Erlang

Erlang is an open source programming language designed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory.

Erlang is being released to help encourage the spread of Erlang outside Ericsson.

What is new in this release:

• A new memory allocation feature called "super carrier" has been introduced. It can for example be used for pre-allocation of all memory that the runtime system should be able to use. It is enabled by passing the +MMscs (size in MB) command line argument. For more information see the documentation of the +MMsco, +MMscrfsd, +MMscrpm, +MMscs, +MMusac, and, +Mlpm command line arguments in the erts_alloc(3) documentation.
• The LDAP client (eldap application) now supports the start_tls operation. This upgrades an existing tcp connection to encryption using TLS, see eldap:start_tls/2 and /3.
• The FTP client (inets application) now supports FTP over TLS (ftps).

What is new in version R15B02:

• Dialyzer: The type analysis tool Dialyzer is optimized to be generally faster. - It can now also run in parallel (default) on SMP systems and by this perform the analysis significantly faster (Thanks to Stavros Aronis and Kostis Sagonas)
• The SSL application now has experimental support for the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 standards as well (Thanks to Andreas Schultz).
• CommonTest: It is now possible to sort the generated html tables. A Netconf client (ct_netconf) which support basic netconf over ssh is added
• Diameter: Statistics counters related to Diameter messages can now be retrieved by calling the diameter:service_info/2 function.
• Various smaller optimizations in the Erlang VM
• This release also contains 66 contributions from users outside the Ericsson team

What is new in version R14B04:

• Numerous bugfixes.
• The crypto was changed to be dynamically linked against OpenSSL.
• Improved error handling.
• Minor compatibility fixes.
• Documentation cleanup.