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Erlang/OTP 20.2 is released
Written by , Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Erlang/OTP 20.2 is the second service release for the 20 major release.The service release contains mostly bug fixes and characteristicsimprovements 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 thisservice release at http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.2.readme The source distribution and binary distributions for Windows can bedownloaded from http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_20.2.tar.gzhttp://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_20.2.exehttp://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 ispartof the distribution. The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the officialErlangrepository, 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 Unixmanual files http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_20.2.tar.gzhttp://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 bugreports! Thank you! The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson