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diff --git a/whats/cooking/2010/12/03.txt b/whats/cooking/2010/12/03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0dccc50bdb --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2010/12/03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +From - Fri Dec 3 14:17:43 2010 +Date: Fri Dec 3 14:17:43 2010 +To: erlang patches <[email protected]> +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2010-12-03) +X-dev-at: 74ec1253e1a89f0bb266831f73716a24c0798dc1 + +The next release will be R14B01, expected to be released +December 8. + +Feature branches sent in from now on are unlikely to be +included in R14B01. Bug fixes may still make it, depending +on the application, the severity of the bug, and how unlikely +the bug fix is to break something. + +We will try to review and include into the R14B01 release +some more of the branches currently in 'pu'. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Graduated] + +* bw/gitignore (otp) (2010-10-05) 1 commit + + Add win32 specific build artifacts to .gitignore (834cd98) + +* bw/win32-file-linking (erts) (2010-10-04) 1 commit + + Add Win32 support for hard and symbolic file system links (1f6d7c8) + +* bw/win32-laa (erts) (2010-10-06) 1 commit + + Added win32 large address aware link option (8bb6f48) + +* dc/update-INSTALL-WIN32.md (otp) (2010-09-19) 1 commit + + Doc update to latest dependencies & how to compile with free VS2008 Express (8e8061c) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* dk/agent-capabilities (snmp) (2010-12-01) 1 commit + - AGENT-CAPABILITIES handling added to SNMP mib compiler (b149b95) + +* fm/posix-fallocate (erts, kernel) (2010-12-01) 1 commit + - Added file:allocate/3. This function allocates space for a file. It only has effect in POSIX platforms that implement the posix_fallocate system call. (ea3dfb9) + +* ms/epmd-local-access-check (erts) (2010-11-24) 1 commit + - epmd: include host address in local access check (5b68030) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Stalled] + +* jn/gen_stream (stdlib) (2010-09-05) 5 commits + - Use erlang:process_info(Pid, links) to determine if gen_stream managed worker processes are leaked (b2386df) + - Move gen_stream internal process test to after termination of gen_stream parent (f1d8a97) + - Add calls to code loader in every test to verify code loader still running (ac6cbba) + - Track gen_stream processes directly for accurate test results (38a4083) + - Patch dev to reproduce jn/gen_stream (7694a74) + + . Add new gen_stream behaviour for efficiently consuming serial streams (65f3db8) + +This topic branch has a failing test case: + +shell_SUITE:start_restricted_from_shell; + We have now tested with and without this topic branch and when + it is present that test case fails. We consider it proved + to be guilty. The test case does not fail when run standalone + so it seems to be tricky... Also, some of its own test cases + fail sporadicly. + +Action expected from: Topic author. + +* jp/dependencies_makefile (compiler, erts) (2009-12-14) 1 commit + - Add dependencies Makefile generation to erlc(1) and compile(3) (4945add) + +Approved in principle by the OTP Technical Board; now awaits a closer +review of the implementation. + +Action expected from: Björn Gustavsson (the reviewer) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Cooking] + +* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, hipe, kernel) (2010-03-15) 6 commits + - Avoid crash by skipping compilation_SUITE:on_load/1 (8592a02) + - Inline less aggressively for native-code compilation (e699ad4) + - Crudely fix return type for the lists:key{search,find,member}/3 (2b72202) + - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (2712344) + - Disable native code if on_load is used (e8d0ea4) + - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (e25ef8c) + +This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test +cases and is never intended to graduate. + +* bw/efile_exists (erts) (2010-10-07) 1 commit + - prim_file:exists/{1,2} which is lightweight file existence check (7203932) + +* bw/tv-render-fix (tv) (2010-10-06) 1 commit + - tv: Allow table viewer to display refs, ports and small binaries (5eff630) + +* cg/fix-prng (stdlib) (2010-10-06) 1 commit + - Fix a bug in the implementation of the pseudo-random number generator (863ec4d) + +* fm/httpc-upload-body-streaming (inets) (2010-10-05) 2 commits + - httpc: add option to do automatic chunked transfer-encoding (6951ed1) + - httpc: allow streaming of PUT and POST request bodies (f9ec3cb) + +* gc/gen-format-status-improvements (stdlib) (2010-06-12) 1 commit + - Fix format_status bug for unregistered gen_event processes (95ed86f) + +* hw/call-chmod-without-f (asn1, common_test, compiler, cosFileTransfer, crypto, debugger, docbuilder, edoc, erl_interface, erts, et, inets, inviso, kernel, megaco, mnesia, orber, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, snmp, ssl, stdlib, syntax_tools, test_server, tools) (2010-11-15) 1 commit + - Call chmod without the "-f" flag (7ed11a8) + +* hw/epmd-bind-to-address (erts) (2010-11-10) 1 commit + - Allow user to specify the IP address epmd binds to (bcf3b3d) + +* hw/fix-epmd-perror (erts) (2010-11-13) 1 commit + - Fix epmd's dbg_perror() output (b363d7d) + +* jf/run_erl-disable-flow-control (erts) (2010-03-05) 1 commit + - Teach run_erl RUN_ERL_DISABLE_FLOWCNTRL for disabling flow control (d0775cd) + +* km/pool_connect-to-running-nodes (stdlib) (2010-09-02) 1 commit + - Change pool module to attempt to attach to nodes that are already running (a9f4cbc) + +* ks/asn1-dialyzer-fixes (asn1) (2010-11-18) 1 commit + - Shut off some dialyzer warnings (508a6d2) + +* mh/dialyzer-full-path-option (dialyzer) (2010-09-15) 1 commit + - Dialyzer: add --fullpath option for printing full paths in warnings (3703ea6) + +* ml/add-os-pid-to-port-info (erts) (2010-08-19) 1 commit + - Extend erlang:port_info/1,2 to show the OS pid of a spawned process (b2d85bf) + +* pg/des-cfb-functions (crypto) (2010-10-16) 1 commit + - Add DES and Triple DES cipher feedback (CFB) mode functions (2c79ae7) + +* pg/fix-hibernate-with-hipe (erts, otp) (2010-09-27) 1 commit + - Fix several bugs related to hibernate/3 and HiPE (babd761) + +* pg/honor-start-type-in-rel-files (sasl) (2010-06-06) 1 commit + - Honor start type in .rel files when building relup files (7599900) + +* sa/callback-attr (compiler, inets, kernel, otp, stdlib) (2010-06-08) 7 commits + - Add callback specs into 'application' module in kernel (87d4f70) + - Add callback specs to tftp module following internet documentation (2ac8ea7) + - Add callback specs to inets_service module following possibly deprecated comments (58a362d) + - Add '-callback' attributes in stdlib's behaviours (4a64017) + - Update primary bootstrap (d0e761a) + - Automatically generate 'behaviour_info' function from '-callback' attributes (991da40) + - Add '-callback' attribute to language syntax (d5cba37) + +* sb/make-files-like-erlc (tools) (2010-05-18) 1 commit + - Change make:files to behave more like erlc (5e9d051) + +* sg/fix-diskless-booted-relup (sasl) (2010-09-19) 1 commit + - Remove traces of release_handler reading from filesystem when it has Masters list (54cb5df) + +* sv/epmd-check-listen (erts) (2010-07-14) 1 commit + - check return value of epmd server listen() call (c5c8baa) + +* ta/asn1-reporting (asn1) (2010-04-23) 1 commit + - asn1ct: Make formatting of errors and warnings consistent (93face2) + +* ta/ensure-dot-ssh-exists (ssh) (2010-09-02) 1 commit + - ssh: ensure ~/.ssh exists (2c14d90) + +* ta/sendfile (erts, kernel) (2010-09-06) 1 commit + - Implement file:sendfile (c652dda) + +* ts/cover-with-export_all (tools) (2010-09-23) 1 commit + - add user specified compiler options on form reloading (eb02beb) + +* uw/xmerl-expand-simple (xmerl) (2010-10-25) 1 commit + - Track parents when expanding #xmlElement records (9f4c1ee) + |