DOWNLOAD OTP 20.2

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

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

https://bugs.erlang.org

We want to thank all of those who sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports!

Thank you!

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson

Artifacts:

Compiling Erlang from source

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.

Source Versions and Windows Binaries for Patches

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.

Pre-built Binary Packages

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.

  • For Homebrew on OS X: brew install erlang
  • For MacPorts on OS X: port install erlang
  • For Ubuntu and Debian: apt-get install erlang
  • For Fedora: yum install erlang
  • For FreeBSD: pkg install erlang

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).

Available releases

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