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Erlang/OTP 29.0
Key takeaways
- Erlang/OTP 29 is a new major release with new features, improvements as well as a few incompatibilities.
- Added support for -unsafe attributes for marking functions as unsafe to use.
- The SSH daemon now defaults to disabled for shell and exec services, implementing the “secure by default” principle.
Erlang/OTP 29 is a new major release with new features, improvements as well as a few incompatibilities. Some of the new features are highlighted below.
Added support for -unsafe attributes for marking functions as unsafe to use. The compiler will by default now generate warnings for calls to functions in Erlang/OTP known to be always unsafe. Furthermore, xref can now be used to find calls to unsafe functions and functions that lack documentation.
The SSH daemon now defaults to disabled for shell and exec services, implementing the “secure by default” principle. This prevents authenticated users from executing arbitrary Erlang code unless explicitly configured.
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