Some highlights of the release are:
- erts: Improved dirty scheduler support. A purge of a module will not have to wait for completion of all ongoing dirty NIF calls.
- erts: Improved accuracy of timeouts on MacOS X.
- kernel: Add net_kernel:setopts/2 and net_kernel:getopts/2 to control options for distribution sockets in runtime.
- asn1: Compiling multiple ASN.1 modules in the same directory with parallel make (make -j) should now be safe.
- httpd: support for PUT and DELETE in mod_esi
- ~30 contributions since 19.0
You can find the Release Notes with more detailed info at
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You can also read the documentation on-line here:
(see the Release Notes mentioned above for release notes which
are not updated in the doc, but the new functionality is)
http://www.erlang.org/doc/
We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports.
The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson