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</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Kernel application.</p>
+<section><title>Kernel 2.16.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A bug in prim_inet has been corrected. If the port owner
+ was killed at a bad time while closing the socket port
+ the port could become orphaned hence causing port and
+ socket leaking. Reported by Fred Herbert, Dmitry Belyaev
+ and others.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-10497 Aux Id: OTP-10562 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A few bugs regarding case sensitivity for hostname
+ resolution while using e.g the internal lookup types
+ 'file' and 'dns' has been corrected. When looking up
+ hostnames ASCII letters a-z are to be regarded as the
+ same as A-Z according to RFC 4343 "Domain Name System
+ (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification", and this was not
+ always the case.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-10689 Aux Id: seq12227 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add <c>application:ensure_started/1,2</c>. It is
+ equivavlent to <c>application:start/1,2</c> except it
+ returns <c>ok</c> for already started applications.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-10910</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Optimize communication with file io server. Thanks to
+ Anthony Ramine.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11040</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Erlang source files with non-ASCII characters are now
+ encoded in UTF-8 (instead of latin1).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11041 Aux Id: OTP-10907 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Optimization of simultaneous <c>inet_db</c> operations on
+ the same socket by using a lock free implementation.</p>
+ <p>
+ Impact on the characteristics of the system: Improved
+ performance.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11074</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The <c>high_msgq_watermark</c> and
+ <c>low_msgq_watermark</c> <c>inet</c> socket options
+ introduced in OTP-R16A could only be set on TCP sockets.
+ These options are now generic and can be set on all types
+ of sockets.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11075 Aux Id: OTP-10336 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix deep list argument error under Windows in os:cmd/1.
+ Thanks to Aleksandr Vinokurov .</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-11104</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Kernel 2.16.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>