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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml index 42a26ee44a..4834426d5c 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -30,6 +30,171 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the STDLIB application.</p> +<section><title>STDLIB 1.18.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + References to <c>is_constant/1</c> (which was removed in + the R12 release) has been removed from documentation and + code.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-6454 Aux Id: seq10407 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Leave control back to gen_server during supervisor's + restart loop</p> + <p> + When an attempt to restart a child failed, supervisor + would earlier keep the execution flow and try to restart + the child over and over again until it either succeeded + or the restart frequency limit was reached. If none of + these happened, supervisor would hang forever in this + loop.</p> + <p> + This commit adds a timer of 0 ms where the control is + left back to the gen_server which implements the + supervisor. This way any incoming request to the + supervisor will be handled - which could help breaking + the infinite loop - e.g. shutdown request for the + supervisor or for the problematic child.</p> + <p> + This introduces some incompatibilities in stdlib due to + new return values from supervisor: <list> + <item>restart_child/2 can now return + {error,restarting}</item> <item>delete_child/2 can now + return {error,restarting}</item> <item>which_children/1 + returns a list of {Id,Child,Type,Mods}, where Child, in + addition to the old pid() or 'undefined', now also can be + 'restarting'.</item> </list></p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9549</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + If a temporary child's start function returned 'ignore', + then the supervisor would keep it's child specification. + This has been corrected. Child specifications for + non-existing temporary children shall never be kept.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9782 Aux Id: seq11964 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> Use universal time as base in error logger + <p> + Previous conversion used the deprecated + calendar:local_time_to_universal_time/1 </p></p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9854</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Calling a guard test (such as is_list/1) from the + top-level in a guard, would cause a compiler crash if + there was a local definition with the same name. + Corrected to reject the program with an error + message.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9866</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix the type spec from the doc of binary:part/3 (Thanks + to Ricardo Catalinas Jim�nez)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9920</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Correct spelling of registered (Thanks to Richard + Carlsson)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9925</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Put gb_trees documentation into alphabetical order + (Thanks to Aidan Hobson Sayers)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9929</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug in ETS with <c>compressed</c> option and + insertion of term containing large integers (>2G) on + 64-bit machines. Seen to cause emulator crash. (Thanks to + Diego Llarrull for excellent bug report)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9932</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add plugin support for alternative name lookup This patch + introduces a new way of locating a behaviour instance: + {via, Module, Name}. (Thanks to Ulf Wiger)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9945</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> The function <c>digraph_utils:condensation/1</c> used + to create a digraph containing loops contradicting the + documentation which states that the created digraph is + free of cycles. This bug has been fixed. (Thanks to + Kostis Sagonas for finding the bug.) </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9953</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> When an escript ends now all printout to standard + output and standard error gets out on the terminal. This + bug has been corrected by changing the behaviour of + erlang:halt/0,1, which should fix the same problem for + other escript-like applications, i.e that data stored in + the output port driver buffers got lost when printing on + a TTY and exiting through erlang:halt/0,1. </p> + <p> The BIF:s erlang:halt/0,1 has gotten improved + semantics and there is a new BIF erlang:halt/2 to + accomplish something like the old semantics. See the + documentation. </p> + <p> Now erlang:halt/0 and erlang:halt/1 with an integer + argument will close all ports and allow all pending async + threads operations to finish before exiting the emulator. + Previously erlang:halt/0 and erlang:halt(0) would just + wait for pending async threads operations but not close + ports. And erlang:halt/1 with a non-zero integer argument + would not even wait for pending async threads operations. + </p> + <p> To roughly the old behaviour, to not wait for ports + and async threads operations when you exit the emulator, + you use erlang:halt/2 with an integer first argument and + an option list containing {flush,false} as the second + argument. Note that now is flushing not dependant of the + exit code, and you can not only flush async threads + operations which we deemed as a strange behaviour anyway. + </p> + <p>Also, erlang:halt/1,2 has gotten a new feature: If the + first argument is the atom 'abort' the emulator is + aborted producing a core dump, if the operating system so + allows. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9985</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add escript win32 alternative invocation. escript can now + be started as both "escript.exe" and "escript" (Thanks to + Pierre Rouleau)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9997</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>STDLIB 1.18</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> |