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 ssl application provides an API to use this new engine concept in TLS.
ssh:
stored in an Engine. See the crypto application for details about Engines.
ssl:
stdlib:
You can find the README and the full listing of changes for this service release at
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.2.readme
The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can be downloaded from
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.2.tar.gz http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.2.exe http://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: http://www.erlang.org/doc/ You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_20.2.tar.gz http://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
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