diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc/src/notes.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/notes.xml | 129 |
1 files changed, 122 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml index 11206d43e7..08f6732036 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ <list> <item> <p> - Fixed a VM crash that occured in a garbage collection of + Fixed a VM crash that occurred in a garbage collection of a process when it had received binaries. This bug was introduced in ERTS version 8.0 (OTP 19.0).</p> <p> @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ <list> <item> <p> - Fixed a VM crash that occured in garbage collection of a + Fixed a VM crash that occurred in garbage collection of a process when it had received maps over the distribution. This bug was introduced in ERTS version 8.0 (OTP 19.0).</p> <p> @@ -1673,6 +1673,96 @@ </section> +<section><title>Erts 7.3.1.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + A bug has been fixed where if erlang was started +B on a + unix platform it would be killed by a SIGUSR2 signal when + creating a crash dump.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13425 Aux Id: ERL-94 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Calls to <c>erl_drv_send_term()</c> or + <c>erl_drv_output_term()</c> from a non-scheduler thread + while the corresponding port was invalid caused the + emulator to enter an inconsistent state which eventually + caused an emulator crash.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13866</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Driver and NIF operations accessing processes or ports + could cause an emulator crash when used from + non-scheduler threads. Those operations are:</p> <list> + <item><c>erl_drv_send_term()</c></item> + <item><c>driver_send_term()</c></item> + <item><c>erl_drv_output_term()</c></item> + <item><c>driver_output_term()</c></item> + <item><c>enif_send()</c></item> + <item><c>enif_port_command()</c></item> </list> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13869</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug in <c>binary_to_term</c> for binaries created by + <c>term_to_binary </c> with option <c>compressed</c>. The + bug can cause <c>badarg</c> exception for a valid binary + when Erlang VM is linked against a <c>zlib</c> library of + version 1.2.9 or newer. Bug exists since OTP 17.0.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14159 Aux Id: ERL-340 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erts 7.3.1.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a race that could cause a lost wakeup of a process + that timed out in a <c>receive ... after</c>. This bug + was introduced in ERTS version 7.0.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13798 Aux Id: OTP-11997 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed segfault after writing an erl crash dump.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13799</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erts 7.3.1.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fix scheduler deadlock bug in <c>ets:update_counter/4</c> + when key is not found and inserting the default object + causes the table to grow.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13731 Aux Id: ERL-188 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Erts 7.3.1</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> @@ -1924,6 +2014,31 @@ </section> +<section><title>Erts 7.2.1.1</title> + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Introduced new statistics functionality in order to + more efficiently retrieve information about run able and + active processes and ports. For more information see:</p> + <list> <item><seealso + marker="erlang#statistics_total_run_queue_lengths"><c>statistics(total_run_queue_lengths)</c></seealso></item> + <item><seealso + marker="erlang#statistics_run_queue_lengths"><c>statistics(run_queue_lengths)</c></seealso></item> + <item><seealso + marker="erlang#statistics_total_active_tasks"><c>statistics(total_active_tasks)</c></seealso></item> + <item><seealso + marker="erlang#statistics_active_tasks"><c>statistics(active_tasks)</c></seealso></item> + </list> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13201</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Erts 7.2.1</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> @@ -5963,7 +6078,7 @@ dependent, so applications aiming to be portable should consider using <c>{ipv6_v6only,true}</c> when creating an <c>inet6</c> listening/destination socket, and if - neccesary also create an <c>inet</c> socket on the same + necessary also create an <c>inet</c> socket on the same port for IPv4 traffic. See the documentation.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-8928 Aux Id: kunagi-193 [104] </p> @@ -6344,7 +6459,7 @@ This change of default value will reduce lock contention on ETS tables using the <c>read_concurrency</c> option at the expense of memory consumption when the amount of - schedulers and logical processors are beween 8 and 64. + schedulers and logical processors are between 8 and 64. For more information, see documentation of the <c>+rg</c> command line argument of <c>erl(1)</c>.</p> <p> @@ -7321,7 +7436,7 @@ <p> For the subsection about process_flag(save_calls, N) there's an unrelated paragraph about process priorities - which was copied from the preceeding subsection regarding + which was copied from the preceding subsection regarding process_flag(priority, Level). (Thanks to Filipe David Manana)</p> <p> @@ -8536,7 +8651,7 @@ <item> <p> Wx on MacOS X generated complains on stderr about certain - cocoa functions not beeing called from the "Main thread". + cocoa functions not being called from the "Main thread". This is now corrected.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-9081</p> @@ -9527,7 +9642,7 @@ </item> <item> <p>The <c>empd</c> program could loop and consume 100% - CPU time if an unexpected error ocurred in + CPU time if an unexpected error occurred 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> |