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<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -31,6 +31,743 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the ERTS application.</p>
+<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>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>process_info(Pid, last_calls)</c> did not work for
+ <c>Pid /= self()</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13418</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Make sure to create a crash dump when running out of
+ memory. This was accidentally removed in the erts-7.3
+ release.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13419</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Schedulers could be woken by a premature timeout on
+ Linux. This premature wakeup was however harmless.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13420</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A process communicating with a port via one of the
+ <c>erlang:port_*</c> BIFs could potentially end up in an
+ inconsistent state if the port terminated during the
+ communication. When this occurred the process could later
+ block in a <c>receive</c> even though it had messages
+ matching in its message queue.</p>
+ <p>
+ This bug was introduced in erts version 5.10 (OTP R16A).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13424 Aux Id: OTP-10336 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The reference count of a process structure could under
+ rare circumstances be erroneously managed. When this
+ happened invalid memory accesses occurred.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13446</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix race between <c>process_flag(trap_exit,true)</c> and
+ a received exit signal.</p>
+ <p>
+ A process could terminate due to exit signal even though
+ <c>process_flag(trap_exit,true)</c> had returned. A very
+ specific timing between call to <c>process_flag/2</c> and
+ exit signal from another scheduler was required for this
+ to happen.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13452</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 7.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The '-path' flag to 'erl' has been documented. This flag
+ replaces the path specified in the boot script. It has
+ always existed, but was earlier only documented in SASL
+ (script).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13060</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The <c>call_time</c> tracing functionality internally
+ used a time based on OS system time in order to measure
+ call time which could cause erroneous results if OS
+ system time was changed during tracing.</p>
+ <p>
+ This functionality now use Erlang monotonic time in order
+ to measure time. Besides fixing the erroneous results due
+ to OS system time being used, the results are often also
+ better since Erlang monotonic time often has better
+ accuracy and precision.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13216</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix behaviour of -delay_write command line switch of
+ epmd, which is used for debugging - in some cases epmd
+ was sleeping twice the requested amount of time.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13220</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix race between timeout and exit signal that could cause
+ a process to ignore the exit signal and continue
+ execution. Bug exist since OTP 18.0.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13245</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in <c>erlang:halt/1,2</c> for large exit status
+ values, causing either <c>badarg</c> (on 32-bit) or exit
+ with a crash dump and/or core dump (on 64-bit). Make
+ <c>erlang:halt/1,2</c> tolerate any non negative integer
+ as exit status and truncate high order bits if the OS
+ does not support it.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13251 Aux Id: ERL-49 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <seealso
+ marker="kernel:gen_tcp#accept/2"><c>gen_tcp:accept/2</c></seealso>
+ was not <seealso
+ marker="erts:time_correction#Time_Warp_Safe_Code">time
+ warp safe</seealso>. This since it used the same time as
+ returned by <seealso
+ marker="erts:erlang#now/0"><c>erlang:now/0</c></seealso>
+ when calculating timeout. This has now been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13254 Aux Id: OTP-11997, OTP-13222 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix faulty error handling when writing to a compressed
+ file.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13270</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix sendfile usage for large files on FreeBSD</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13271</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug that could cause
+ <c>process_info(P,current_location)</c> to crash emulator
+ for hipe compiled modules.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13282 Aux Id: ERL-79 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Out of memory errors have been changed to cause an exit
+ instead of abort.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13292</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When calling <c>garbage_collect/[1,2]</c> or
+ <c>check_process_code/[2,3]</c> from a process with a
+ higher priority than the priority of the process operated
+ on, the run queues could end up in an inconsistent state.
+ This bug has now been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13298 Aux Id: OTP-11388 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A workaround for an issue with older gcc versions (less
+ than 5) and inline assembly on 32-bit x86 caused an
+ emulator crash when it had been compiled with a newer gcc
+ version. An improved <c>configure</c> test, run when
+ building OTP, now detects whether the workaround should
+ be used or not.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13326 Aux Id: ERL-80 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <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>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Time warp safety improvements.</p>
+ <p>
+ Introduced the options <c>monotonic_timestamp</c>, and
+ <c>strict_monotonic_timestamp</c> to the trace,
+ sequential trace, and system profile functionality. This
+ since the already existing <c>timestamp</c> option is not
+ time warp safe.</p>
+ <p>
+ Introduced the option <c>safe_fixed_monotonic_time</c> to
+ <c>ets:info/2</c> and <c>dets:info/2</c>. This since the
+ already existing <c>safe_fixed</c> option is not time
+ warp safe.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13222 Aux Id: OTP-11997 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a register race where down nodes goes undetected in
+ epmd</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13301</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Improved the gcc inline assembly implementing double word
+ atomic compare and exchange on x86/x86_64 so that it also
+ can be used when compiling with clang.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13336</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ An optimization preventing a long wait for a scheduler
+ thread looking up information about a process executing
+ on another scheduler thread had unintentionally been lost
+ in erts-5.10 (OTP R16A). This optimization has now been
+ reintroduced.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13365 Aux Id: OTP-9892 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</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>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Revert "Fix erroneous splitting of emulator path"</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13202</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix HiPE enabled emulator for FreeBSD.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13204 Aux Id: pr926 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 7.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Small documentation fixes</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13017</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix memory corruption bug caused by disabling
+ distribution and then re-enable distribution with a node
+ name that has previously been used by a remote node.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13076 Aux Id: seq12959 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Renamed variables with name bool as Visual Studio 2015
+ now treats this is a keyword.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13079</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>erl_prim_loader</c> has not supported custom
+ loaders for several releases. In the documentation for
+ <c>erl_prim_loader</c>, all references to custom loaders
+ have now been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13102</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed compilation of erts together with libc versions
+ that do not define __uint32_t.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13105</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ erl -make now returns non-zero exit codes on failure</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13107</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix crash on init:restart in embedded mode caused by
+ on_load handler process not being relaunched leading to
+ load failure for modules such as crypto and asn1rt_nif
+ that need it to be present for correct NIF loading.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13115</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix maps decode in erlang:binary_to_term/1</p>
+ <p>Decoding a term with a large (HAMT) map in an small
+ (FLAT) map could cause a critical error if the external
+ format was not produced by beam.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13125</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix very rare bug in GC when big maps with a lot of hash
+ collisions from a remote node are waiting in inner
+ message queue.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13146</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a bug that could cause a crash dump to become
+ almost empty.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13150</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p> Updated the xmllint target to just check the xml
+ files with real documentation content.<br/> Corrected
+ some errors and added some missing target in the DTD's.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13026</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add function enif_getenv to read OS environment variables
+ in a portable way from NIFs.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13147</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 7.1</title>
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in ETS that could cause stray objects marked for
+ deletion to occasionally be missed by the cleanup done by
+ <c>safe_fixtable(_,false)</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12870</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed VM crash that could occur if a trace port was
+ linked to a process, and the trace port terminated
+ abnormally while handling a trace message. This bug has
+ always existed in the runtime system with SMP support.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12901</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Instead of aborting, the vm now creates a crash dump when
+ a system process is terminated.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12934</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a rare emulator dead lock that occurred when
+ erlang:process_flag(priority,...) was called by a process
+ that was also scheduled for an internal system activity.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12943</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The runtime system on various posix platforms (except for
+ Linux and Solaris) could crash when large amounts of
+ file-descriptors were in use.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12954</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A beam file compiled by hipe for an incompatible runtime
+ system was sometimes not rejected by the loader, which
+ could lead to vm crash. This fix will also allow the same
+ hipe compiler to be used by both normal and debug-built
+ vm.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12962</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in <c>maps:merge/2</c> when called by hipe
+ compiled code that could cause vm crash. Bug exists since
+ erts-7.0 (OTP 18.0).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12965</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When tracing with <c>process_dump</c> option, the VM
+ could abort if there was an ongoing binary match
+ somewhere in the call stack of the traced process.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12968</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed possible output deadlock in tty driver when hitting
+ "CTRL-C" in a non-smp emulator shell on unix.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12987 Aux Id: Seq12947 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix <c>binary_to_integer</c> to throw badarg for "+" and
+ "-" similar to <c>list_to_integer</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12988</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Suppress warning of unused argument when using macro
+ enif_make_pid.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12989</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Changed default clock source used for OS system time on
+ MacOS X to <c>gettimeofday()</c> in order to improve
+ performance. The system can be configured during build to
+ use the previously used higher resolution clock source by
+ passing the switch <seealso
+ marker="doc/installation_guide:INSTALL#Advanced-configuration-and-build-of-ErlangOTP_Configuring"><c>--with-clock-resolution=high</c></seealso>
+ when configuring the build.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12945 Aux Id: OTP-12892 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Added the <c>configure</c> option <seealso
+ marker="doc/installation_guide:INSTALL#Advanced-configuration-and-build-of-ErlangOTP_Configuring"><c>--disable-saved-compile-time</c></seealso>
+ which disables saving of compile date and time in the
+ emulator binary.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12971</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 7.0.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a binary memory leak when printing to shell using
+ the tty driver (i.e. not -oldshell).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12941</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a bug where the standard error port sometimes crashes
+ with eagain as the reason.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12942</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When tracing with <c>process_dump</c> option, the VM
+ could abort if there was an ongoing binary match
+ somewhere in the call stack of the traced process./</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12968</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 7.0.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A process could end up in an inconsistent half exited
+ state in the runtime system without SMP support. This
+ could occur if the processes was traced by a port that it
+ also was linked to, and the port terminated abnormally
+ while handling a trace message for the process.</p>
+ <p>
+ This bug has always existed in the runtime system without
+ SMP support, but never in the runtime system with SMP
+ support.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12889 Aux Id: seq12885 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Removed unnecessary copying of data when retrieving
+ corrected Erlang monotonic time.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12894</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Changed default OS monotonic clock source chosen at build
+ time. This in order to improve performance. The behavior
+ will now on most systems be that (both OS and Erlang)
+ monotonic time stops when the system is suspended.</p>
+ <p>
+ If you prefer that monotonic time elapse during suspend
+ of the machine, you can pass the command line argument
+ <c>--enable-prefer-elapsed-monotonic-time-during-suspend</c>
+ to <c>configure</c> when building Erlang/OTP. The
+ configuration stage will try to find such a clock source,
+ but might not be able to find it. Note that there might
+ be a performance penalty associated with such a clock
+ source.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12895</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>erlang:system_info(end_time)</c> returned a faulty
+ value on 32-bit architectures.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12896</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The <c>configure</c> command line argument
+ <c>--enable-gettimeofday-as-os-system-time</c> has been
+ added which force usage of <c>gettimeofday()</c> for OS
+ system time. This will improve performance of
+ <c>os:system_time()</c> and <c>os:timestamp()</c> on
+ MacOS X, at the expense of worse accuracy, resolution and
+ precision of Erlang monotonic time, Erlang system time,
+ and OS system time.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12892</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 7.0.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a rare hanging of the VM seen to happen just after
+ emulator start. Bug exists since R14.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12859 Aux Id: seq12882 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Erts 7.0</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
@@ -462,19 +1199,20 @@
</item>
<item>
<p>
- Use persistent hashmaps for large Maps <p>Maps will use a
+ Use persistent hashmaps for large Maps</p>
+ <p>Maps will use a
persistent hashmap implementation when the number of
pairs in a Map becomes sufficiently large. The change
will occur when a Map reaches 33 pairs in size but this
- limit might change in the future.</p></p>
- <p>The most significant impact for the user by this
+ limit might change in the future.</p>
+ <p>The most significant impact for the user by this
change is speed, and to a lesser degree memory
consumption and introspection of Maps. Memory consumption
size is probalistic but lesser than <c>gb_trees</c> or
<c>dict</c> for instance. Any other impacts will be
transparent for the user except for the following
changes.</p>
- <p>Semantics of Maps have changed in two incompatible
+ <p>Semantics of Maps have changed in two incompatible
ways compared to the experimental implementation in OTP
17:</p> <list> <item>Hashing of maps is done different by
<c>erlang:phash2/1,2</c>, <c>erlang:phash/1</c> and
@@ -734,6 +1472,42 @@
</section>
+<section><title>Erts 6.4.1.5</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a bug that could cause a crash dump to become
+ almost empty.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13150</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 6.4.1.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The 'raw' socket option could not be used multiple times
+ in one call to any e.g gen_tcp function because only one
+ of the occurrences were used. This bug has been fixed,
+ and also a small bug concerning propagating error codes
+ from within inet:setopts/2.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11482 Aux Id: seq12872 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+
<section><title>Erts 6.4.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
@@ -1122,7 +1896,7 @@
<p>
Improved support for atomic memory operations provided by
the <url
- href="https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/"><c>libatomic_ops</c></url>
+ href="https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/">libatomic_ops</url>
library. Most importantly support for use of native
double word atomics when implemented by
<c>libatomic_ops</c> (for example, implemented for ARM).</p>
@@ -2089,22 +2863,28 @@
<p>
EEP43: New data type - Maps</p>
<p>
- With Maps you may for instance: <taglist> <item><c>M0 =
- #{ a =&gt; 1, b =&gt; 2}, % create
- associations</c></item> <item><c>M1 = M0#{ a := 10 }, %
- update values</c></item> <item><c>M2 = M1#{ "hi" =&gt;
- "hello"}, % add new associations</c></item> <item><c>#{
- "hi" := V1, a := V2, b := V3} = M2. % match keys with
- values</c></item> </taglist></p>
+ With Maps you may for instance:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag/> <item><c>M0 = #{ a =&gt; 1, b =&gt; 2}, % create
+ associations</c></item>
+ <tag/><item><c>M1 = M0#{ a := 10 }, % update values</c></item>
+ <tag/><item><c>M2 = M1#{ "hi" =&gt;
+ "hello"}, % add new associations</c></item>
+ <tag/><item><c>#{ "hi" := V1, a := V2, b := V3} = M2.
+ % match keys with values</c></item>
+ </taglist>
<p>
For information on how to use Maps please see Map Expressions in the
<seealso marker="doc/reference_manual:expressions#map_expressions">
Reference Manual</seealso>.</p>
<p>
The current implementation is without the following
- features: <taglist> <item>No variable keys</item>
- <item>No single value access</item> <item>No map
- comprehensions</item> </taglist></p>
+ features:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag/><item>No variable keys</item>
+ <tag/><item>No single value access</item>
+ <tag/><item>No map comprehensions</item>
+ </taglist>
<p>
Note that Maps is <em>experimental</em> during OTP 17.0.</p>
<p>
@@ -4264,8 +5044,7 @@
<p>
Fix erl_prim_loader errors in handling of primary
archive. The following errors have been corrected:</p>
- <p>
- <list> <item> If primary archive was named "xxx", then a
+ <list> <item> If primary archive was named "xxx", then a
file in the same directory named "xxxyyy" would be
interpreted as a file named "yyy" inside the archive.
</item> <item> erl_prim_loader did not correctly create
@@ -4280,7 +5059,8 @@
erl_prim_loader:list_dir/1 would sometimes return an
empty string inside the file list. This was a virtual
element representing the top directory of the archive.
- This has been removed. </item> </list></p>
+ This has been removed. </item>
+ </list>
<p>
Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz and Shunichi Shinohara for
reporting and co-authoring corrections.</p>
@@ -6723,12 +7503,12 @@
Own Id: OTP-8726 Aux Id: seq11617 </p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Fix libm linking with --as-needed flag
+ <p>Fix libm linking with --as-needed flag</p>
<p>
When building with "--as-needed" linker flags on Linux
the build will fail. This has now been fixed.</p>
<p>
- (Thanks to Christian Faulhammer)</p></p>
+ (Thanks to Christian Faulhammer)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8728</p>
</item>