Erlang/OTP 19.2 has been released

December 14, 2016 · by Björn-Egil Dahlberg

Some highlights for 19.2

  • STDLIB: The new behaviour gen_statem has been improved with 3 new features: the possibility to use old style non-proxy timeouts for gen_statem:call/2,3, state entry code, and state timeouts. These are backwards compatible. Minor code and documentation improvements has been performed including a borderline semantics correction of timeout zero handling.
  • SSL: Experimental version of DTLS. It is runnable but not complete and cannot be considered reliable for production usage. To use DTLS add the option {protocol, dtls} to ssl:connect and ssl:listen.
  • SSH: Extended the option silently_accept_hosts for ssh:connect to make it possible for the client to check the SSH host key fingerprint string. Se the reference manual for SSH.
  • ~40 contributions since the previous service release OTP 19.1

You can find the README and the full listing of changes for this service release at

  https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.2.readme    The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can be downloaded from

  https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.2.tar.gz   https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_19.2.exe   https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_19.2.exe    Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program.

For installation instructions please consult the README file that is part of the distribution.

The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang repository, https://github.com/erlang/otp with tag OTP-19.2

The on-line documentation can be found at: https://www.erlang.org/doc/ You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files

  https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_19.2.tar.gz   https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_19.2.tar.gz    Please report any new issues via Erlang/OTPs public issue tracker 

   https://bugs.erlang.org     We want to thank all of those who sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports!

Thank you!

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson