Erlang/OTP 17.5 has been released!
OTP 17.5 Source File (95446113)
OTP 17.5 Windows 32-bit Binary File (95446113)
OTP 17.5 Windows 64-bit Binary File (95622661)
OTP 17.5 HTML Documentation File (33510258)
OTP 17.5 Man Pages File (1363320)
Some highlights of the release are:
ERTS: Added command line argument option for setting the initial size of process dictionaries.
Diameter: configurable incoming_max len and string_decode for diameter messages
Bugfixes and minor small features in applications such as compiler, common_test, crypto, debugger, eldap, erts, hipe, inets, ssh, ssl, ...
43 contributions from 32 different contributors
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Source Versions and Windows Binaries for Patches
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Pre-built Binary Packages
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License
Since OTP 18.0, Erlang/OTP is released under Apache License 2.0. The older releases prior to 18.0 were released under Erlang Public License (EPL), a derivative work of the Mozilla Public License (MPL).
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