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<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -31,6 +31,847 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Kernel application.</p>
+<section><title>Kernel 5.4.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p> Correct a few contracts. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14889</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Reject loading modules with names containing directory
+ separators ('/' or '\' on Windows).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14933 Aux Id: ERL-564, PR-1716 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in handling of os:cmd/2 option max_size on
+ windows.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14940</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.4.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add <c>os:cmd/2</c> that takes an options map as the
+ second argument.</p>
+ <p>
+ Add <c>max_size</c> as an option to <c>os:cmd/2</c> that
+ control the maximum size of the result that
+ <c>os:cmd/2</c> will return.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14823</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.4.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Refactored an internal API.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14784</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Processes which did output after switching jobs (Ctrl+G)
+ could be left forever stuck in the io request.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14571 Aux Id: ERL-472 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Lock counting can now be fully toggled at runtime in
+ the lock counting emulator (<c>-emu_type lcnt</c>).
+ Everything is enabled by default to match the old
+ behavior, but specific categories can be toggled at will
+ with minimal runtime overhead when disabled. Refer to the
+ documentation on <c>lcnt:rt_mask/1</c> for details.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13170</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>lcnt:collect</c> and <c>lcnt:clear</c> will no
+ longer block all other threads in the runtime system.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14412</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ General Unicode improvements.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14462</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.3.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>The documentation for the 'quiet' option in
+ disk_log:open/1 had an incorrect default value.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14498</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Function <c>inet:ntoa/1</c> has been fixed to return
+ lowercase letters according to RFC 5935 that has been
+ approved after this function was written. Previously
+ uppercase letters were returned so this may be a
+ backwards incompatible change depending on how the
+ returned address string is used.</p>
+ <p>Function <c>inet:parse_address/1</c> has been fixed to
+ accept %-suffixes on scoped addresses. The addresses does
+ not work yet, but gives no parse errors.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13006 Aux Id: ERIERL-20, ERL-429 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug where gethostname would incorrectly fail with
+ enametoolong on Linux.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14310</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug causing <c>code:is_module_native</c> to falsely
+ return true when <c>local</c> call trace is enabled for
+ the module.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14390</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add early reject of invalid node names from distributed
+ nodes.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14426</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Since Unicode is now allowed in atoms an extra check is
+ needed for node names, which are restricted to Latin-1.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13805</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Replaced usage of deprecated symbolic <seealso
+ marker="erts:erlang#type-time_unit"><c>time
+ unit</c></seealso> representations.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13831 Aux Id: OTP-13735 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>file:write_file(Name, Data, [raw])</c> would turn
+ <c>Data</c> into a single binary before writing. This
+ meant it could not take advantage of the <c>writev()</c>
+ system call if it was given a list of binaries and told
+ to write with <c>raw</c> mode.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13909</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The performance of the <c>disk_log</c> has been
+ somewhat improved in some corner cases (big items), and
+ the documentation has been clarified. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14057 Aux Id: PR-1245 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Functions for detecting changed code has been added.
+ <c>code:modified_modules/0</c> returns all currently
+ loaded modules that have changed on disk.
+ <c>code:module_status/1</c> returns the status for a
+ module. In the shell and in <c>c</c> module, <c>mm/0</c>
+ is short for <c>code:modified_modules/0</c>, and
+ <c>lm/0</c> reloads all currently loaded modules that
+ have changed on disk.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14059</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Introduce an event manager in Erlang to handle OS
+ signals. A subset of OS signals may be subscribed to and
+ those are described in the Kernel application.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14186</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> Sockets can now be bound to device (SO_BINDTODEVICE)
+ on platforms where it is supported. </p> <p> This has
+ been implemented e.g to support VRF-Lite under Linux; see
+ <url
+ href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt">
+ VRF </url>, and GitHub pull request <url
+ href="https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1326">#1326</url>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14357 Aux Id: PR-1326 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Added option to store shell_history on disk so that the
+ history can be reused between sessions.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14409 Aux Id: PR-1420 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> The size of crash reports created by
+ <c>gen_server</c>, <c>gen_statem</c> and <c>proc_lib</c>
+ is limited with aid of the Kernel application variable
+ <c>error_logger_format_depth</c>. The purpose is to limit
+ the size of the messages sent to the <c>error_logger</c>
+ process when processes with huge message queues or states
+ crash. </p> <p>The crash report generated by
+ <c>proc_lib</c> includes the new tag
+ <c>message_queue_len</c>. The neighbour report also
+ includes the new tag <c>current_stacktrace</c>. Finally,
+ the neighbour report no longer includes the tags
+ <c>messages</c> and <c>dictionary</c>. </p> <p> The new
+ function <c>error_logger:get_format_depth/0</c> can be
+ used to retrieve the value of the Kernel application
+ variable <c>error_logger_format_depth</c>. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14417</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> One of the ETS tables used by the <c>global</c>
+ module is created with <c>{read_concurrency, true}</c> in
+ order to reduce contention. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14419</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Warnings have been added to the relevant documentation
+ about not using un-secure distributed nodes in exposed
+ environments.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14425</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a race during cleanup of os:cmd that would cause
+ os:cmd to hang indefinitely.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14232 Aux Id: seq13275 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>The functions in the '<c>file</c>' module that take a
+ list of paths (e.g. <c>file:path_consult/2</c>) will now
+ continue to search in the path if the path contains
+ something that is not a directory.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14191</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Two OTP processes that are known to receive many
+ messages are 'rex' (used by 'rpc') and 'error_logger'.
+ Those processes will now store unprocessed messages
+ outside the process heap, which will potentially decrease
+ the cost of garbage collections.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14192</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.1.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>code:add_pathsa/1</c> and command line option
+ <c>-pa</c> both revert the given list of directories when
+ adding it at the beginning of the code path. This is now
+ documented.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13920 Aux Id: ERL-267 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add lost runtime dependency to erts-8.1. This should have
+ been done in kernel-5.1 (OTP-19.1) as it cannot run
+ without at least erts-8.1 (OTP-19.1).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14003</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Type and doc for gen_{tcp,udp,sctp}:controlling_process/2
+ has been improved.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14022 Aux Id: PR-1208 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a memory leak when calling
+ seq_trace:get_system_tracer().</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13742</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix for the problem that when adding the ebin directory
+ of an application to the code path, the
+ <c>code:priv_dir/1</c> function returns an incorrect path
+ to the priv directory of the same application.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13758 Aux Id: ERL-195 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix code_server crash when adding code paths of two
+ levels.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13765 Aux Id: ERL-194 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Respect -proto_dist switch while connection to EPMD</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13770 Aux Id: PR-1129 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a bug where init:stop could deadlock if a process
+ with infinite shutdown timeout (e.g. a supervisor)
+ attempted to load code while terminating.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13802</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Close stdin of commands run in os:cmd. This is a
+ backwards compatibility fix that restores the behaviour of
+ pre 19.0 os:cmd.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13867 Aux Id: seq13178 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add <c>net_kernel:setopts/2</c> and
+ <c>net_kernel:getopts/2</c> to control options for
+ distribution sockets in runtime.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13564</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Rudimentary support for DSCP has been implemented
+ in the guise of a <c>tclass</c> socket option
+ for IPv6 sockets.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13582</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.0.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When calling os:cmd from a process that has set trap_exit
+ to true an 'EXIT' message would be left in the message
+ queue. This bug was introduced in kernel vsn 5.0.1.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13813</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.0.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a os:cmd bug where creating a background job using
+ &amp; would cause os:cmd to hang until the background job
+ terminated or closed its stdout and stderr file
+ descriptors. This bug has existed from kernel 5.0.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13741</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.0</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>The handling of <c>on_load</c> functions has been
+ improved. The major improvement is that if a code upgrade
+ fails because the <c>on_load</c> function fails, the
+ previous version of the module will now be retained.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12593</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>rpc:call()</c> and <c>rpc:block_call()</c> would
+ sometimes cause an exception (which was not mentioned in
+ the documentation). This has been corrected so that
+ <c>{badrpc,Reason}</c> will be returned instead.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13409</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>On Windows, for modules that were loaded early (such
+ as the <c>lists</c> module), <c>code:which/1</c> would
+ return the path with mixed slashes and backslashes, for
+ example: <c>"C:\\Program
+ Files\\erl8.0/lib/stdlib-2.7/ebin/lists.beam"</c>. This
+ has been corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13410</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Make file:datasync use fsync instead of fdatasync on Mac
+ OSX.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13411</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The default chunk size for the fallback sendfile
+ implementation, used on platforms that do not have a
+ native sendfile, has been decreased in order to reduce
+ connectivity issues.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13444</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Large file writes (2Gb or more) could fail on some Unix
+ platforms (for example, OS X and FreeBSD).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13461</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A bug has been fixed where the DNS resolver inet_res did
+ not refresh its view of the contents of for example
+ resolv.conf immediately after start and hence then failed
+ name resolution. Reported and fix suggested by Michal
+ Ptaszek in GitHUB pull req #949.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13470 Aux Id: Pull #969 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix process leak from global_group.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13516 Aux Id: PR-1008 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The function <c>inet:gethostbyname/1</c> now honors the
+ resolver option <c>inet6</c> instead of always looking up
+ IPv4 addresses.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13622 Aux Id: PR-1065 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The <c>Status</c> argument to <c>init:stop/1</c> is now
+ sanity checked to make sure <c>erlang:halt</c> does not
+ fail.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13631 Aux Id: PR-911 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add {line_delim, byte()} option to inet:setopts/2 and
+ decode_packet/3</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12837</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Added <seealso
+ marker="kernel:os#perf_counter/1">os:perf_counter/1</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>
+ The perf_counter is a very very cheap and high resolution
+ timer that can be used to timestamp system events. It
+ does not have monoticity guarantees, but should on most
+ OS's expose a monotonous time.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12908</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The os:cmd call has been optimized on unix platforms to
+ be scale better with the number of schedulers.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13089</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>New functions that can load multiple modules at once
+ have been added to the '<c>code</c>' module. The
+ functions are <c>code:atomic_load/1</c>,
+ <c>code:prepare_loading/1</c>,
+ <c>code:finish_loading/1</c>, and
+ <c>code:ensure_modules_loaded/1</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13111</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The code path cache feature turned out not to be very
+ useful in practice and has been removed. If an attempt is
+ made to enable the code path cache, there will be a
+ warning report informing the user that the feature has
+ been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13191</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>When an attempt is made to start a distributed Erlang
+ node with the same name as an existing node, the error
+ message will be much shorter and easier to read than
+ before. Example:</p>
+ <p><c>Protocol 'inet_tcp': the name somename@somehost
+ seems to be in use by another Erlang node</c></p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13294</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The output of the default error logger is somewhat
+ prettier and easier to read. The default error logger is
+ used during start-up of the OTP system. If the start-up
+ fails, the output will be easier to read.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13325</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The functions <c>rpc:safe_multi_server_call/2,3</c>
+ that were deprecated in R12B have been removed.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13449</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Update the error reasons in dist_util, and show them in
+ the logs if net_kernel:verbose(1) has been called.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13458</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Experimental support for Unix Domain Sockets has been
+ implemented. Read the sources if you want to try it out.
+ Example: <c>gen_udp:open(0,
+ [{ifaddr,{local,"/tmp/socket"}}])</c>. Documentation will
+ be written after user feedback on the experimental API.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13572 Aux Id: PR-612 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Allow heart to be configured to not kill the previous
+ emulator before calling the HEART_COMMAND. This is done
+ by setting the environment variable HEART_NO_KILL to
+ TRUE.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13650</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 4.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>code:load_abs([10100])</c> would bring down the
+ entire runtime system and create a crash dump. Corrected
+ to generate an error exception in the calling
+ process.</p>
+ <p>Also corrected specs for code loading functions and
+ added more information in the documentation about the
+ error reasons returned by code-loading functions.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9375</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> Correct the contract for <c>inet:getifaddrs/1</c>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13335 Aux Id: ERL-95 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <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>
+ Add validation callback for heart</p>
+ <p>
+ The erlang heart process may now have a validation
+ callback installed. The validation callback will be
+ executed, if present, before any heartbeat to heart port
+ program. If the validation fails, or stalls, no heartbeat
+ will be sent and the node will go down.</p>
+ <p>
+ With the option <c>'check_schedulers'</c> heart executes
+ a responsiveness check of the schedulers before a
+ heartbeat is sent to the port program. If the
+ responsiveness check fails, the heartbeat will not be
+ performed (as intended).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13250</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Clarify documentation of <c>net_kernel:allow/1</c></p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13299</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ EPMD supports both IPv4 and IPv6</p>
+ <p>
+ Also affects oldest supported windows version.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13364</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 4.1.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Host name lookups though inet_res, the Erlang DNS
+ resolver, are now done case insensitively according to
+ RFC 4343. Patch by Holger Weiß.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12836</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ IPv6 distribution handler has been updated to share code
+ with IPv4 so that all features are supported in IPv6 as
+ well. A bug when using an IPv4 address as hostname has
+ been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13040</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Caching of host names in the internal DNS resolver
+ inet_res has been made character case insensitive for
+ host names according to RFC 4343.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13083</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Cooked file mode buffering has been fixed so
+ file:position/2 now works according to Posix on Posix
+ systems i.e. when file:position/2 returns an error the
+ file pointer is unaffected.</p> <p>The Windows system
+ documentation, however, is unclear on this point so the
+ documentation of file:position/2 still does not promise
+ anything.</p> <p>Cooked file mode file:pread/2,3 and
+ file:pwrite/2,3 have been corrected to honor character
+ encoding like the combination of file:position/2 and
+ file:read/2 or file:write/2 already does. This is
+ probably not very useful since the character
+ representation on the caller's side is latin1,
+ period.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13155 Aux Id: PR#646 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add {line_delim, byte()} option to inet:setopts/2 and
+ decode_packet/3</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12837</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 4.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>A mechanism for limiting the amount of text that the
+ built-in error logger events will produce has been
+ introduced. It is useful for limiting both the size of
+ log files and the CPU time used to produce them.</p>
+ <p>This mechanism is experimental in the sense that it
+ may be changed if it turns out that it does not solve the
+ problem it is supposed to solve. In that case, there may
+ be backward incompatible improvements to this
+ mechanism.</p>
+ <p>See the documentation for the config parameter
+ <c>error_logger_format_depth</c> in the Kernel
+ application for information about how to turn on this
+ feature.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-12864</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Kernel 4.0</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
@@ -159,6 +1000,22 @@
</section>
+<section><title>Kernel 3.2.0.1</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>Kernel 3.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
@@ -423,8 +1280,7 @@
Erlang/OTP has been ported to the realtime operating
system OSE. The port supports both smp and non-smp
emulator. For details around the port and how to started
- see the User's Guide in the <seealso
- marker="ose:ose_intro">ose</seealso> application. </p>
+ see the User's Guide in the ose application. </p>
<p>
Note that not all parts of Erlang/OTP has been ported. </p>
<p>
@@ -913,7 +1769,7 @@
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>
@@ -1192,7 +2048,7 @@
</item>
<item>
<p> Fix returned error from gen_tcp:accept/1,2 when
- running out of ports
+ running out of ports.</p>
<p>
The {error, enfile} return value is badly misleading and
confusing for this case, since the Posix ENFILE errno
@@ -1201,7 +2057,7 @@
{error, system_limit}, which is consistent with e.g.
various file(3) functions. inet:format_error/1 has also
been updated to support system_limit in the same manner
- as file:format_error/1. (Thanks to Per Hedeland)</p></p>
+ as file:format_error/1. (Thanks to Per Hedeland)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9990</p>
</item>
@@ -1396,7 +2252,6 @@
Own Id: OTP-9764</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>
<list> <item><p>Correct callback spec in application
module</p></item> <item><p>Refine warning about callback
specs with extra ranges</p></item> <item><p>Cleanup
@@ -1407,7 +2262,7 @@
analysis</p></item> <item><p>Fix crash in
Dialyzer</p></item> <item><p>Variable substitution was
not generalizing any unknown variables.</p></item>
- </list></p>
+ </list>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9776</p>
</item>
@@ -3052,7 +3907,7 @@
types (for instance, <c>ensure_loaded/1</c> now only
accepts an atom as documented; it used to accept a string
too).</p>
- <p><c>Dialyzer</c> will generally emit warnings for any
+ <p>Dialyzer will generally emit warnings for any
calls that use undocumented argument types. Even if the
call happens to still work in R12B, you should correct
your code. A future release will adhere to the