record #dns_query will need to be + recompiled since a boolean field + #dns_query.unicast_response has been added for the mDNS + high Class bit. + + + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + --- erts-12.1.5 ----------------------------------------------------- + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + + The erts-12.1.5 application can be applied independently of other + applications on a full OTP 24 installation. + + --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions --- + + OTP-17735 Application(s): erts + Related Id(s): GH-5339 + + The runtime system could call select() with a too large + timeout value when executing on MacOS. This could in + turn cause the runtime system to crash. + + + OTP-17736 Application(s): erts, kernel + Related Id(s): GH-5279, OTP-17559, PR-5120 + + The fix for Linux's behaviour when reconnecting an UDP + socket in PR-5120 released in OTP-24.1.2 has been + refined to only dissolve the socket's connection before + a connect if the socket is already connected, that is: + only for a reconnect. + + This allows code to open a socket with an ephemeral + port, get the port number and connect; without the port + number changing (on Linux). This turned out to have at + least one valid use case (besides test cases). + + Should one reconnect the socket then the port number + may change, on Linux; it is a known quirk, which can be + worked around by binding to a specific port number when + opening the socket. If you can do without an ephemeral + port, that is... + + + OTP-17737 Application(s): erts + Related Id(s): GH-4989, GH-5346 + + Certain distributed signals that for various reasons + must to be forced into the distribution buffer even + when it is full would instead be lost if the + distribution buffer was full when sent. The effected + signals: + + -- EXIT signals with exit reasons of one word size. + + -- DOWN signals with exit reasons of one word size. + + -- demonitor signals from a terminating process. + + -- unlink_ack signals on OTP 23 and 24. + + -- spawn_reply signals on OTP 23 and 24. + + + Full runtime dependencies of erts-12.1.5: kernel-8.0, sasl-3.3, + stdlib-3.13 + + + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + --- kernel-8.1.3 ---------------------------------------------------- + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + + The kernel-8.1.3 application can be applied independently of other + applications on a full OTP 24 installation. + + --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions --- + + OTP-17734 Application(s): kernel + Related Id(s): GH-5327, OTP-17659 + + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + + The internal, undocumented, but used, module inet_dns + has been fixed to handle mDNS high bit usage of the + Class field. + + Code that uses the previously obsolete, undocumented + and unused record field #dns_rr.func will need to be + updated since that field is now used as a boolean flag + for the mDNS high Class bit. Code that uses the also + undocumented record #dns_query will need to be + recompiled since a boolean field + #dns_query.unicast_response has been added for the mDNS + high Class bit. + + + OTP-17736 Application(s): erts, kernel + Related Id(s): GH-5279, OTP-17559, PR-5120 + + The fix for Linux's behaviour when reconnecting an UDP + socket in PR-5120 released in OTP-24.1.2 has been + refined to only dissolve the socket's connection before + a connect if the socket is already connected, that is: + only for a reconnect. + + This allows code to open a socket with an ephemeral + port, get the port number and connect; without the port + number changing (on Linux). This turned out to have at + least one valid use case (besides test cases). + + Should one reconnect the socket then the port number + may change, on Linux; it is a known quirk, which can be + worked around by binding to a specific port number when + opening the socket. If you can do without an ephemeral + port, that is... + + + Full runtime dependencies of kernel-8.1.3: crypto-5.0, erts-12.0, + sasl-3.0, stdlib-3.13 + + + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + |