Some highlights of the release are:



gen_statem a new state machine behavior

a new state machine behavior mnesia_ext : plugin of external storage solutions to mnesia

: plugin of external storage solutions to mnesia crypto : uses EVP interface in OpenSSL resulting in generally better performance and support for HW acceleration

: uses EVP interface in OpenSSL resulting in generally better performance and support for HW acceleration ssh : performance improvements, uses the new gen_statem behavior

: performance improvements, uses the new gen_statem behavior ssl : enhanced error log messages

: enhanced error log messages dialyzer : the support for maps is very much extended both the type specification syntax and the type analysis.

: the support for maps is very much extended both the type specification syntax and the type analysis. erts : erlang:open_port(spawn, ...) 3-5 times faster tracing, extensive improvements (scalability, speed, match specifications on send/receive, support for lttng, ...) dirty schedulers improved per process configurable handling of message_queue fast loading of multiple modules max_heap_size process flag

: erts/kernel: Experimental support for Unix Domain Sockets

Example: gen_udp:open(0, [{ifaddr,{local,"/tmp/socket"}}])

and much more ....

19.0

You can find the Release Notes with more detailed info atYou find the source code at github.com in the official Erlang repository.Git tag OTP-You can also read the documentation on-line here:(see the Release Notes mentioned above for release notes whichare not updated in the doc, but the new functionality is)We also want to thank all of you that have contributed with new features, bug-fixes, suggestions and bug reports.The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson