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diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes.xml index f165dde259..1f95382704 100644 --- a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2004</year><year>2017</year> + <year>2004</year><year>2018</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -31,6 +31,195 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the Erl_interface application.</p> +<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.11.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + <c>erl_interface</c>/<c>ei</c> refused to use node names + with an alive name (the part of the node name preceding + the @ sign) longer than 63 characters and a host name + longer than 64 characters. The total amount of characters + allowed in a node name (alivename@hostname) was thus + limited to 128 characters. These limits applied both to + the own node name as well as node names of other nodes. + Ordinary Erlang nodes limit the node name length to 256 + characters, which meant that you could not communicate + with certain Erlang nodes due to their node name used.</p> + <p> + <c>erl_interface</c>/<c>ei</c> now allow the total amount + of characters in a node name to be up to 256 characters. + These characters may be distributed between alive name + and host name in whatever way needed. That is, the + maximum amount of characters in the alive name may be 254 + and the maximum amount of characters in the host name may + be 254, but in total the node name must not exceed 256 + characters.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15781 Aux Id: ERIERL-356 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.11.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fix handling of Makefile dependencies so that parallel + make works properly.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15757</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.11.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fixed two bugs in the <c>erl_call</c> program. A missing + initialization (introduced in <c>erl_interface-3.11</c>) + which either caused a crash or failure to connect to or + start a node, and an incorrectly calculated timeout which + could cause failure to start an erlang node. These bugs + only caused failures on some platforms.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15676 Aux Id: OTP-15442, ERL-881 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.11</title> + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Support for plugin of a <seealso + marker="ei_connect#ussi">user supplied socket + implementation</seealso> has been added.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15442 Aux Id: ERIERL-258 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.10.4</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Make <c>ei_connect</c> and friends also accept state + <c>ok_simultaneous</c> during handshake, which means the + other node has initiated a connection setup that will be + cancelled in favor of this connection.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15161 Aux Id: ERIERL-191 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed bug in <c>ei_receive_msg</c>, + <c>ei_xreceive_msg</c>, <c>ei_receive_msg_tmo</c> and + <c>ei_xreceive_msg_tmo</c>. The <c>x->index</c> was + set to entire buffer size instead of the number of bytes + actually received.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15171</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed bug in <c>ei_connect_init</c> which could be + provoked if called by concurrent threads. + <c>ei_connect_init</c> called posix interface + <c>gethostbyname</c> which is documented as not thread + safe.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15191</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed bug in erl_compare_ext() ignoring the tail of lists + of otherwise equal content. Example: <c>[a | b]</c> and + <c>[a | c]</c> compared equal and <c>{[a], b}</c> and + <c>{[a], c}</c> compared equal.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15277 Aux Id: PR-1929 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.10.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug where calling erl_init on certain platforms could + result in a buffer overflow bug.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15033</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed <c>erl_call -m</c> to not deallocate module source + binary before it has been read.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15105 Aux Id: ERL-629 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> The program <c>erl_call</c> calls + <c>erl_eval:eval_str/1</c> when it used to call + <c>lib:eval_str/1</c>. This means that <c>erl_call</c> + will fail when trying interact with an Erlang node + running Erlang/OTP 20 or earlier. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15114 Aux Id: OTP-15072, ERL-634 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erl_Interface 3.10.2.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Make <c>ei_connect</c> and friends also accept state + <c>ok_simultaneous</c> during handshake, which means the + other node has initiated a connection setup that will be + cancelled in favor of this connection.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15161 Aux Id: ERIERL-191 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Erl_Interface 3.10.2</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> |