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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml index cdb72b2b98..e996d3e8e3 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -30,6 +30,179 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the ERTS application.</p> +<section><title>Erts 5.9.3.1</title> + + <section><title>Known Bugs and Problems</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Create an erl_crash.dump if no heart exists and no + ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS is set (behaviour changed).</p> + <p> + Don't create an erl_crash.dump if heart do exists and no + ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS is set (behaviour not changed).</p> + <p> + This changes the behaviour back to the R15B02 default + considering if a beam was running with no heart.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10602</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erts 5.9.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fix linking in OpenBSD. (Thanks to Matthew Dempsky)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10395</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug causing fallback atomics to be used even though + healthy gcc atomics or libatomic_ops was detected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10418</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Ensure 'erl_crash.dump' when asked for it. This will + change erl_crash.dump behaviour.</p> + <p> + * Not setting ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS will now terminate + beam immediately on a crash without writing a crash dump + file.</p> + <p> + * Setting ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS to 0 will also terminate + beam immediately on a crash without writing a crash dump + file, i.e. same as not setting ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS + environment variable.</p> + <p> + * Setting ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS to a negative value will + let the beam wait indefinitely on the crash dump file + being written.</p> + <p> + * Setting ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS to a positive value will + let the beam wait that many seconds on the crash dump + file being written.</p> + <p> + A positive value will set an alarm/timeout for restart + both in beam and in heart if heart is running.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10422 Aux Id: kunagi-250 [161] </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug where MSVRT100.dll was not included in the + windows installer.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10481</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>In the expression + <c><<Bin/binary,...>></c>, if <c>Bin</c> was + a bitstring with a size not a multiple of 8, either no + exception was generated or an incorrect exception was + generated. (Thanks to Adam Rutkowski for reporting this + bug.)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10524</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The runtime system could crash while scheduling a port + task. The port task was scheduled either due to an + external I/O event being triggered, a driver timeout + being triggered, or data being sent over a distribution + channel.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10556</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + <c>erlang:memory(ets)</c> erroneously included the size + of each ETS-table main structure twice.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10558</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix compile error in generated file hipe_amd64_bifs.S for + Solaris.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10577</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + A faulty spec for process_info/2 could cause false + dialyzer warnings. The spec is corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10584</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + In very rare cases, the VM could crash if a garbage + collector was called while executing an appending bit + syntax instruction. The symptom was a core when + reallocating memory in the function erts_bs_append. The + garbage collector bug is now corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10590</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Improve support for building and testing in embedded ppc + environments.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10265 Aux Id: kunagi-159 + [daf97f67-5724-4812-a5b6-7e86990133d2-1] </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Due to a race condition on Windows, sometimes when + printing to standard output and then immediately + terminating erlang all data would not be printed. The + emulator now waits for all data to be printed before + exiting.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10325 Aux Id: kunagi-166 + [dd72d0e2-3e76-4a51-8b56-7564e24eecae] </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The frequency with which sleeping schedulers are woken + due to outstanding memory deallocation jobs has been + reduced.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10476 Aux Id: OTP-10162 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Clearer warnings about the dangers of misuse of <seealso + marker="erl_nif#WARNING">native functions</seealso> and + <seealso marker="erl_driver#WARNING">drivers</seealso> + have been added to the documentation.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-10557</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Erts 5.9.2</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> |