Erlang/OTP 20.2 is released
Erlang/OTP 20.2 is the second service release for the 20 major release.
The service release contains mostly bug fixes and characteristics
improvements but also some new features.
Some highlights for 20.2
- crypto, ssl
The crypto API is extended to use private/public keys
stored in an Engine for sign/verify or encrypt/decrypt
operations.
The ssl application provides an API to use this new
engine concept in TLS.
- ssh
SSH can now fetch the host key from the private keys
stored in an Engine. See the crypto application for
details about Engines.
- ssl
A new command line option -ssl_dist_optfile has been
added to facilitate specifying the many options needed
when using SSL as the distribution protocol.
- stdlib
Improve performance of the new string functionality
when handling ASCII characters.
You can find the README and the full listing of changes for this
service release at
https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.2.readme
The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can be
downloaded from
https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.2.tar.gz
https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.2.exe
https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_20.2.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-20.2
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_20.2.tar.gz
https://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_20.2.tar.gz
Please report any new issues via Erlang/OTPs public issue tracker
We want to thank all of those who sent us patches, suggestions and bug
reports!
Thank you!
The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson