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+To: erlang patches <[email protected]>
+Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-02-11)
+X-dev-at: 75bc5e521dcc9ab798acefb5400f5f15354f08fd
+
+The dead-line for erts, kernel, stdlib, and compiler
+has passed. Any new patches for any of those applications
+will not be considered for inclusion in R13B04
+(unless they are corrections for serious bugs).
+
+Because of the unexpected amount of patches turning up
+on the day of the feature freeze there is now a
+revised schedule:
+
+* February 15, 10.00 CET. Emails with patches received after
+  that time will basically be ignored until the release is over,
+  unless they are corrections for serious bugs.
+
+* February 17 is the feature freeze Erlang/OTP.
+
+* February 24 is the day of the release.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Graduated]
+
+* egil/egd_render (percept) (2010-02-04) 1 commit
+ + Fix egd_render transparent to use float constants (e7842b4)
+
+* egil/lcnt (erts, tools) (2010-02-01) 6 commits
+ + Add test suite for lcnt in tools (9a22cca)
+ + Add lcnt:rt_opt/1 bindings to erts_debug (98b2678)
+ + Add runtime option to enable/disable lcnt stats (628aa0e)
+ + Add auto width on string output (cfff4e9)
+ + Add lcnt documentation (eec56b2)
+ + Add lock profiling tool (e3c82f0)
+
+* gc/hipe_darwin_amd64 (erts) (2010-01-12) 4 commits
+ + Fix hipe memory allocation problems on darwin/amd64 (56c0170)
+ + Porting x86 darwin fixes to amd64 darwin hipe asm/m4 code (d17dd27)
+ + Automatically enable hipe for darwin/amd64 builds (022fa2d)
+ + Allow configure to enable_hipe for darwin/amd64 builds (8421cad)
+
+* jn/supervisor_child_count_only (stdlib) (2010-01-25) 1 commit
+ - Add count_children/1 to supervisor.erl to determine the number of children being managed without the memory impact of which_children/1 (1686757)
+
+* ks/compiler (compiler) (2010-02-05) 3 commits
+ + compiler: keep line numbers for attributes (a612e99)
+ + compiler Makefile: alphabetize module names (054b4fd)
+ + compile.erl: eliminate compiler warning (4e34336)
+
+* ks/erl_lint (stdlib) (2010-02-09) 2 commits
+ + erl_lint_SUITE: adjust failing test case (a037310)
+ + Allow recursive types and check for undefined types (b07101c)
+
+* mp/hipe_unified_loader (kernel) (2010-02-09) 1 commit
+ + hipe_unified_loader: only block SMP scheduling when necessary (4a158f3)
+
+* pan/enable_m32_build (erts, otp) (2009-12-08) 1 commit
+ + Teach configure --enable-m32-build for forcing a 32-bit build (cad901a)
+
+* po/odbc-update-delete-no-rows (odbc) (2009-11-26) 1 commit
+ + SQL_NO_DATA and SQLSTATE 00000 indicate success for updates/deletes that affect no rows (1a564f8)
+
+* rani/inet_gethostbyname_fixes (erts, kernel) (2010-02-04) 6 commits
+ + inet_res_SUITE: testcase fixes for legacy DNS resolver (Solaris 8) (7dbd225)
+ + inet_res: /etc/resolv.conf: use domain as default search list (8de5ac7)
+ + inet: delayed/avoided read of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts (0377ecd)
+ + inet_gethost_native: workaround for empty result hostname on MacOS X (a53dfdc)
+ + inet_res_SUITE: testcase fix for empty domain name (502afaf)
+ + inet:gethostbyname improved to parse IP strings and look up own hostname (cc90d8c)
+
+* sc/sctp-connect-nowait (kernel) (2009-12-21) 1 commit
+ + Implement a non-blocking SCTP connect (827bb85)
+
+* ta/code_clash_ez (kernel) (2010-02-05) 3 commits
+ + code_SUITE: add missing is_list(Config) guard (c390221)
+ + Add tests for code:clash/0 (79194d5)
+ + Fix handling of archive (.ez) files in code:clash/0 (49da83d)
+
+* ta/otp_build_sed_newline (otp) (2010-02-09) 1 commit
+ . Make newline in RHS of lib/configure sed substition more portable (b5a5513)
+
+(Included directly in ccase/r13b04_dev.)
+
+* ws/cross-compile-configuration (otp) (2010-02-09) 1 commit
+ + Add cross-compile configuration for Atmel AVR32-Linux (NGW100) (2274aa6)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[New topics]
+
+* bd/doc-fixes (erts, mnesia, stdlib) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
+ - Fix minor documentation errors (3cb8a87)
+
+* bg/safer-local_to_univ (erts) (2010-02-11) 1 commit
+ - erl_time_sup.c: test for error return from mktime() (0f62f0b)
+
+* kl/extensibility-implied (asn1) (2010-02-05) 3 commits
+ - Updated ticket reference (a1a09bc)
+ - Add support for EXTENSIBILITY IMPLIED, SET/SEQ OF NamedType (debc35b)
+ - Updated version number for the next version of ASN1 (48d0efe)
+
+* kr/crypto_makefile (crypto) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
+ - Fix Makefile permission problem of crypto library on FreeBSD Erlang/OTP building (a7491f2)
+
+* kr/gs-browser (gs) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
+ - Change lib/gs/src/tool_utils.erl to select multiple browsers other than Netscape (802d159)
+
+* kr/odbc-netinet (odbc) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
+ - Fix ODBC compilation error on FreeBSD by adding netinet/in.h to #include macros (5c6be09)
+
+* kr/sasl-typo-fix (sasl) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
+ - sasl: Fix typo (b798e9b)
+
+* ks/kernel-cleanups (kernel) (2010-02-09) 2 commits
+ - Add types and specs + cleanup. (e86ced3)
+ - Clean up as suggested by tidier. (b730728)
+
+* ks/stdlib-cleanups (stdlib) (2010-02-08) 1 commit
+ - stdlib: clean up as suggested by tidier (48654b0)
+
+Reviewed and approved. Graduation pending.
+
+* ms/pcre-security (erts, stdlib) (2010-02-10) 1 commit
+ - Fix CVE-2008-2371 (outer level option with alternatives caused crash). (bb6370a)
+
+* yh/packet_option_for_new_ssl_send (ssl) (2010-02-09) 2 commits
+ - fixup! prepend packet size bytes in ssl:send() in new_ssl implementation (5fff0e3)
+ - prepend packet size bytes in ssl:send() in new_ssl implementation (df6b01c)
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+[Cooking]
+
+* at/odbc_osx_fix (odbc) (2009-11-30) 1 commit
+ - Workaround broken ODBC implementation on OSX 10.5 (88c71c9)
+
+Being reviewed.
+
+* bg/erl_bif_types (hipe) (2010-02-03) 2 commits
+ - Add types for erts_debug:dist_ext_to_term/2 (249f73a)
+ - erl_bif_types: add 'http_bin' as a valid packet option (7c72a77)
+
+* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, hipe, kernel) (2010-01-31) 4 commits
+ - Crudely fix return type for the lists:key{search,find,member}/3 (0e3ab3e)
+ - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (c9fc04b)
+ - Disable native code if on_load is used (bd4fe28)
+ - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (8aadc4c)
+
+This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test
+cases and is never intended to graduate.
+
+* db/tv_nthtail_fix (tv) (2009-12-01) 1 commit
+ - Fix for tv which restarts while trying to open a table (abe0759)
+
+The author of this topic branch has found the real reason for
+the problem and has made some progress in resolving it.
+
+* dgud/emacs-mode (tools) (2010-01-26) 2 commits
+ - Added the old style skeletons, and a variable to change. (2cbe853)
+ - Move code skeletons to a separate file. Use the updated skeletons from the Erlware Mode. (b4fd161)
+
+* jn/sasl-format_report (sasl) (2010-01-27) 1 commit
+ - Added sasl_report:format_report/3 to return a string rather than send an io (ee8f29f)
+
+* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2010-01-12) 2 commits
+ - squash! fix snprintf for Windows (bf2708d)
+ - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (7cbc437)
+
+Approved in principle by the OTP Technical Board; now awaits a closer
+review of the implementation. Unfortunately, will not make it for R13B04.
+
+* ks/cleanups (asn1, debugger, docbuilder, gs, os_mon, parsetools, percept, runtime_tools, sasl, wx) (2010-02-07) 11 commits
+ - percept: Modernize types and specs and clean up as suggested by tidier (10422fb)
+ - debugger: Clean up as suggested by tidier (cf178ed)
+ - docbuilder: Clean up as suggested by tidier (222ae3f)
+ - parsetools: Modernize types and specs + cleanup by tidier (5659cd0)
+ - runtime_tools: Modernize specs (774e7fd)
+ - sasl: Eliminate tuple used as fun (f48ed8b)
+ - sasl: Add missing modules to app file (45a39a2)
+ - asn1: Clean up as suggested by tidier (405578b)
+ - os_mon: Modernize types and specs (7b7f8b7)
+ - wx: Clean up as suggested by tidier (9b79d9b)
+ - gs: Clean up as suggested by tidier (afd194b)
+
+* ks/hipe-fixes (erts, hipe) (2010-02-05) 3 commits
+ - Remove $Id$ (44e6b63)
+ - Adds types and specs to files in erts/preloaded. (d0db7f4)
+ - Fix a HiPE compiler bug evaluating an expression that throws system_limit. (9df43dc)
+
+* tj/asn1_macro_prefix (asn1) (2010-02-04) 1 commit
+ - Add support for prefixing macro names generated by the compiler (e88fa38)
+
+* va/rb-improvements (sasl) (2010-02-06) 5 commits
+ - uses module re for regular expressions (f15b05a)
+ - New function to filter reports by date (58f4cd1)
+ - New rb:filter/1 function to ease report filtering (55eccfa)
+ - Add rb:re/1 to grep reports using the re module (202d6ac)
+ - Fix minor typo in read_report/1 (7d645b7)