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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
index a4867adf22..058c1662e8 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,485 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the ERTS application.</p>
+<section><title>Erts 5.8</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Driver threads, such as async threads, using <seealso
+ marker="erl_driver#ErlDrvPDL">port data locks</seealso>
+ peeked at the port status field without proper locking
+ when looking up the driver queue.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8475</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The use of <c>mmap()</c> was unnecessarily disabled when
+ cross compiling.</p>
+ <p>
+ The <c>configure</c> arguments <c>--with-ssl</c>, and
+ <c>--with-odbc</c> refused to accept libraries outside of
+ <c>$erl_xcomp_sysroot</c> when cross compiling for no
+ good reason.</p>
+ <p>
+ The <c>configure</c> argument <c>--with-odbc</c> didn't
+ handle the value <c>yes</c> correct.</p>
+ <p>
+ The <c>configure</c> arguments <c>--with-odbc</c>, and
+ <c>--without-odbc</c> have also been added to the
+ configure help.</p>
+ <p>
+ (Thanks to Steve Vinoski for reporting these issues)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8484</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A call to the BIF <c>unregister(RegName)</c> when a port
+ had the name <c>RegName</c> registered in the runtime
+ system without SMP support caused a runtime system crash.
+ (Thanks to Per Hedeland for the bugfix and test case.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8487</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The runtime system crashed if fewer logical processors
+ were found than reported by <c>sysconf(
+ SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8549</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix memory management bug causing crash of non-SMP
+ emulator with async threads enabled. The bug did first
+ appear in R13B03.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8591 Aux Id: seq11554 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Port locks could be prematurely destroyed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8612</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The <c>empd</c> program could loop and consume 100%
+ CPU time if an unexpected error ocurred in
+ <c>listen()</c> or <c>accept()</c>. Now <c>epmd</c> will
+ terminate if a non-recoverable error occurs. (Thanks to
+ Michael Santos.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8618</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When kernel poll has been enabled, a livelock could in
+ rare circumstances occur. Problem reported by Chetan
+ Ahuja, fix by Mikael Pettersson.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8632</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Windows: Closing port of program that stalled without
+ reading all data could deadlock scheduler thread.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8641</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ On some combination of Montavista Linux on Cavium Octeon
+ processors, some socket-related system calls returned
+ other numbers than -1 for errors. This caused a core dump
+ in inet_drv.c. Now the code works around this problem.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8654</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Missing memory barriers in <c>erts_poll()</c> could cause
+ the runtime system to hang indefinitely.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8658</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>ethr_rwmutex_tryrlock()</c> acquired and refused to
+ acquire a lock with inverted logic. The lock was however
+ never acquired in a thread unsafe manner. (Thanks to JR
+ Zhang for noting this issue)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8662</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Extreme combinations of register/unregister in a highly
+ parallell SMP application could crash the VM. The error
+ is corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8663</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ On Windows, files are now opened with FILE_SHARE_DELETE
+ to get closer to Unix semantics.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8667</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>erlang:system_info(multi_scheduling)</c> sometimes
+ erroneously returned <c>enabled</c> when it should have
+ returned <c>blocked</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8675</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug causing <c>erlang:decode_packet</c> and
+ <c>enif_make_string</c> to generate faulty strings with
+ negative character values for ascii values larger than
+ 127. (Thanks to Paul Guyot)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8685</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>open_port/2</c> with the <c>spawn</c> and
+ <c>spawn_executable</c> options can include an
+ <c>{env,Env}</c> option. In some cases unsetting
+ variables would not work on Unix (typically if more
+ variables were unset than were actually present in the
+ environment).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8701</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The grammar for match specifications in ERTS users guide
+ only described the tracing dialect of match
+ specifications. An informal grammar for the ETS dialect
+ is added.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8086 Aux Id: seq11333 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The module binary from EEP31 (and EEP9) is implemented.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8217</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ New NIF API function <c>enif_make_new_binary</c></p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8474</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The guard BIF <c>is_boolean/1</c> (introduced in R10B)
+ has now been included in the lists of BIFs allowed in
+ guards in the Reference Manual.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8477</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Added function <c>zip:foldl/3</c> to iterate over zip
+ archives.</p>
+ <p>
+ Added functions to create and extract escripts. See
+ <c>escript:create/2</c> and <c>escript:extract/2</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ The undocumented function <c>escript:foldl/3</c> has been
+ removed. The same functionality can be achieved with the
+ more flexible functions <c>escript:extract/2</c> and
+ <c>zip:foldl/3</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Record fields has been annotated with type info. Source
+ files as been adapted to fit within 80 chars and trailing
+ whitespace has been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8521</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>A regular expression with many levels of parenthesis
+ could cause a buffer overflow. That has been corrected.
+ (Thanks to Michael Santos.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8539</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>erlang:decode_packet(httph_bin,..)</c> could return
+ corrupt header strings or even crash the VM. This has
+ been fixed. It only happened on 32-bit VM if the header
+ name was unknown and between 16 and 20 characters long.
+ Sockets with simular <c>packet</c> option did not suffer
+ from this bug.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8548</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>New NIF features:</p> <list><item> Send messages from
+ a NIF, or from thread created by NIF, to any local
+ process (<c>enif_send</c>) </item><item> Store terms
+ between NIF calls (<c>enif_alloc_env</c>,
+ <c>enif_make_copy</c>) </item><item> Create binary terms
+ with user defined memory management
+ (<c>enif_make_resource_binary</c>) </item></list> <p>And
+ some incompatible changes made to the API. For more
+ information see the warning text in <seealso
+ marker="erl_nif">erl_nif(3)</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8555</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>If the '<c>fop</c>' program (needed for building PDF
+ files) cannot not be found, it is now possible to build
+ the HTML and man pages anyway (there will also be dummy
+ PDF files with no real content created). (Thanks to
+ Tuncer Ayaz.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8559</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When defining macros the closing right parenthesis
+ before the dot is now mandatory.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8562</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Local and imported functions now override the
+ auto-imported BIFs when the names clash. The pre R14
+ behaviour was that auto-imported BIFs would override
+ local functions. To avoid that old programs change
+ behaviour, the following will generate an error:</p>
+ <list><item><p>Doing a call without explicit module name
+ to a local function having a name clashing with the name
+ of an auto-imported BIF that was present (and
+ auto-imported) before OTP R14A</p></item>
+ <item><p>Explicitly importing a function having a name
+ clashing with the name of an autoimported BIF that was
+ present (and autoimported) before OTP R14A</p></item>
+ <item><p>Using any form of the old compiler directive
+ <c>nowarn_bif_clash</c></p></item> </list> <p>If the BIF
+ was added or auto-imported in OTP R14A or later,
+ overriding it with an import or a local function will
+ only result in a warning,</p> <p>To resolve clashes, you
+ can either use the explicit module name <c>erlang</c> to
+ call the BIF, or you can remove the auto-import of that
+ specific BIF by using the new compiler directive
+ <c>-compile({no_auto_import,[F/A]}).</c>, which makes all
+ calls to the local or imported function without explicit
+ module name pass without warnings or errors.</p> <p>The
+ change makes it possible to add auto-imported BIFs
+ without breaking or silently changing old code in the
+ future. However some current code ingeniously utilizing
+ the old behaviour or the <c>nowarn_bif_clash</c> compiler
+ directive, might need changing to be accepted by the
+ compiler.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8579</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A bug in re that could cause certain regular expression
+ matches never to terminate is corrected. (Thanks to
+ Michael Santos and Gordon Guthrie.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8589</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The erlang:open_port spawn and spawn_executable
+ directives can include an <c>{env,Env}</c> directive to
+ set up environment variables for the spawned process. A
+ bug prevented applications from using <c>{env,Env}</c> to
+ set an environment variable whose value ended with a
+ '<c>=</c>' (equal sign) character; the trailing equal
+ sign was mistaken as an indication that an environment
+ variable was to be cleared from the environment of the
+ spawned process. (Thanks to Steve Vinoski.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8614</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>receive</c> statements that can only read out a
+ newly created reference are now specially optimized so
+ that it will execute in constant time regardless of the
+ number of messages in the receive queue for the process.
+ That optimization will benefit calls to
+ <c>gen_server:call()</c>. (See <c>gen:do_call/4</c> for
+ an example of a receive statement that will be
+ optimized.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8623</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The functions file:advise/4 and file:datasync/1 have been
+ added. (Thanks to Filipe David Manana.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8637</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ New NIF API functions: <c>enif_make_atom_len</c>,
+ <c>enif_make_existing_atom_len</c>,
+ <c>enif_make_string_len</c>, <c>enif_get_atom_length</c>,
+ <c>enif_get_list_length</c>, <c>enif_is_list</c>,
+ <c>enif_is_tuple</c> (by Tuncer Ayaz)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8640</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Support for using gcc's built-in functions for atomic
+ memory access has been added. This functionallity will be
+ used if available and no other native atomic
+ implementation in ERTS is available.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8659</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The number of spinlocks used when implementing atomic
+ fall-backs when no native atomic implementation is
+ available has been increased from 16 to 1024.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8660</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Writer preferred pthread read/write locks has been
+ enabled on Linux.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8661</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The runtime system will by default bind schedulers to
+ logical processors using the <c>default_bind</c> bind
+ type if the amount of schedulers are at least equal to
+ the amount of logical processors configured, binding of
+ schedulers is supported, and a CPU topology is available
+ at startup. </p>
+ <p>
+ <em>NOTE:</em> If the Erlang runtime system is the only
+ operating system process that binds threads to logical
+ processors, this improves the performance of the runtime
+ system. However, if other operating system processes (as
+ for example another Erlang runtime system) also bind
+ threads to logical processors, there might be a
+ performance penalty instead. If this is the case you, are
+ are advised to unbind the schedulers using the <seealso
+ marker="erl#+sbt">+sbtu</seealso> command line argument,
+ or by invoking <seealso
+ marker="erlang#system_flag_scheduler_bind_type">erlang:system_flag(scheduler_bind_type,
+ unbound)</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8666</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The recently added BIFs erlang:min/2, erlang:max/2 and
+ erlang:port_command/3 are now auto-imported (as they were
+ originally intended to be). Due to the recent compiler
+ change (OTP-8579), the only impact on old code defining
+ it's own min/2, max/2 or port_command/3 functions will be
+ a warning, the local functions will still be used. The
+ warning can be removed by using
+ -compile({no_auto_import,[min/2,max/2,port_command/3]}).
+ in the source file.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8669 Aux Id: OTP-8579 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ There is a new option 'exclusive' to file:open/2 that
+ uses the OS O_EXCL flag where supported to open the file
+ in exclusive mode.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8670</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Now, binary_to_term/2 is auto-imported. This will cause a
+ compile warning if and only if a module has got a local
+ function with that name.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8671</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Alignment of scheduler data and run queues were adjusted.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8673</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Call time breakpoint tracing</p> <list><item>Introduce
+ a <c>call_time</c> option to
+ <c>erlang:trace_pattern/3</c>.This option enables call
+ time breakpoint tracing on code that is executed by
+ processes with call tracing enabled. Call time tracing
+ stores the number of calls and the time spent of each
+ function with this trace pattern enabled. The information
+ can be retrieved with <c>erlang:trace_info/2</c></item>
+ <item>Add a scheduler array for BpData. To solve the
+ issue of multiple schedulers constantly updating the head
+ pointer to the bp data wheel, each scheduler now has its
+ own entrypoint to the wheel. This head pointer can be
+ updated without a locking being taken.</item></list>
+ <p>Teach call count tracing to use atomics</p>
+ <list><item>Call count previously used a global lock for
+ accessing and writing its counter in the breakpoint. This
+ is now changed to atomics instead.</item> <item>The
+ change will let call count tracing and cprof to scale
+ better when increasing the number of
+ schedulers.</item></list>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8677</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>eprof</c> has been reimplemented with support in
+ the Erlang virtual machine and is now both faster (i.e.
+ slows down the code being measured less) and scales much
+ better. In measurements we saw speed-ups compared to the
+ old eprof ranging from 6 times (for sequential code that
+ only uses one scheduler/core) up to 84 times (for
+ parallel code that uses 8 cores).</p>
+ <p>Note: The API for the <c>eprof</c> has been cleaned up
+ and extended. See the documentation.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8706</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Erts 5.7.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/appmon/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/appmon/doc/src/notes.xml
index 219b5671a4..29e66411a6 100644
--- a/lib/appmon/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/appmon/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,21 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Appmon application.</p>
+<section><title>Appmon 2.1.12</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Warnings due to new autoimported BIFs removed</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8674 Aux Id: OTP-8579 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Appmon 2.1.11</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/asn1/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/asn1/doc/src/notes.xml
index 5eadb0c90c..c5ec682e0f 100644
--- a/lib/asn1/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/asn1/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,25 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the asn1 application.</p>
+<section><title>Asn1 1.6.14</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ By default, the ASN.1 compiler is now silent in the
+ absence of warnings or errors. The new '<c>verbose</c>'
+ option or the '<c>-v</c>' option for <c>erlc</c> can be
+ given to show extra information (for instance, about the
+ files that are generated). (Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8565</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Asn1 1.6.13</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml
index 4f5f6caa8c..eadfc83c07 100644
--- a/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,152 @@
<file>notes.xml</file>
</header>
+<section><title>Common_Test 1.5</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Process calls using monitors in Common Test would not
+ clear the inbox of remaining DOWN messages. This has been
+ fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8621 Aux Id: seq11560 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ It is now possible for the user to provide specific
+ callback modules that handle test configuration data, so
+ that data on arbitray form can be accessed (e.g. by
+ reading files or by communicating with a configuration
+ server process). Two default callback modules have been
+ introduced in Common Test: ct_config_plain and
+ ct_config_xml. The former is used to handle the
+ traditional Common Test configuration files (with terms
+ on key-value tuple form) and the latter to handle
+ configuration data on XML representation.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8485</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ It is now possible to execute test suites that are not
+ necessarily available on the local file system, but have
+ been loaded on the test node in advance (e.g. sent as
+ binaries from a remote node and loaded by RPC). A
+ requirement is that the no_auto_compile (or
+ {auto_compile,false}) parameter has been set.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8490 Aux Id: seq11500 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Test Server will now call the end_per_testcase/2 function
+ even if the test case has been terminated explicitly
+ (with abort_current_testcase/1), or after a timetrap
+ timeout. Under these circumstances the return value of
+ end_per_testcase is completely ignored. Therefore the
+ function will not be able to change the reason for test
+ case termination by returning {fail,Reason}, nor will it
+ be able to save data with {save_config,Data}.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8500 Aux Id: seq11521 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ It is now possible to use the test specification term
+ 'init' to start Common Test nodes automatically, as well
+ as have initial function calls evaluated on the nodes. A
+ default callback module for the 'init' term, ct_slave,
+ has been introduced to enable Common Test Master to
+ perform host login and node startup operations over ssh.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8570</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The run_test script has been replaced by a program (with
+ the same name) which can be executed without explicit
+ installation. The start flags are the same as for the
+ legacy start script.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8650</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Previously, a repeat property of a test case group
+ specified the number of times the group should be
+ repeated after the main test run. I.e. {repeat,N} would
+ case the group to execute 1+N times. To be consistent
+ with the behaviour of the run_test repeat option, this
+ has been changed. N now specifies the absolute number of
+ executions instead.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8689 Aux Id: seq11502 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ With the run_test -erl_args option, it's possible to
+ divide the options on the run_test command line into ones
+ that Common Test should process (those preceding
+ -erl_args, and ones it should ignore (those succeeding
+ -erl_args). Options preceding -erl_args that Common Test
+ doesn't recognize are also ignored (i.e. the same
+ behaviour as earlier versions of Common Test).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8690 Aux Id: OTP-8650 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Directories added with -pa or -pz in the pre-erl_args
+ part of the run_test command line will be converted from
+ relative to absolute, this to avoid problems loading user
+ modules when Common Test switches working directory
+ during the test run.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8691 Aux Id: OTP-8650 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The timetrap handling has been made more user
+ controllable by means of new start options and new ct
+ interface functions. With the 'multiply_timetraps' start
+ option, it's possible to specify a value which all
+ timetrap timeout values get multiplied by. This is useful
+ e.g. to extend the timetraps temporarily while running
+ cover or trace. The 'scale_timetraps' start option
+ switches on or off the Test Server timetrap scaling
+ feature (which tries to detect if the tests may benefit
+ from extended timetraps, e.g. due to running certain test
+ tools, and performs the scaling automatically).
+ Furthermore, the ct:timetrap/1 function has been
+ introduced, which makes it possible to set/reset
+ timetraps during test execution. Also, a ct:sleep/1
+ function is now available, which takes the timetrap
+ parameters into account when calculating the time to
+ suspend the process.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8693</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A new run_test start option, event_handler_init, has been
+ added that takes a start argument which gets passed to
+ the init function of the event handler.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8694</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Common_Test 1.4.7</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/compiler/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/compiler/doc/src/notes.xml
index 7ea000a895..c08839bc7b 100644
--- a/lib/compiler/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/compiler/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,106 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Compiler
application.</p>
+<section><title>Compiler 4.7</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Several problems in the inliner have been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8552</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The module binary from EEP31 (and EEP9) is implemented.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8217</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Local and imported functions now override the
+ auto-imported BIFs when the names clash. The pre R14
+ behaviour was that auto-imported BIFs would override
+ local functions. To avoid that old programs change
+ behaviour, the following will generate an error:</p>
+ <list><item><p>Doing a call without explicit module name
+ to a local function having a name clashing with the name
+ of an auto-imported BIF that was present (and
+ auto-imported) before OTP R14A</p></item>
+ <item><p>Explicitly importing a function having a name
+ clashing with the name of an autoimported BIF that was
+ present (and autoimported) before OTP R14A</p></item>
+ <item><p>Using any form of the old compiler directive
+ <c>nowarn_bif_clash</c></p></item> </list> <p>If the BIF
+ was added or auto-imported in OTP R14A or later,
+ overriding it with an import or a local function will
+ only result in a warning,</p> <p>To resolve clashes, you
+ can either use the explicit module name <c>erlang</c> to
+ call the BIF, or you can remove the auto-import of that
+ specific BIF by using the new compiler directive
+ <c>-compile({no_auto_import,[F/A]}).</c>, which makes all
+ calls to the local or imported function without explicit
+ module name pass without warnings or errors.</p> <p>The
+ change makes it possible to add auto-imported BIFs
+ without breaking or silently changing old code in the
+ future. However some current code ingeniously utilizing
+ the old behaviour or the <c>nowarn_bif_clash</c> compiler
+ directive, might need changing to be accepted by the
+ compiler.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8579</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The undocumented, unsupport, and deprecated function
+ <c>lists:flat_length/1</c> has been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8584</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Nested records can now be accessed without
+ parenthesis. See the Reference Manual for examples.
+ (Thanks to YAMASHINA Hio and Tuncer Ayaz.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8597</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>It is now possible to suppress the warning in code
+ such as "<c>list_to_integer(S), ok</c>" by assigning the
+ ignored value "_" like this: "<c>_ = list_to_integer(S),
+ ok</c>".</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8602</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>receive</c> statements that can only read out a
+ newly created reference are now specially optimized so
+ that it will execute in constant time regardless of the
+ number of messages in the receive queue for the process.
+ That optimization will benefit calls to
+ <c>gen_server:call()</c>. (See <c>gen:do_call/4</c> for
+ an example of a receive statement that will be
+ optimized.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8623</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The compiler optimizes record operations better.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8668</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Compiler 4.6.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/crypto/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/crypto/doc/src/notes.xml
index 6b9d1f56f1..79798331ca 100644
--- a/lib/crypto/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/crypto/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,43 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Crypto application.</p>
+<section><title>Crypto 2.0</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ crypto application changed to use NIFs instead of driver.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8333</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ des_ecb_encrypt/2 and des_ecb_decrypt/2 has been added to
+ the crypto module. The crypto:md4/1 function has been
+ documented.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8551</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The undocumented, unsupport, and deprecated function
+ <c>lists:flat_length/1</c> has been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8584</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ New variants of <c>crypto:dss_sign</c> and
+ <c>crypto:dss_verify</c> with an extra argument to
+ control how the digest is calculated.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8700</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Crypto 1.6.4</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/debugger/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/debugger/doc/src/notes.xml
index afd49e8593..c5f611b8f3 100644
--- a/lib/debugger/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/debugger/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,30 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Debugger
application.</p>
+<section><title>Debugger 3.2.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Warnings due to new autoimported BIFs removed</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8674 Aux Id: OTP-8579 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The predefined builtin type tid() has been removed.
+ Instead, ets:tid() should be used.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8687</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Debugger 3.2.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/dialyzer/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/dialyzer/doc/src/notes.xml
index b6106b928a..856af01525 100755
--- a/lib/dialyzer/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/dialyzer/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,41 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Dialyzer
application.</p>
+<section><title>Dialyzer 2.3.0</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Various changes to dialyzer-related files for R14.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Dialyzer properly supports the new attribute
+ -export_type and checks that remote types only refer to
+ exported types. A warning is produced if some
+ files/applications refer to types defined in modules
+ which are neither in the PLT nor in the analyzed
+ applications.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Support for detecting data races involving whereis/1
+ and unregister/1.</p>
+ <p>
+ - More precise identification of the reason(s) why a
+ record construction violates the types declared for its
+ fields.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Fixed bug in the handling of the 'or' guard.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Better handling of the erlang:element/2 BIF.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Complete handling of Erlang BIFs.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8699</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Dialyzer 2.2.0</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes.xml
index 14aec4a4d9..848da9cb23 100644
--- a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,45 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Erl_interface application.</p>
+<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.7</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>compact IEEE 754 double encoding in external binary
+ format for ei</p> <list><item><p>Implement the compact
+ IEEE 754 double encoding in external binary format for
+ ei. Encoding for ei now always produces the NEW_FLOAT_EXT
+ format. Decoding and term printing handle both the old
+ ERL_FLOAT_EXT encoding and the new NEW_FLOAT_EXT
+ encoding. </p></item> <item><p>Legacy erl_interface code
+ also handles the new encoding, but still produces the
+ ERL_FLOAT_EXT encoding by default.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Also enable the DFLAG_NEW_FLOATS distribution
+ flag.</p></item> <item><p>ei_get_type() will return
+ ERL_FLOAT_EXT regardless if the external format is
+ encoded with ERL_FLOAT_EXT or NEW_FLOAT_EXT for
+ doubles.</p></item> <item><p>Reduce the number of copies
+ of the code for encoding and decoding doubles throughout
+ ei and erl_interface by instead calling the ei encoding
+ and decoding functions wherever possible.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Restore commented-out float tests in
+ ei_decode_SUITE and ei_encode_SUITE in
+ lib/erl_interface/test. Modify them to make them match
+ the style of other tests in the same suites.</p></item>
+ </list> <p>These changes are based on an ei float patch
+ from Serge Aleynikov originally submitted against R12B-2
+ in July 2008 and reworked by Steve Vinoski May 2010.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8684</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.6.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/gs/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/gs/doc/src/notes.xml
index 8e4032ccc1..352c335e23 100644
--- a/lib/gs/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/gs/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2010</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
-
+
Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
under the License.
-
+
</legalnotice>
<title>GS Release Notes</title>
@@ -47,7 +47,22 @@
</section>
</section>
- <section><title>GS 1.5.11</title>
+ <section><title>GS 1.5.12</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Warnings due to new autoimported BIFs removed</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8674 Aux Id: OTP-8579 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>GS 1.5.11</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
diff --git a/lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml
index 2c78558190..7b34a4f427 100644
--- a/lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/hipe/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,68 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to HiPE.</p>
+<section><title>Hipe 3.7.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>receive</c> statements that can only read out a
+ newly created reference are now specially optimized so
+ that it will execute in constant time regardless of the
+ number of messages in the receive queue for the process.
+ That optimization will benefit calls to
+ <c>gen_server:call()</c>. (See <c>gen:do_call/4</c> for
+ an example of a receive statement that will be
+ optimized.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8623</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Various changes to dialyzer-related files for R14.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Dialyzer properly supports the new attribute
+ -export_type and checks that remote types only refer to
+ exported types. A warning is produced if some
+ files/applications refer to types defined in modules
+ which are neither in the PLT nor in the analyzed
+ applications.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Support for detecting data races involving whereis/1
+ and unregister/1.</p>
+ <p>
+ - More precise identification of the reason(s) why a
+ record construction violates the types declared for its
+ fields.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Fixed bug in the handling of the 'or' guard.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Better handling of the erlang:element/2 BIF.</p>
+ <p>
+ - Complete handling of Erlang BIFs.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8699</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>eprof</c> has been reimplemented with support in
+ the Erlang virtual machine and is now both faster (i.e.
+ slows down the code being measured less) and scales much
+ better. In measurements we saw speed-ups compared to the
+ old eprof ranging from 6 times (for sequential code that
+ only uses one scheduler/core) up to 84 times (for
+ parallel code that uses 8 cores).</p>
+ <p>Note: The API for the <c>eprof</c> has been cleaned up
+ and extended. See the documentation.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8706</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Hipe 3.7.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml
index 9c3f6524ae..a692aa095d 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,96 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Kernel application.</p>
+<section><title>Kernel 2.14</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ os:find_executable can now be fed with the complete name
+ of the executable on Windows and still find it. I.e
+ os:find_executable("werl.exe") will work as
+ os:find_executable("werl").</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-3626</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The shell's line editing has been improved to more
+ resemble the behaviour of readline and other shells.
+ (Thanks to Dave Peticolas)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8635</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Under certain circumstances the net kernel could hang.
+ (Thanks to Scott Lystig Fritchie.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8643 Aux Id: seq11584 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The kernel DNS resolver was leaking one or two ports if
+ the DNS reply could not be parsed or if the resolver(s)
+ caused noconnection type errors. Bug now fixed. A DNS
+ specification borderline truncated reply triggering the
+ port leakage bug has also been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8652</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>A bug introduced in kernel-2.13.5.3 has been
+ fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8686 Aux Id: OTP-8643, seq11584 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>As of this version, the global name server no longer
+ supports nodes running Erlang/OTP R11B.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8527</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The file module's functions write,read and read_line now
+ handles named io_servers like 'standard_io' and
+ 'standard_error' correctly.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8611</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The functions file:advise/4 and file:datasync/1 have been
+ added. (Thanks to Filipe David Manana.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8637</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When exchanging groups between nodes <c>pg2</c> did
+ not remove duplicated members. This bug was introduced in
+ R13B03 (kernel-2.13.4).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8653</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ There is a new option 'exclusive' to file:open/2 that
+ uses the OS O_EXCL flag where supported to open the file
+ in exclusive mode.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8670</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Kernel 2.13.5.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/observer/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/observer/doc/src/notes.xml
index 48c7c21363..3d7c4fa269 100644
--- a/lib/observer/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/observer/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,21 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Observer
application.</p>
+<section><title>Observer 0.9.8.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The test suite has been updated for R14A.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8708</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Observer 0.9.8.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/parsetools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/parsetools/doc/src/notes.xml
index 8a6f2c2714..63c37bc27d 100644
--- a/lib/parsetools/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/parsetools/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,28 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Parsetools application.</p>
+<section><title>Parsetools 2.0.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Yecc failed to report reduce/reduce conflicts where
+ one of the reductions involved the root symbol. This bug
+ has been fixed. (Thanks to Manolis Papadakis.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8483</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>A bug introduced in Parsetools 1.4.4 (R12B-2) has been
+ fixed. (Thanks to Manolis Papadakis.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8486</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Parsetools 2.0.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/runtime_tools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/runtime_tools/doc/src/notes.xml
index 9eb13727c7..e1f954dda7 100644
--- a/lib/runtime_tools/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/runtime_tools/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,21 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Runtime_Tools
application.</p>
+<section><title>Runtime_Tools 1.8.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Miscellaneous updates.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8705</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Runtime_Tools 1.8.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml
index 28a3719d38..23d1e8b7de 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,283 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the STDLIB application.</p>
+<section><title>STDLIB 1.17</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>The Erlang code preprocessor (<c>epp</c>) sent extra
+ messages on the form <c>{eof,Location}</c> to the client
+ when parsing the <c>file</c> attribute. This bug,
+ introduced in R11B, has been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8470</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The abstract type 'fun' could not be printed by the
+ Erlang pretty printer (<c>erl_pp</c>). This bug has been
+ fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8473</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The function <c>erl_scan:reserved_word/1</c> no longer
+ returns <c>true</c> when given the word <c>spec</c>. This
+ bug was introduced in STDLIB-1.15.3 (R12B-3).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8567</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The documentation of <c>lists:keysort/2</c> states
+ that the sort is stable.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8628 Aux Id: seq11576 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The shell's line editing has been improved to more
+ resemble the behaviour of readline and other shells.
+ (Thanks to Dave Peticolas)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8635</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The Erlang code preprocessor (<c>epp</c>) did not
+ correctly handle premature end-of-input when defining
+ macros. This bug, introduced in STDLIB 1.16, has been
+ fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8665 Aux Id: OTP-7810 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The module binary from EEP31 (and EEP9) is implemented.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8217</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The erlang pretty printer (<c>erl_pp</c>) no longer
+ quotes atoms in types.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8501</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The Erlang code preprocessor (<c>epp</c>) now
+ considers records with no fields as typed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8503</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Added function <c>zip:foldl/3</c> to iterate over zip
+ archives.</p>
+ <p>
+ Added functions to create and extract escripts. See
+ <c>escript:create/2</c> and <c>escript:extract/2</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ The undocumented function <c>escript:foldl/3</c> has been
+ removed. The same functionality can be achieved with the
+ more flexible functions <c>escript:extract/2</c> and
+ <c>zip:foldl/3</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Record fields has been annotated with type info. Source
+ files as been adapted to fit within 80 chars and trailing
+ whitespace has been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8521</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The Erlang parser no longer duplicates the singleton
+ type <c>undefined</c> in the type of record fields
+ without initial value.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8522</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>A regular expression with many levels of parenthesis
+ could cause a buffer overflow. That has been corrected.
+ (Thanks to Michael Santos.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8539</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When defining macros the closing right parenthesis
+ before the dot is now mandatory.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8562</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Some properties of a compiled re pattern are defined to
+ allow for guard tests.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8577</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Local and imported functions now override the
+ auto-imported BIFs when the names clash. The pre R14
+ behaviour was that auto-imported BIFs would override
+ local functions. To avoid that old programs change
+ behaviour, the following will generate an error:</p>
+ <list><item><p>Doing a call without explicit module name
+ to a local function having a name clashing with the name
+ of an auto-imported BIF that was present (and
+ auto-imported) before OTP R14A</p></item>
+ <item><p>Explicitly importing a function having a name
+ clashing with the name of an autoimported BIF that was
+ present (and autoimported) before OTP R14A</p></item>
+ <item><p>Using any form of the old compiler directive
+ <c>nowarn_bif_clash</c></p></item> </list> <p>If the BIF
+ was added or auto-imported in OTP R14A or later,
+ overriding it with an import or a local function will
+ only result in a warning,</p> <p>To resolve clashes, you
+ can either use the explicit module name <c>erlang</c> to
+ call the BIF, or you can remove the auto-import of that
+ specific BIF by using the new compiler directive
+ <c>-compile({no_auto_import,[F/A]}).</c>, which makes all
+ calls to the local or imported function without explicit
+ module name pass without warnings or errors.</p> <p>The
+ change makes it possible to add auto-imported BIFs
+ without breaking or silently changing old code in the
+ future. However some current code ingeniously utilizing
+ the old behaviour or the <c>nowarn_bif_clash</c> compiler
+ directive, might need changing to be accepted by the
+ compiler.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8579</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The undocumented, unsupport, and deprecated function
+ <c>lists:flat_length/1</c> has been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8584</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A bug in re that could cause certain regular expression
+ matches never to terminate is corrected. (Thanks to
+ Michael Santos and Gordon Guthrie.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8589</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Nested records can now be accessed without
+ parenthesis. See the Reference Manual for examples.
+ (Thanks to YAMASHINA Hio and Tuncer Ayaz.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8597</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>receive</c> statements that can only read out a
+ newly created reference are now specially optimized so
+ that it will execute in constant time regardless of the
+ number of messages in the receive queue for the process.
+ That optimization will benefit calls to
+ <c>gen_server:call()</c>. (See <c>gen:do_call/4</c> for
+ an example of a receive statement that will be
+ optimized.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8623</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The beam_lib:cmp/2 function now compares BEAM files in
+ stricter way. The BEAM files will be considered different
+ if there are any changes except in the compilation
+ information ("CInf") chunk. beam_lib:cmp/2 used to ignore
+ differences in the debug information (significant for
+ Dialyzer) and other chunks that did not directly change
+ the run-time behavior.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8625</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When a gen_server, gen_fsm process, or gen_event
+ terminates abnormally, sometimes the text representation
+ of the process state can occupy many lines of the error
+ log, depending on the definition of the state term. A
+ mechanism to trim out parts of the state from the log has
+ been added (using a format_status/2 callback). See the
+ documentation.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8630</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Calling <c>sys:get_status()</c> for processes that have
+ globally registered names that were not atoms would cause
+ a crash. Corrected. (Thanks to Steve Vinoski.)</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8656</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The Erlang scanner has been augmented with two new
+ tokens: <c>..</c> and <c>...</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8657</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Expressions evaluating to integers can now be used in
+ types and function specifications where hitherto only
+ integers were allowed ("Erlang_Integer").</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8664</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The compiler optimizes record operations better.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8668</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The recently added BIFs erlang:min/2, erlang:max/2 and
+ erlang:port_command/3 are now auto-imported (as they were
+ originally intended to be). Due to the recent compiler
+ change (OTP-8579), the only impact on old code defining
+ it's own min/2, max/2 or port_command/3 functions will be
+ a warning, the local functions will still be used. The
+ warning can be removed by using
+ -compile({no_auto_import,[min/2,max/2,port_command/3]}).
+ in the source file.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8669 Aux Id: OTP-8579 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Now, binary_to_term/2 is auto-imported. This will cause a
+ compile warning if and only if a module has got a local
+ function with that name.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8671</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The predefined builtin type tid() has been removed.
+ Instead, ets:tid() should be used.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8687</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>STDLIB 1.16.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/syntax_tools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/syntax_tools/doc/src/notes.xml
index a3b842b50b..fca93a27d9 100644
--- a/lib/syntax_tools/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/syntax_tools/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,21 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Syntax_Tools
application.</p>
+<section><title>Syntax_Tools 1.6.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Minor changes and clean-ups.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8709</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Syntax_Tools 1.6.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml
index b6e0a6cefa..dae071311c 100644
--- a/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,70 @@
<file>notes.xml</file>
</header>
+<section><title>Test_Server 3.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Returning {fail,Reason} from the framework end_tc
+ function was not handled properly by Test Server for all
+ test suite functions.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8492 Aux Id: seq11502 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ If the framework end_tc function would hang and get
+ aborted by Test Server, there was no indication of
+ failure in the logs. This has been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8682 Aux Id: seq11504 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ It is now possible for the Test Server framework end_tc
+ function to change the status of the test case from ok or
+ auto-skipped to failed by returning {fail,Reason}.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8495 Aux Id: seq11502 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Test Server will now call the end_per_testcase/2 function
+ even if the test case has been terminated explicitly
+ (with abort_current_testcase/1), or after a timetrap
+ timeout. Under these circumstances the return value of
+ end_per_testcase is completely ignored. Therefore the
+ function will not be able to change the reason for test
+ case termination by returning {fail,Reason}, nor will it
+ be able to save data with {save_config,Data}.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8500 Aux Id: seq11521 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Previously, a repeat property of a test case group
+ specified the number of times the group should be
+ repeated after the main test run. I.e. {repeat,N} would
+ case the group to execute 1+N times. To be consistent
+ with the behaviour of the run_test repeat option, this
+ has been changed. N now specifies the absolute number of
+ executions instead.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8689 Aux Id: seq11502 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Test_Server 3.3.6</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml
index e7d1ae150c..b9e1ef2959 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,76 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Tools application.</p>
+<section><title>Tools 2.6.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>A race condition affecting Cover has been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8469</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Emacs improvements:</p>
+ <p>
+ Fixed emacs-mode installation problems.</p>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a couple of -spec and -type indentation and
+ font-lock problems.</p>
+ <p>
+ Fixed error messages on emacs-21.</p>
+ <p>
+ Magnus Henoch fixed several issues.</p>
+ <p>
+ Ralf Doering, Klas Johansson and Chris Bernard
+ contributed various emacs-eunit improvements.</p>
+ <p>
+ Klas Johansson and Dave Peticolas added emacs-flymake
+ support.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8530</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Xref has been updated to use the <c>re</c> module
+ instead of the deprecated <c>regexp</c> module.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8472</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When given the option <c>{builtins,true}</c> Xref now
+ adds calls to operators.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8647</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>eprof</c> has been reimplemented with support in
+ the Erlang virtual machine and is now both faster (i.e.
+ slows down the code being measured less) and scales much
+ better. In measurements we saw speed-ups compared to the
+ old eprof ranging from 6 times (for sequential code that
+ only uses one scheduler/core) up to 84 times (for
+ parallel code that uses 8 cores).</p>
+ <p>Note: The API for the <c>eprof</c> has been cleaned up
+ and extended. See the documentation.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8706</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Tools 2.6.5.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
diff --git a/lib/tv/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/tv/doc/src/notes.xml
index 62fab2f0f1..43b650dd29 100644
--- a/lib/tv/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/tv/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2010</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
-
+
Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
under the License.
-
+
</legalnotice>
<title>TV Release Notes</title>
@@ -30,6 +30,21 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the TV application.</p>
+<section><title>TV 2.1.4.5</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Warnings due to new autoimported BIFs removed</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8674 Aux Id: OTP-8579 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>TV 2.1.4.4</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
diff --git a/lib/webtool/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/webtool/doc/src/notes.xml
index dc325b5b61..5179f37db2 100644
--- a/lib/webtool/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/webtool/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,23 @@
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Webtool
application.</p>
+<section><title>WebTool 0.8.7</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Up until now Netscape has been the default web browser on
+ Unix/Linux. Webtool has now been updated to start Firefox
+ as default browser instead.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-8651 Aux Id: OTP-8650 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>WebTool 0.8.6</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
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