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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- HIGHLIGHTS ------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

  OTP-10289    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): OTP-10309

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Improved unicode support for strings. Added
               normalization functions in the unicode module. Extended
               the string module API with new functions with improved
               unicode handling and that works on grapheme clusters.
               The new functions operates on the unicode:chardata()
               type, thus they also accept UTF-8 binaries as input.

               The old string API have been marked as obsolete. The
               return values have been changed for some error cases.


  OTP-13820    Application(s): ssl

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               TLS-1.2 clients will now always send hello messages on
               its own format, as opposed to earlier versions that
               will send the hello on the lowest supported version,
               this is a change supported by the latest RFC.

               This will make interoperability with some newer servers
               smoother. Potentially, but unlikely, this could cause a
               problem with older servers if they do not adhere to the
               RFC and ignore unknown extensions.


  OTP-13900    Application(s): crypto

               The crypto application now supports OpenSSL 1.1.


  OTP-13921    Application(s): crypto, ssl
               Related Id(s): PR-1180

               Allow Erlang/OTP to use OpenSSL in FIPS-140 mode, in
               order to satisfy specific security requirements (mostly
               by different parts of the US federal government).

               See the new crypto users guide "FIPS mode" chapter
               about building and using the FIPS support which is
               disabled by default.

               (Thanks to dszoboszlay and legoscia)


  OTP-14059    Application(s): kernel, stdlib

               Functions for detecting changed code has been added.
               code:modified_modules/0 returns all currently loaded
               modules that have changed on disk. code:module_status/1
               returns the status for a module. In the shell and in c
               module, mm/0 is short for code:modified_modules/0, and
               lm/0 reloads all currently loaded modules that have
               changed on disk.


  OTP-14094    Application(s): stdlib

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Optimized ETS operations by changing table identifier
               type from integer to reference. The reference enables a
               more direct mapping to the table with less potential
               lock contention and makes especially creation and
               deletion of tables scale much better.

               The change of the opaque type for the ETS table
               identifiers may cause failure in code that make faulty
               assumptions about this opaque type.


  OTP-14152    Application(s): erts

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Dirty schedulers are now enabled and supported on
               Erlang runtime systems with SMP support.

               Besides support for dirty NIFs also support for dirty
               BIFs and dirty garbage collection have been introduced.
               All garbage collections that potentially will take a
               long time to complete are now performed on dirty
               schedulers if enabled.

               erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time) now also
               includes information about dirty CPU schedulers. Code
               using erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time) may have
               to be rewritten to take this incompatibility into
               consideration.


  OTP-14178    Application(s): compiler, erts

               Atoms may now contain arbitrary Unicode characters.


  OTP-14183    Application(s): stdlib

               Replace gen_fsm with gen_statem


  OTP-14205    Application(s): erts

               All uses of the magic binary kludge has been replaced
               by uses of erlang references.

               A magic binary was presented as an empty binary, but
               actually referred other data internally in the Erlang
               VM. Since they were presented as empty binaries,
               different magic binaries compared as equal, and also
               lost their internal data when passed out of an erlang
               node.

               The new usage of references has not got any of these
               strange semantic issues, and the usage of these
               references has been optimized to give the same
               performance benefits as well as memory usage benefits
               as magic binaries had.

               A couple of examples of previous uses of magic binaries
               are match specifications and NIF resources.


  OTP-14219    Application(s): asn1

               The new 'maps' option changes the representation of the
               types SEQUENCE and SET to be maps (instead of records).


  OTP-14226    Application(s): stdlib

               erl_tar in previous versions of OTP only supports the
               USTAR format. That limited path names to at most 255
               bytes, and did not support Unicode characters in names
               in a portable way.

               erl_tar now has support for reading tar archives in the
               formats currently in common use, such as v7, STAR,
               USTAR, PAX, and GNU tar's extensions to the STAR/USTAR
               format. When writing tar archives, erl_tar can now
               write them in the PAX format if necessary (for example,
               to support very long filenames or filenames with
               Unicode characters). If possible, erl_tar will still
               write tar archives in the USTAR for maximum
               portability.


  OTP-14291    Application(s): ssl

               Extend connection_information/[1,2] . The values
               session_id, master_secret, client_random and
               server_random can no be accessed by
               connection_information/2. Note only session_id will be
               added to connection_information/1. The rational is that
               values concerning the connection security should have
               to be explicitly requested.


  OTP-14319    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1076

               Add new function ets:select_replace/2 which performs
               atomic "compare-and-swap" operations for ETS objects
               using match specifications.


  OTP-14331    Application(s): erts, stdlib
               Related Id(s): ERL-208

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Upgraded the OTP internal PCRE library from version
               8.33 to version 8.40. This library is used for
               implementation of the re regular expressions module.

               Besides various bug fixes, the new version allows for
               better stack protection. In order to utilize this
               feature, the stack size of normal scheduler threads is
               now by default set to 128 kilo words on all platforms.
               The stack size of normal scheduler threads can be set
               upon system start by passing the +sss command line
               argument to the erl command.

               See http://pcre.org/original/changelog.txt for
               information about changes made to PCRE between the
               versions 8.33 and 8.40.


  OTP-14388    Application(s): ssl

               Basic support for DTLS that been tested together with
               OpenSSL.

               Test by providing the option {protocol, dtls} to the
               ssl API functions connect and listen.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITIES -------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

  OTP-10289    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): OTP-10309

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Improved unicode support for strings. Added
               normalization functions in the unicode module. Extended
               the string module API with new functions with improved
               unicode handling and that works on grapheme clusters.
               The new functions operates on the unicode:chardata()
               type, thus they also accept UTF-8 binaries as input.

               The old string API have been marked as obsolete. The
               return values have been changed for some error cases.


  OTP-12872    Application(s): ssh

               The internal handling of SSH options is re-written.

               Previously there were no checks if a client option was
               given to a daemon or vice versa. This is corrected now.
               If your code has e.g. a client-only option in a call to
               start a daemon, the call will fail.


  OTP-13703    Application(s): otp

               The 'gs' application has been removed.


  OTP-13820    Application(s): ssl

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               TLS-1.2 clients will now always send hello messages on
               its own format, as opposed to earlier versions that
               will send the hello on the lowest supported version,
               this is a change supported by the latest RFC.

               This will make interoperability with some newer servers
               smoother. Potentially, but unlikely, this could cause a
               problem with older servers if they do not adhere to the
               RFC and ignore unknown extensions.


  OTP-13827    Application(s): erts

               Remove deprecated erlang:hash/2.


  OTP-13844    Application(s): erts
               Related Id(s): OTP-13833

               The previously used purge strategy has been removed.
               The optional purge strategy introduced in ERTS version
               8.1 is now the only strategy available.

               The new purge strategy is slightly incompatible with
               the old strategy. Previously processes holding funs
               that referred to the module being purged either failed
               a soft purge, or was killed during a hard purge. The
               new strategy completely ignores funs. If funs referring
               to the code being purged exist, and are used after a
               purge, an exception will be raised upon usage. That is,
               the behavior will be exactly the same as the case when
               a fun is received by a process after the purge.

               For more information see the documentation of
               erlang:check_process_code/3.


  OTP-13873    Application(s): crypto

               Removed functions deprecated in crypto-3.0 first
               released in OTP-R16B01


  OTP-13908    Application(s): erts

               The NIF library reload feature is not supported
               anymore. It has been marked as deprecated since OTP
               R15B. This means that you are only allowed to do one
               successful call to erlang:load_nif/2 for each module
               instance. A second call to erlang:load_nif/2 will
               return {error, {reload, _}} even if the NIF library
               imlements the reload callback.

               Runtime upgrade of a NIF library is still supported by
               using the Erlang module upgrade mechanics with a
               current and an old module instance existing at the same
               time with their corresponding NIF libraries.


  OTP-14039    Application(s): mnesia

               Removed the wrapping of select continuations in
               extension plugin handling. This might require the user
               to rewrite user backend plugin if used.


  OTP-14094    Application(s): stdlib

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Optimized ETS operations by changing table identifier
               type from integer to reference. The reference enables a
               more direct mapping to the table with less potential
               lock contention and makes especially creation and
               deletion of tables scale much better.

               The change of the opaque type for the ETS table
               identifiers may cause failure in code that make faulty
               assumptions about this opaque type.


  OTP-14110    Application(s): ssh

               Modernization of diffie-hellman algorithms. Removed an
               outdated weak algorithm and added stronger replacements
               to keep interoperability with other ssh clients and
               servers. The default ordering is also adjusted.

               Retired: key-exchange diffie-hellman-group1-sha1. It is
               not enabled by default, but can be enabled with the
               option preferred-algorithms.

               Added: key-exchange diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,
               diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 and
               diffie-hellman-group14-sha256.


  OTP-14146    Application(s): asn1

               The deprecated module asn1rt has been removed. The
               deprecated functions asn1ct:encode/3 and
               asn1ct:decode/3 have been removed. The undocumented
               function asn1ct:encode/2 has been removed.


  OTP-14152    Application(s): erts

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Dirty schedulers are now enabled and supported on
               Erlang runtime systems with SMP support.

               Besides support for dirty NIFs also support for dirty
               BIFs and dirty garbage collection have been introduced.
               All garbage collections that potentially will take a
               long time to complete are now performed on dirty
               schedulers if enabled.

               erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time) now also
               includes information about dirty CPU schedulers. Code
               using erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time) may have
               to be rewritten to take this incompatibility into
               consideration.


  OTP-14171    Application(s): crypto

               Raised minimum requeriment for OpenSSL version to
               OpenSSL-9.0.8.c although we recommend a much higher
               version, that is a version that is still maintained
               officially by the OpenSSL project. Note that using such
               an old version may restrict the crypto algorithms
               supported.


  OTP-14263    Application(s): ssh

               Removed the option public_key_alg which was deprecated
               in 18.2. Use pref_public_key_algs instead.


  OTP-14264    Application(s): ssh

               The ssh application is refactored regarding daemon
               starting. The resolution of contradicting Host argument
               and ip option were not described. There were also
               strange corner cases when the 'any' value was used in
               Host argument or ip option. This is (hopefully)
               resolved now, but it may cause incompatibilities for
               code using both Host and the ip option. The value
               'loopback' has been added for a correct way of naming
               those addresses.


  OTP-14272    Application(s): erts, otp

               The non-smp emulators have been deprecated and are
               scheduled for removal in OTP-21.

               In preperations for this, the threaded non-smp emulator
               is no longer built by default and has to be enabled
               using the --enable-plain-emulator to configure.


  OTP-14331    Application(s): erts, stdlib
               Related Id(s): ERL-208

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Upgraded the OTP internal PCRE library from version
               8.33 to version 8.40. This library is used for
               implementation of the re regular expressions module.

               Besides various bug fixes, the new version allows for
               better stack protection. In order to utilize this
               feature, the stack size of normal scheduler threads is
               now by default set to 128 kilo words on all platforms.
               The stack size of normal scheduler threads can be set
               upon system start by passing the +sss command line
               argument to the erl command.

               See http://pcre.org/original/changelog.txt for
               information about changes made to PCRE between the
               versions 8.33 and 8.40.


  OTP-14531    Application(s): stdlib

               The state machine engine gen_statem can now handle
               generic time-outs (multiple named) as well as absolute
               time-out time. See the documentation.

               The gen_statem callback Module:init/1 has become
               mandatory to harmonize with other gen_* modules. This
               may be an incompatibility for gen_statem callback
               modules that use gen_statem:enter_loop/4-6.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- asn1-5.0 --------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14316    Application(s): asn1, crypto, runtime_tools
               Related Id(s): PR-1390

               Add compile option -compile(no_native) in modules with
               on_load directive which is not yet supported by HiPE.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-13961    Application(s): asn1

               The error tuple returned from the encode and decode
               functions will now include the stack backtrace to make
               it easier to understand what went wrong.


  OTP-14146    Application(s): asn1

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The deprecated module asn1rt has been removed. The
               deprecated functions asn1ct:encode/3 and
               asn1ct:decode/3 have been removed. The undocumented
               function asn1ct:encode/2 has been removed.


  OTP-14219    Application(s): asn1

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               The new 'maps' option changes the representation of the
               types SEQUENCE and SET to be maps (instead of records).


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- common_test-1.15 ------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14332    Application(s): common_test
               Related Id(s): seq13299

               Errors in the documentation for user HTML stylesheets
               have been corrected.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-13806    Application(s): common_test

               The ct_slave modules now handle nodenames in the same
               way as nodenames passed to -sname. That means
               ct_slave:start('[email protected]'). will now work.


  OTP-14179    Application(s): common_test

               Added the new option, keep_logs. If setting the value
               for this option to an integer, N, common_test will
               remove all ct_run.* directories in the current log
               directory, except the N newest.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- compiler-7.1 ----------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-13690    Application(s): compiler, stdlib

               For many releases, it has been legal to override a BIF
               with a local function having the same name. However,
               calling a local function with the same name as guard
               BIF as filter in a list comprehension was not allowed.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-12148    Application(s): compiler, erts

               Optimized test for tuples with an atom as first
               element.


  OTP-13794    Application(s): compiler

               Compilation of modules with huge literal binary strings
               is now much faster.


  OTP-13831    Application(s): compiler, erts, hipe, kernel, percept,
               stdlib
               Related Id(s): OTP-13735

               Replaced usage of deprecated symbolic time unit
               representations.


  OTP-13856    Application(s): compiler

               The undocumented and unsupported module sys_pre_expand
               has been removed. As a partical replacement for the
               functionality, there is a new function
               erl_internal:add_predefined_functions/1 and
               erl_expand_records will now add a module prefix to
               calls to BIFs and imported functions.


  OTP-13924    Application(s): compiler

               The internal compiler passes now start all generated
               variables with "@" to avoid any conflicts with
               variables in languages such as Elixir or LFE.


  OTP-14000    Application(s): compiler, erts, stdlib

               The function fmod/2 has been added to the math module.


  OTP-14042    Application(s): compiler

               Code generation for complicated guards have been
               improved.


  OTP-14058    Application(s): compiler

               The compiler has new warnings for repeated identical
               map keys.

               A map expression such as,

               #{'a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'a' => 3}.

               will produce a warning for the repeated key 'a'.


  OTP-14071    Application(s): compiler, stdlib

               By default, there will now be a warning when export_all
               is used. The warning can be disabled using
               nowarn_export_all.


  OTP-14072    Application(s): compiler

               Optimize maps pattern matching by only examining the
               common keys in each clause first instead of all keys.
               This will reduce the number of lookups of each key in
               maps pattern matching.


  OTP-14087    Application(s): compiler

               There is a new 'deterministc' option to omit 'source'
               and 'options' tuples in the BEAM file.


  OTP-14125    Application(s): compiler, dialyzer
               Related Id(s): ERL-308

               Analyzing modules with binary construction with huge
               strings is now much faster. The compiler also compiles
               such modules slightly faster.


  OTP-14178    Application(s): compiler, erts

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Atoms may now contain arbitrary Unicode characters.


  OTP-14221    Application(s): compiler

               compile:file/2 now accepts the option extra_chunks to
               include extra chunks in the BEAM file.


  OTP-14369    Application(s): compiler, dialyzer, stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1367

               The format of debug information that is stored in BEAM
               files (when debug_info is used) has been changed. The
               purpose of the change is to better support other
               BEAM-based languages such as Elixir or LFE.

               All tools included in OTP (dialyzer, debugger, cover,
               and so on) will handle both the new format and the
               previous format. Tools that retrieve the debug
               information using beam_lib:chunk(Beam, [abstract_code])
               will continue to work with both the new and old format.
               Tools that call beam_lib:chunk(Beam, ["Abst"]) will not
               work with the new format.

               For more information, see the description of debug_info
               in the documentation for beam_lib and the description
               of the {debug_info,{Backend,Data}} option in the
               documentation for compile.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- cosProperty-1.2.2 -----------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14006    Application(s): cosProperty, orber

               Fix dialyzer warnings in Orber and CosProperty.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- crypto-4.0 ------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14247    Application(s): crypto

               LibreSSL can now be used by the modernized crypto app.


  OTP-14316    Application(s): asn1, crypto, runtime_tools
               Related Id(s): PR-1390

               Add compile option -compile(no_native) in modules with
               on_load directive which is not yet supported by HiPE.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-13779    Application(s): crypto
               Related Id(s): ERL-82, PR-1138

               Add basic support for CMAC


  OTP-13873    Application(s): crypto

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Removed functions deprecated in crypto-3.0 first
               released in OTP-R16B01


  OTP-13900    Application(s): crypto

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               The crypto application now supports OpenSSL 1.1.


  OTP-13921    Application(s): crypto, ssl
               Related Id(s): PR-1180

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Allow Erlang/OTP to use OpenSSL in FIPS-140 mode, in
               order to satisfy specific security requirements (mostly
               by different parts of the US federal government).

               See the new crypto users guide "FIPS mode" chapter
               about building and using the FIPS support which is
               disabled by default.

               (Thanks to dszoboszlay and legoscia)


  OTP-14092    Application(s): crypto
               Related Id(s): PR-1291

               Crypto chacha20-poly1305 as in RFC 7539 enabled for
               OpenSSL >= 1.1.

               Thanks to mururu.


  OTP-14140    Application(s): crypto
               Related Id(s): ERL-165, PR-1299

               RSA key generation added to crypto:generate_key/2.
               Thanks to wiml.

               An interface is also added to
               public_key:generate_key/1.


  OTP-14171    Application(s): crypto

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Raised minimum requeriment for OpenSSL version to
               OpenSSL-9.0.8.c although we recommend a much higher
               version, that is a version that is still maintained
               officially by the OpenSSL project. Note that using such
               an old version may restrict the crypto algorithms
               supported.


  OTP-14274    Application(s): crypto

               Deprecate crypto:rand_uniform/2 as it is not
               cryptographically strong


  OTP-14317    Application(s): crypto, stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1372

               The Crypto application now supports generation of
               cryptographically strong random numbers (floats < 1.0
               and integer arbitrary ranges) as a plugin to the 'rand'
               module.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- debugger-4.2.2 --------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14296    Application(s): debugger, stdlib

               The Erlang shell, qlc:string_to_handle(), and the
               Debugger (the Evaluator area and Edit variable window
               of the Bindings area) can parse pids, ports,
               references, and external funs, as long as they can be
               created in the running system.


  OTP-14318    Application(s): debugger

               Fix editing of simple binary values in the Bindings
               area of the Debugger's Attach Process Window.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14285    Application(s): debugger, edoc, parsetools, stdlib,
               syntax_tools

               Miscellaneous updates due to atoms containing arbitrary
               Unicode characters.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- dialyzer-3.2 ----------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14125    Application(s): compiler, dialyzer
               Related Id(s): ERL-308

               Analyzing modules with binary construction with huge
               strings is now much faster. The compiler also compiles
               such modules slightly faster.


  OTP-14127    Application(s): dialyzer

               The peak memory consumption is reduced.


  OTP-14336    Application(s): dialyzer, otp

               TypEr has been removed as separate application and is
               now a part of the Dialyzer application. Documentation
               for TypEr has been added in the Dialyzer application.


  OTP-14369    Application(s): compiler, dialyzer, stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1367

               The format of debug information that is stored in BEAM
               files (when debug_info is used) has been changed. The
               purpose of the change is to better support other
               BEAM-based languages such as Elixir or LFE.

               All tools included in OTP (dialyzer, debugger, cover,
               and so on) will handle both the new format and the
               previous format. Tools that retrieve the debug
               information using beam_lib:chunk(Beam, [abstract_code])
               will continue to work with both the new and old format.
               Tools that call beam_lib:chunk(Beam, ["Abst"]) will not
               work with the new format.

               For more information, see the description of debug_info
               in the documentation for beam_lib and the description
               of the {debug_info,{Backend,Data}} option in the
               documentation for compile.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- diameter-1.12.3 -------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14387    Application(s): diameter, inets, megaco

               Typos have been fixed.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14389    Application(s): diameter

               The usage of module erl_anno is corrected.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- edoc-0.9 --------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14277    Application(s): edoc

               To support stable builds, edoc no longer includes time
               stamps in the footer for generated files.


  OTP-14285    Application(s): debugger, edoc, parsetools, stdlib,
               syntax_tools

               Miscellaneous updates due to atoms containing arbitrary
               Unicode characters.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- erl_docgen-0.7 --------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14333    Application(s): erl_docgen
               Related Id(s): ERL-393

               Sort index of C functions alphabetically in the
               sidebar.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14371    Application(s): erl_docgen
               Related Id(s): PR-1215

               Improvements in the OTP documentation style.

               (Thanks to Mariano Guerra)


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- erl_interface-3.10 ----------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14310    Application(s): erl_interface, kernel

               Fix bug where gethostname would incorrectly fail with
               enametoolong on Linux.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14337    Application(s): erl_interface, erts, jinterface

               Remove generation of atoms in old latin1 external
               format. The old latin1 format can still be decoded but
               is never generated by term_to_binary or sent on a
               distribution channel. The new utf8 format for atoms was
               introduced in OTP R16. An OTP 20 node can therefore not
               connect to nodes older than R16.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- erts-9.0 --------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-13968    Application(s): erts

               Fix various bugs regarding loading, upgrade and purge
               of HiPE compiled code:

               -- The native code memory for a purged module was never
               deallocated.

               -- Wrong functions could in some cases be called after
               a module upgrade.

               -- erlang:check_process_code did not check for
               recursive calls made from native code.


  OTP-14238    Application(s): erts, hipe

               Hipe optional LLVM backend does require LLVM version
               3.9 or later as older versions forced strong
               dependencies on erts internals structures.


  OTP-14303    Application(s): erts

               Slogans in crash dumps have been extended to print more
               complex terms.


  OTP-14304    Application(s): erts

               Fixed bug when using enif_inspect_binary in combination
               with enif_copy. In some circumstances the inspected
               binary could be realloced by the enif_copy call when it
               shouldn't have been.


  OTP-14307    Application(s): erts
               Related Id(s): PR-1379

               Use -fno-PIE for Gentoo Hardened and others that don't
               accept linker flag -no-pie.


  OTP-14314    Application(s): erts
               Related Id(s): ERL-369, PR-1394

               Disable hipe for ppc64le architecture (little endian)
               as it is not, and has never been, supported. It was
               earlier equated with ppc64 (big endian) which lead to
               broken build without --disable-hipe.


  OTP-14324    Application(s): erts

               Fix 'epmd -kill' to return a failure exit status code
               if epmd was not killed because of some error.


  OTP-14335    Application(s): erts

               Fixed the following dirty scheduler related bugs:

               -- the +SDPcpu command line argument could cause the
               amount of dirty CPU schedulers to be set to zero

               -- erlang:system_flag(multi_scheduling, _) failed when
               only one normal scheduler was used together with dirty
               scheduler support


  OTP-14352    Application(s): erts

               Fix erlexec to handle mismatch in sysconf and proc fs
               when figuring out the cpu topology. This behaviour has
               been seen when using docker together with
               --cpuset-cpus.


  OTP-14360    Application(s): erts
               Related Id(s): ERL-401, PR-1417

               Fixed memory segment cache used for multiblock
               carriers. Huge (> 2GB) memory segments could cause a VM
               crash. Creation of such huge memory segments used for
               multiblock carriers is however very uncommon.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-11695    Application(s): erts

               Added erlang:garbage_collect/2 that takes an option
               list as the last argument that can be used to control
               whether a minor or a major garbage collection is to be
               done. Doing a minor collection only collects terms that
               have recently died, but is cheaper than a mjor
               collection.


  OTP-12148    Application(s): compiler, erts

               Optimized test for tuples with an atom as first
               element.


  OTP-13529    Application(s): erts

               Erlang literals are no longer copied during process to
               process messaging.


  OTP-13684    Application(s): erts

               Add support in the erl_nif API for asynchronous message
               notifications when sockets or other file descriptors
               are ready to accept read or write operations. The
               following functions have been added:

               -- enif_select

               -- enif_monitor_process

               -- enif_demonitor_process

               -- enif_compare_monitors

               -- enif_open_resource_type_x


  OTP-13692    Application(s): erts, stdlib

               There are two new guard BIFs 'floor/1' and 'ceil/1'.
               They both return integers. In the 'math' module, there
               are two new BIFs with the same names that return
               floating point values.


  OTP-13827    Application(s): erts

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Remove deprecated erlang:hash/2.


  OTP-13831    Application(s): compiler, erts, hipe, kernel, percept,
               stdlib
               Related Id(s): OTP-13735

               Replaced usage of deprecated symbolic time unit
               representations.


  OTP-13842    Application(s): erts

               Added support in zlib for extraction of the inflation
               dictionary.


  OTP-13844    Application(s): erts
               Related Id(s): OTP-13833

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The previously used purge strategy has been removed.
               The optional purge strategy introduced in ERTS version
               8.1 is now the only strategy available.

               The new purge strategy is slightly incompatible with
               the old strategy. Previously processes holding funs
               that referred to the module being purged either failed
               a soft purge, or was killed during a hard purge. The
               new strategy completely ignores funs. If funs referring
               to the code being purged exist, and are used after a
               purge, an exception will be raised upon usage. That is,
               the behavior will be exactly the same as the case when
               a fun is received by a process after the purge.

               For more information see the documentation of
               erlang:check_process_code/3.


  OTP-13860    Application(s): erts

               Dirty schedulers are now enabled by default when the
               runtime system is built with SMP support.


  OTP-13903    Application(s): erts

               Improved ETS lookup/insert/delete speed for large set,
               bag and duplicate_bag by a significant reduction of the
               hash load factor. This speed improvement comes at the
               expense of less than one word per table entry. Tables
               with less than 256 entries are not affected at all.


  OTP-13908    Application(s): erts

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The NIF library reload feature is not supported
               anymore. It has been marked as deprecated since OTP
               R15B. This means that you are only allowed to do one
               successful call to erlang:load_nif/2 for each module
               instance. A second call to erlang:load_nif/2 will
               return {error, {reload, _}} even if the NIF library
               imlements the reload callback.

               Runtime upgrade of a NIF library is still supported by
               using the Erlang module upgrade mechanics with a
               current and an old module instance existing at the same
               time with their corresponding NIF libraries.


  OTP-13976    Application(s): erts

               Add erlang:system_info(atom_count) and
               erlang:system_info(atom_limit) to provide a way to
               retrieve the current and maximum number of atoms.


  OTP-14000    Application(s): compiler, erts, stdlib

               The function fmod/2 has been added to the math module.


  OTP-14002    Application(s): erts

               erlang:load_nif/2 returns new error type notsup when
               called for a HiPE compiled module, which is not
               supported.


  OTP-14069    Application(s): erts

               Add driver and nif lock instrumentation to lcnt


  OTP-14149    Application(s): erts

               Reduce memory pressure by converting sub-binaries to
               heap-binaries when possible. This is done during
               garbage collection.


  OTP-14152    Application(s): erts

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Dirty schedulers are now enabled and supported on
               Erlang runtime systems with SMP support.

               Besides support for dirty NIFs also support for dirty
               BIFs and dirty garbage collection have been introduced.
               All garbage collections that potentially will take a
               long time to complete are now performed on dirty
               schedulers if enabled.

               erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time) now also
               includes information about dirty CPU schedulers. Code
               using erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time) may have
               to be rewritten to take this incompatibility into
               consideration.


  OTP-14178    Application(s): compiler, erts

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Atoms may now contain arbitrary Unicode characters.


  OTP-14186    Application(s): erts, kernel

               Introduce an event manager in Erlang to handle OS
               signals. A subset of OS signals may be subscribed to
               and those are described in the Kernel application.


  OTP-14201    Application(s): erts
               Related Id(s): PR-1293

               The escript program now handles symbolic links to
               escripts.

               This is useful for standalone systems with escripts
               residing on a bin directory not included in the
               execution path (as it may cause their erl program(s) to
               override the desired one). Instead the escripts can be
               referred to via symbolic links from a bin directory in
               the path.


  OTP-14205    Application(s): erts

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               All uses of the magic binary kludge has been replaced
               by uses of erlang references.

               A magic binary was presented as an empty binary, but
               actually referred other data internally in the Erlang
               VM. Since they were presented as empty binaries,
               different magic binaries compared as equal, and also
               lost their internal data when passed out of an erlang
               node.

               The new usage of references has not got any of these
               strange semantic issues, and the usage of these
               references has been optimized to give the same
               performance benefits as well as memory usage benefits
               as magic binaries had.

               A couple of examples of previous uses of magic binaries
               are match specifications and NIF resources.


  OTP-14272    Application(s): erts, otp

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The non-smp emulators have been deprecated and are
               scheduled for removal in OTP-21.

               In preperations for this, the threaded non-smp emulator
               is no longer built by default and has to be enabled
               using the --enable-plain-emulator to configure.


  OTP-14330    Application(s): erts, hipe
               Related Id(s): PR-1397

               Allow HiPE to run on VM built with --enable-m32-build.


  OTP-14331    Application(s): erts, stdlib
               Related Id(s): ERL-208

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Upgraded the OTP internal PCRE library from version
               8.33 to version 8.40. This library is used for
               implementation of the re regular expressions module.

               Besides various bug fixes, the new version allows for
               better stack protection. In order to utilize this
               feature, the stack size of normal scheduler threads is
               now by default set to 128 kilo words on all platforms.
               The stack size of normal scheduler threads can be set
               upon system start by passing the +sss command line
               argument to the erl command.

               See http://pcre.org/original/changelog.txt for
               information about changes made to PCRE between the
               versions 8.33 and 8.40.


  OTP-14337    Application(s): erl_interface, erts, jinterface

               Remove generation of atoms in old latin1 external
               format. The old latin1 format can still be decoded but
               is never generated by term_to_binary or sent on a
               distribution channel. The new utf8 format for atoms was
               introduced in OTP R16. An OTP 20 node can therefore not
               connect to nodes older than R16.


  OTP-14347    Application(s): erts, stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1412

               Added function re:version/0 which returns information
               about the OTP internal PCRE version used for
               implementation of the re module.


  OTP-14348    Application(s): erts

               Added new debug bif erlang:list_to_port/1.


  OTP-14356    Application(s): erts

               Various improvements of timer management internally in
               the VM. These improvements both reduced memory
               consumption of timer wheels as well as reduce the
               amount of work that has to be performed in order to
               handle timers.


  OTP-14357    Application(s): erts, kernel, runtime_tools
               Related Id(s): PR-1326

               Sockets can now be bound to device (SO_BINDTODEVICE) on
               platforms where it is supported.

               This has been implemented e.g to support VRF-Lite under
               Linux; see

               VRF , and GitHub pull request #1326.


  OTP-14380    Application(s): erts

               Added the following erl command line arguments with
               which you can set suggested stack for dirty schedulers:

               -- +sssdcpu -- for dirty CPU schedulers

               -- +sssdio -- for dirty IO schedulers

               The default suggested stack size for dirty schedulers
               is 40 kilo words.


  OTP-14381    Application(s): erts

               Changed erts startup program name, argv 0, to use the
               environment variable ESCRIPT_NAME so that erlc,
               dialyzer, typer, ct_run, or the escript name can be
               seen with external programs, such as ps and htop
               (depending on options), on unix.

               If environment variable ESCRIPT_NAME is not set, argv 0
               of the invoking program will be used, e.g. the name
               will be erl, cerl, or the soft link name.


  OTP-14384    Application(s): erts
               Related Id(s): OTP-14201

               Improvements of escript documentation.


  OTP-14385    Application(s): erts
               Related Id(s): PR-1413

               Add function enif_hash for NIFs to calculate hash
               values of arbitrary terms.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- eunit-2.3.3 -----------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14287    Application(s): eunit

               The surefire reports from eunit will no longer have
               names with embedded double quotes.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- hipe-3.16 -------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-13862    Application(s): hipe
               Related Id(s): PR-1154

               Fix hipe compiler flags o0 and o1 that have previously
               been ignored by mistake.


  OTP-13983    Application(s): hipe

               Fix LLVM backend to not convert all remote calls to own
               module, like ?MODULE:foo(), into local calls.


  OTP-14238    Application(s): erts, hipe

               Hipe optional LLVM backend does require LLVM version
               3.9 or later as older versions forced strong
               dependencies on erts internals structures.


  OTP-14302    Application(s): hipe
               Related Id(s): ERL-376, PR-1386

               Fix a bug that has been seen causing failed loading of
               hipe compiled modules on NetBSD due to unaligned data
               pointers.


  OTP-14306    Application(s): hipe
               Related Id(s): ERL-278, PR-1392

               Fix miscompilation bug in hipe that could cause wrong
               function clause to be called from non-tail calls, where
               the return value is unused, if the right function
               clause is only reachable from those non-tail calls.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-13810    Application(s): hipe
               Related Id(s): PR-1124

               Improve hipe compilation time for large functions.


  OTP-13831    Application(s): compiler, erts, hipe, kernel, percept,
               stdlib
               Related Id(s): OTP-13735

               Replaced usage of deprecated symbolic time unit
               representations.


  OTP-13879    Application(s): hipe

               Speed up hipe compile time register allocation for
               larger function.


  OTP-14261    Application(s): hipe
               Related Id(s): PR-1360

               Various code generation improvements.


  OTP-14293    Application(s): hipe
               Related Id(s): PR-1380

               Improve hipe compiler to generate code with better CPU
               register utilization at runtime by the use of 'Live
               Range Splitting' techniques.


  OTP-14330    Application(s): erts, hipe
               Related Id(s): PR-1397

               Allow HiPE to run on VM built with --enable-m32-build.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- inets-6.3.9 -----------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14387    Application(s): diameter, inets, megaco

               Typos have been fixed.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- jinterface-1.8 --------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14337    Application(s): erl_interface, erts, jinterface

               Remove generation of atoms in old latin1 external
               format. The old latin1 format can still be decoded but
               is never generated by term_to_binary or sent on a
               distribution channel. The new utf8 format for atoms was
               introduced in OTP R16. An OTP 20 node can therefore not
               connect to nodes older than R16.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- kernel-5.3 ------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14310    Application(s): erl_interface, kernel

               Fix bug where gethostname would incorrectly fail with
               enametoolong on Linux.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-13805    Application(s): kernel

               Since Unicode is now allowed in atoms an extra check is
               needed for node names, which are restricted to Latin-1.


  OTP-13831    Application(s): compiler, erts, hipe, kernel, percept,
               stdlib
               Related Id(s): OTP-13735

               Replaced usage of deprecated symbolic time unit
               representations.


  OTP-13909    Application(s): kernel

               file:write_file(Name, Data, [raw]) would turn Data into
               a single binary before writing. This meant it could not
               take advantage of the writev() system call if it was
               given a list of binaries and told to write with raw
               mode.


  OTP-14057    Application(s): kernel
               Related Id(s): PR-1245

               The performance of the disk_log has been somewhat
               improved in some corner cases (big items), and the
               documentation has been clarified.


  OTP-14059    Application(s): kernel, stdlib

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Functions for detecting changed code has been added.
               code:modified_modules/0 returns all currently loaded
               modules that have changed on disk. code:module_status/1
               returns the status for a module. In the shell and in c
               module, mm/0 is short for code:modified_modules/0, and
               lm/0 reloads all currently loaded modules that have
               changed on disk.


  OTP-14186    Application(s): erts, kernel

               Introduce an event manager in Erlang to handle OS
               signals. A subset of OS signals may be subscribed to
               and those are described in the Kernel application.


  OTP-14357    Application(s): erts, kernel, runtime_tools
               Related Id(s): PR-1326

               Sockets can now be bound to device (SO_BINDTODEVICE) on
               platforms where it is supported.

               This has been implemented e.g to support VRF-Lite under
               Linux; see

               VRF , and GitHub pull request #1326.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- megaco-3.18.2 ---------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14387    Application(s): diameter, inets, megaco

               Typos have been fixed.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- mnesia-4.15 -----------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14039    Application(s): mnesia

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Removed the wrapping of select continuations in
               extension plugin handling. This might require the user
               to rewrite user backend plugin if used.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- observer-2.4 ----------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14137    Application(s): observer

               Show dirty-scheduler threads in performance monitor
               graph and add a column with maximum allocated memory in
               the Memory Allocators table.


  OTP-14270    Application(s): observer

               Keep table and port selection after refresh of tables.
               Store settings before shutdown and restore when
               starting application.


  OTP-14345    Application(s): observer
               Related Id(s): ERL-399

               When observing a node older than OTP-19.0, a pop-up
               will be displayed when trying to access port
               information. Earlier, observer would crash in this
               situation.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- orber-3.8.3 -----------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14006    Application(s): cosProperty, orber

               Fix dialyzer warnings in Orber and CosProperty.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- otp-20.0 --------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-13652    Application(s): otp

               The myths in the Efficiency Guide have been updated.


  OTP-13703    Application(s): otp

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The 'gs' application has been removed.


  OTP-14163    Application(s): otp

               Application percept is moved to a separate repository,
               https://github.com/erlang/percept, and therefore
               removed from the OTP repository.


  OTP-14272    Application(s): erts, otp

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The non-smp emulators have been deprecated and are
               scheduled for removal in OTP-21.

               In preperations for this, the threaded non-smp emulator
               is no longer built by default and has to be enabled
               using the --enable-plain-emulator to configure.


  OTP-14336    Application(s): dialyzer, otp

               TypEr has been removed as separate application and is
               now a part of the Dialyzer application. Documentation
               for TypEr has been added in the Dialyzer application.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- parsetools-2.1.5 ------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14276    Application(s): parsetools
               Related Id(s): PR-1357

               Minor documentation fixes


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14285    Application(s): debugger, edoc, parsetools, stdlib,
               syntax_tools

               Miscellaneous updates due to atoms containing arbitrary
               Unicode characters.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- public_key-1.4.1 ------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14258    Application(s): public_key

               Bug for public_key:generate_key({namedCurve,OID})
               fixed.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14111    Application(s): public_key

               Modernized internal representation used for crl
               validation by use of maps.


  OTP-14294    Application(s): public_key

               Support EC key in pkix_sign/2


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- runtime_tools-1.12 ----------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14316    Application(s): asn1, crypto, runtime_tools
               Related Id(s): PR-1390

               Add compile option -compile(no_native) in modules with
               on_load directive which is not yet supported by HiPE.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14357    Application(s): erts, kernel, runtime_tools
               Related Id(s): PR-1326

               Sockets can now be bound to device (SO_BINDTODEVICE) on
               platforms where it is supported.

               This has been implemented e.g to support VRF-Lite under
               Linux; see

               VRF , and GitHub pull request #1326.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- sasl-3.0.4 ------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14029    Application(s): sasl

               Documented default values for the 'mod' and
               'start_phases' fields in .app files were not allowed as
               actual values in a .app file. This is now corrected.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- ssh-4.5 ---------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-12872    Application(s): ssh

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The internal handling of SSH options is re-written.

               Previously there were no checks if a client option was
               given to a daemon or vice versa. This is corrected now.
               If your code has e.g. a client-only option in a call to
               start a daemon, the call will fail.


  OTP-14110    Application(s): ssh

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Modernization of diffie-hellman algorithms. Removed an
               outdated weak algorithm and added stronger replacements
               to keep interoperability with other ssh clients and
               servers. The default ordering is also adjusted.

               Retired: key-exchange diffie-hellman-group1-sha1. It is
               not enabled by default, but can be enabled with the
               option preferred-algorithms.

               Added: key-exchange diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,
               diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 and
               diffie-hellman-group14-sha256.


  OTP-14117    Application(s): ssh

               Modernized internal representation of sftp by use of
               maps.


  OTP-14193    Application(s): ssh

               The draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-ext-info-05 and
               draft-ietf-curdle-rsa-sha2-05 are (partially)
               implemented.

               The extension server-sig-algs and the signature
               algorithms rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 are
               implemented. The rsa-sha2-* are not enabled by default
               yet since they has a bug. Use option
               preferred_algorithms with key public key to try them.


  OTP-14243    Application(s): ssh

               Ssh:connect, ssh:shell and ssh:start_channel now accept
               an IP-tuple as Host destination argument.


  OTP-14259    Application(s): ssh

               The function ssh:daemon_info/1 now returns Host and
               Profile as well as the Port info.


  OTP-14263    Application(s): ssh

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Removed the option public_key_alg which was deprecated
               in 18.2. Use pref_public_key_algs instead.


  OTP-14264    Application(s): ssh

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The ssh application is refactored regarding daemon
               starting. The resolution of contradicting Host argument
               and ip option were not described. There were also
               strange corner cases when the 'any' value was used in
               Host argument or ip option. This is (hopefully)
               resolved now, but it may cause incompatibilities for
               code using both Host and the ip option. The value
               'loopback' has been added for a correct way of naming
               those addresses.


  OTP-14267    Application(s): ssh
               Related Id(s): OTP-14266

               The supervisor code is refactored. The naming of
               listening IP-Port-Profile tripples are slightly changed
               to improve consistency in strange corner cases as
               resolved by OTP-14264


  OTP-14312    Application(s): ssh

               The idle_time option can now be used in daemons.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- ssl-8.2 ---------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-13820    Application(s): ssl

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               TLS-1.2 clients will now always send hello messages on
               its own format, as opposed to earlier versions that
               will send the hello on the lowest supported version,
               this is a change supported by the latest RFC.

               This will make interoperability with some newer servers
               smoother. Potentially, but unlikely, this could cause a
               problem with older servers if they do not adhere to the
               RFC and ignore unknown extensions.


  OTP-13921    Application(s): crypto, ssl
               Related Id(s): PR-1180

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Allow Erlang/OTP to use OpenSSL in FIPS-140 mode, in
               order to satisfy specific security requirements (mostly
               by different parts of the US federal government).

               See the new crypto users guide "FIPS mode" chapter
               about building and using the FIPS support which is
               disabled by default.

               (Thanks to dszoboszlay and legoscia)


  OTP-14076    Application(s): ssl

               Implemented DTLS cookie generation, requiered by spec,
               instead of using hardcode value.


  OTP-14291    Application(s): ssl

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Extend connection_information/[1,2] . The values
               session_id, master_secret, client_random and
               server_random can no be accessed by
               connection_information/2. Note only session_id will be
               added to connection_information/1. The rational is that
               values concerning the connection security should have
               to be explicitly requested.


  OTP-14382    Application(s): ssl

               Chacha cipher suites are currently not tested enough to
               be most prefered ones


  OTP-14388    Application(s): ssl

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Basic support for DTLS that been tested together with
               OpenSSL.

               Test by providing the option {protocol, dtls} to the
               ssl API functions connect and listen.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- stdlib-3.4 ------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-13690    Application(s): compiler, stdlib

               For many releases, it has been legal to override a BIF
               with a local function having the same name. However,
               calling a local function with the same name as guard
               BIF as filter in a list comprehension was not allowed.


  OTP-14295    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1372

               A new (default) pseudo-random number generator
               algorithm Xoroshiro116+ has been implemented in the
               rand module.

               The old algorithm implementations had a number of flaws
               so they are all deprecated, but corrected versions of
               two of them have been added. See the documentation.


  OTP-14296    Application(s): debugger, stdlib

               The Erlang shell, qlc:string_to_handle(), and the
               Debugger (the Evaluator area and Edit variable window
               of the Bindings area) can parse pids, ports,
               references, and external funs, as long as they can be
               created in the running system.


  OTP-14531    Application(s): stdlib

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               The state machine engine gen_statem can now handle
               generic time-outs (multiple named) as well as absolute
               time-out time. See the documentation.

               The gen_statem callback Module:init/1 has become
               mandatory to harmonize with other gen_* modules. This
               may be an incompatibility for gen_statem callback
               modules that use gen_statem:enter_loop/4-6.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-10289    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): OTP-10309

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Improved unicode support for strings. Added
               normalization functions in the unicode module. Extended
               the string module API with new functions with improved
               unicode handling and that works on grapheme clusters.
               The new functions operates on the unicode:chardata()
               type, thus they also accept UTF-8 binaries as input.

               The old string API have been marked as obsolete. The
               return values have been changed for some error cases.


  OTP-13692    Application(s): erts, stdlib

               There are two new guard BIFs 'floor/1' and 'ceil/1'.
               They both return integers. In the 'math' module, there
               are two new BIFs with the same names that return
               floating point values.


  OTP-13801    Application(s): stdlib

               Making code_change, terminate and handle_info callbacks
               optional in the OTP behaviours.


  OTP-13830    Application(s): stdlib

               The support for Dets files created with Erlang/OTP R7
               and earlier is removed.


  OTP-13831    Application(s): compiler, erts, hipe, kernel, percept,
               stdlib
               Related Id(s): OTP-13735

               Replaced usage of deprecated symbolic time unit
               representations.


  OTP-14000    Application(s): compiler, erts, stdlib

               The function fmod/2 has been added to the math module.


  OTP-14001    Application(s): stdlib

               The EXIT signals received from processes using proc_lib
               now looks like EXIT signals from processes that were
               spawned using spawn_link. In particular, that means
               that the stack trace is now included in the EXIT signal
               so that it can see where the process crashed.


  OTP-14035    Application(s): stdlib

               sets:add_element/2 is faster when adding an element
               that is already present, and sets:del_element/2 is
               faster when the element to be deleted is not present.
               This optimization can make certain operations, such as
               sets:union/2 with many overlapping elements, up to two
               orders of magnitude faster.


  OTP-14037    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1233

               Add information in doc about supervisor shutdown reason
               when maximum restart frequency is reached.


  OTP-14038    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1235

               Added rand:jump/[0|1] functions.


  OTP-14059    Application(s): kernel, stdlib

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Functions for detecting changed code has been added.
               code:modified_modules/0 returns all currently loaded
               modules that have changed on disk. code:module_status/1
               returns the status for a module. In the shell and in c
               module, mm/0 is short for code:modified_modules/0, and
               lm/0 reloads all currently loaded modules that have
               changed on disk.


  OTP-14066    Application(s): stdlib

               Each assert macro in assert.hrl now has a corresponding
               version with an extra argument, for adding comments to
               assertions. These can for example be printed as part of
               error reports, to clarify the meaning of the check that
               failed.


  OTP-14068    Application(s): stdlib

               error_logger_tty_h and error_logger_file_h now inserts
               the node information for nonlocal messages before the
               message itself instead of after, both for readability
               and so as not to change the line termination property
               at the end of the message.


  OTP-14070    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1214

               The Erlang code linter checks for badly formed type
               constraints.


  OTP-14071    Application(s): compiler, stdlib

               By default, there will now be a warning when export_all
               is used. The warning can be disabled using
               nowarn_export_all.


  OTP-14089    Application(s): stdlib

               When a gen_server process crashes, the stacktrace for
               the client will be printed to facilitate debugging.


  OTP-14094    Application(s): stdlib

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Optimized ETS operations by changing table identifier
               type from integer to reference. The reference enables a
               more direct mapping to the table with less potential
               lock contention and makes especially creation and
               deletion of tables scale much better.

               The change of the opaque type for the ETS table
               identifiers may cause failure in code that make faulty
               assumptions about this opaque type.


  OTP-14102    Application(s): stdlib

               take/2 has been added to dict, orddict, and gb_trees.
               take_any/2 has been added to gb_trees.


  OTP-14123    Application(s): stdlib

               Extend gen_event API to handle options as well.


  OTP-14168    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1289

               Advice on how to tune the supervisor restart frequency
               (intensity and period) is added to System Documentation
               - Design Principles - Supervisor Behaviour.


  OTP-14183    Application(s): stdlib

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Replace gen_fsm with gen_statem


  OTP-14190    Application(s): stdlib

               The shell functions c/1 and c/2 have been extended so
               that if the argument is a module name instead of a file
               name, it automatically locates the .beam file and the
               corresponding source file, and then recompiles the
               module using the same compiler options (plus any
               options passed to c/2). If compilation fails, the old
               beam file is preserved. Also adds c(Mod, Opts, Filter),
               where the Filter argument allows you to remove old
               compiler options before the new options are added.

               New utility functions file_find/2/3 and
               find_source/1/2/3 have been added to filelib.


  OTP-14226    Application(s): stdlib

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               erl_tar in previous versions of OTP only supports the
               USTAR format. That limited path names to at most 255
               bytes, and did not support Unicode characters in names
               in a portable way.

               erl_tar now has support for reading tar archives in the
               formats currently in common use, such as v7, STAR,
               USTAR, PAX, and GNU tar's extensions to the STAR/USTAR
               format. When writing tar archives, erl_tar can now
               write them in the PAX format if necessary (for example,
               to support very long filenames or filenames with
               Unicode characters). If possible, erl_tar will still
               write tar archives in the USTAR for maximum
               portability.


  OTP-14245    Application(s): stdlib

               base64:mime_decode/1 has been optimized so that it is
               now almost as fast asbase64:decode/1; it used be
               noticably slower.


  OTP-14278    Application(s): stdlib

               erl_tar will now strip any leading '/' from pathnames
               when extracting files from a tar archive and write a
               message to the error logger. There is also new check
               for directory traversal attacks; if a relative path
               points above the current working directory the
               extraction will be aborted.


  OTP-14285    Application(s): debugger, edoc, parsetools, stdlib,
               syntax_tools

               Miscellaneous updates due to atoms containing arbitrary
               Unicode characters.


  OTP-14317    Application(s): crypto, stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1372

               The Crypto application now supports generation of
               cryptographically strong random numbers (floats < 1.0
               and integer arbitrary ranges) as a plugin to the 'rand'
               module.


  OTP-14319    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1076

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               Add new function ets:select_replace/2 which performs
               atomic "compare-and-swap" operations for ETS objects
               using match specifications.


  OTP-14323    Application(s): stdlib

               The Erlang code linter checks for bad dialyzer
               attributes.


  OTP-14328    Application(s): stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1382

               Two new functions has been implemented in the rand
               module; normal/2 and normal_s/3, that both produce
               normal distribution (pseudo) random numbers with mean
               value and variance according to arguments.


  OTP-14331    Application(s): erts, stdlib
               Related Id(s): ERL-208

               *** HIGHLIGHT ***

               *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

               Upgraded the OTP internal PCRE library from version
               8.33 to version 8.40. This library is used for
               implementation of the re regular expressions module.

               Besides various bug fixes, the new version allows for
               better stack protection. In order to utilize this
               feature, the stack size of normal scheduler threads is
               now by default set to 128 kilo words on all platforms.
               The stack size of normal scheduler threads can be set
               upon system start by passing the +sss command line
               argument to the erl command.

               See http://pcre.org/original/changelog.txt for
               information about changes made to PCRE between the
               versions 8.33 and 8.40.


  OTP-14347    Application(s): erts, stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1412

               Added function re:version/0 which returns information
               about the OTP internal PCRE version used for
               implementation of the re module.


  OTP-14369    Application(s): compiler, dialyzer, stdlib
               Related Id(s): PR-1367

               The format of debug information that is stored in BEAM
               files (when debug_info is used) has been changed. The
               purpose of the change is to better support other
               BEAM-based languages such as Elixir or LFE.

               All tools included in OTP (dialyzer, debugger, cover,
               and so on) will handle both the new format and the
               previous format. Tools that retrieve the debug
               information using beam_lib:chunk(Beam, [abstract_code])
               will continue to work with both the new and old format.
               Tools that call beam_lib:chunk(Beam, ["Abst"]) will not
               work with the new format.

               For more information, see the description of debug_info
               in the documentation for beam_lib and the description
               of the {debug_info,{Backend,Data}} option in the
               documentation for compile.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- syntax_tools-2.1.2 ----------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14285    Application(s): debugger, edoc, parsetools, stdlib,
               syntax_tools

               Miscellaneous updates due to atoms containing arbitrary
               Unicode characters.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- tools-2.10 ------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14339    Application(s): tools
               Related Id(s): ERL-395

               In some situations, make:all() and friends did not
               detect changes in include files located in the current
               directory. This is now corrected.


 --- Improvements and New Features ---

  OTP-14253    Application(s): tools

               The make module now accepts the {emake,Emake} option.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- wx-1.8.1 --------------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14289    Application(s): wx

               Fix a livelock that could be caused by wx:batch/1.


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 --- xmerl-1.3.14 ----------------------------------------------------
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

 --- Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions ---

  OTP-14377    Application(s): xmerl
               Related Id(s): PR-1369

               Improves accumulator fun in xmerl_scan so that only one
               #xmlText record is returned for strings which have
               character references.

               (Thanks to Jimmy Zöger)