Erlang/OTP 19.0 is a new major release with new features, quite a few (characteristics) improvements, as well as a few incompatibilities.
Some highlights of the release are:
?FUNCTION_NAME
, ?FUNCTION_ARITY
-error(Term)
and -warning(Term)
to cause a compilation error or warning, respectively.gen_statem
behaviorerlang:open_port(spawn, ...)
3-5 times fastergen_udp:open(0, [{ifaddr,{local,"/tmp/socket"}}])
You can find the Release Notes with more detailed info at
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.0.readme
You find the source code at github.com in the official Erlang repository.
Git tag OTP-19.0
https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/OTP-19.0
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)
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
You can build Erlang from source on your own, following the building and installation instructions. Or use the Kerl script. Kerl is a script that lets you easily build Erlang with a few commands. Follow the instructions to build.
Information about all released OTP versions since OTP 17.0 can be found at the OTP Versions Tree page. This information includes a link to the GitHub source tag, and a link to the README. As of OTP 23, Windows binaries can also be downloaded from here for all patches.
Most OS package managers provide pre-built binary packages. You can also download the latest stable releases from Erlang Solutions. Erlang Solutions provides pre-built binary packages for OS X, Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Raspbian and other operating systems.
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).
PDF files are included in the Windows installer and in the HTML documentation tarballs, starting with theR13B03 release.
There is a file containing MD5 checksumsfor all files in the download directory, also reachable through rsync rsync.erlang.org::erlang-download