diff --git a/whats/cooking/2011/09/22.txt b/whats/cooking/2011/09/22.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fd84b641380e --- /dev/null +++ b/whats/cooking/2011/09/22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,260 @@ +From - Thu Sep 22 14:32:57 2011 +Date: Thu Sep 22 14:32:57 2011 +To: erlang patches +Subject: What's cooking in erlang/otp (2011-09-22) +X-dev-at: 3d31498a0d08a9cf572fc966c025ed44ef15e831 + +The release date for R14B04 is close. +Patches submitted next week will most likely be included in the R15 release + + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Graduated] + +* ac/fix-erl_interface-docs (erl_interface) (2011-09-07) 2 commits + + Make comment reflect code in erl_interface/src/misc/ei_decode_term.c (ff9a8a6) + + ei_decode_ei_term() returns 1 if index is incremented (292eb1b) + +* cr/cppcheck (erl_interface, erts) (2011-08-08) 1 commit + + Changes inspired by running cppcheck(1) (ef757a1) + +* cr/md2-With-RSA-Encryption (crypto, public_key) (2011-09-06) 3 commits + + Document crypto:sha_mac_96/2 to compute an SHA MAC, not MD5 (6cd2fa9) + + Support md2WithRSAEncryption certificates in public_key (c7e5f75) + + Support 'md2' hash in crypto:rsa_sign/3 and crypto:rsa_verify/4 (82897cc) + +* dgud/mnesia/fix-compat/OTP-9473 (mnesia) (2011-08-26) 6 commits + + [mnesia] Fix schema conversion to previous versions (34f20bd) + + [mnesia] Whitespace fixes (06f4e74) + + [mnesia] Update protocol version (1b3cf4e) + + [mnesia] Mnesia schema merge tested with 2 nodes, r13b04 -> r14b (dev) (4364724) + + [mnesia] Fixed bug in aborted schema transactions (2566dbc) + + [mnesia] Add hrl dependency (5cc5184) + +* dgud/wx/virtual-listctrl/OTP-9415 (wx) (2011-07-14) 7 commits + + Handle overloading callbacks the same as events (30283e3) + + Fix documentation and callback options in wxListCtrl:create/3 (f6d6615) + + Add example and testcase (ac97067) + + Add wxListItemAttr (0635c27) + + Generated code of previous commit (0f6282f) + + Add support for virtual listctrls (98a0a3a) + + Re-generated with new doxygen (7c9696d) + +* dj/xmerl_ucs-latin9-support (xmerl) (2011-04-13) 1 commit + + Add latin9 (iso-8859-15) support in xmerl_ucs (60c2511) + +* egil/fix-compiler-warning/OTP-9542 (erts, gs, os_mon) (2011-09-16) 3 commits + + gs: Update to modern type guards in examples (2c79dee) + + os_mon: Check results from fgets in cpu_sup (211389b) + + erts: Remove compiler warning in sys.c (a27dbff) + +* jw/release_handler_1 (sasl) (2011-06-09) 1 commit + + General improvements to release_handler_1:get_supervised_procs (feecf39) + +* mp/xmerl-ucs2-fix (xmerl) (2011-08-25) 1 commit + + Fixed xmerl_ucs UCS2 little endian en/decoding (374b029) + +* pg/fix-hipe-bs_get_float2 (hipe) (2011-09-03) 1 commit + + Fix bug with binary pattern matching of floats of variable size (ba14137) + +* ta/docs-fixes (common_test, cosFileTransfer, dialyzer, diameter, erts, hipe, ic, inets, kernel, otp, runtime_tools, ssl, stdlib, test_server, toolbar, tools, wx, xmerl) (2011-09-16) 19 commits + + Fix misspelling of intermediate (85b7372) + + Fix typos in erts/preloaded/src (067b7a9) + + Fix more misspellings of compatibility (c59dc07) + + Fix misspelling of kept (411edce) + + Fix misspelling of compatibility in ssl_basic_SUITE (41683d2) + + Fix misspelling of compatibility (2f696e4) + + Fix misspelling of accommodate (65c9f41) + + Fix misspelling of exceed (dfbbdaa) + + Fix misspelling of accidentally (044a09a) + + Fix misspelling of erroneous in xmerl_xsd (d15f145) + + Fix misspelling of erroneous (90fc4f6) + + Fix misspelling of successful (90f703b) +. +. +. + +* ta/typer-quote-atoms (dialyzer, hipe, typer) (2011-09-19) 2 commits + + Update Dialyzer's reference results (291e32d) + + Quote atoms if necessary in types (9c132d6) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[New topics] + +* rj/fix-doctypos (kernel, otp) (2011-09-19) 3 commits + - Adds missing spaces in Reference Manual in distributed section (0ac642f) + - Fixes typo in heart doc, adds missing parenthesis (60ed9f9) + - Fixes typo in Reference Manual in macros section (63c101d) + +* ta/erl_prim_loader-primary_archive-reloading (erts, stdlib) (2011-09-01) 1 commit + - [erts,stdlib] fix escript/primary archive reloading (e88bfb7) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Stalled] + +* bw/efile_exists (erts) (2010-10-07) 1 commit + - prim_file:exists/{1,2} which is lightweight file existence check (7203932) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +* fm/enif_is_number (erts) (2011-06-08) 1 commit + - Add NIF function enif_is_number (8db78b0) + +Action expected from: R15 + +* fm/posix-fallocate (erts, kernel) (2010-12-28) 1 commit + - Added file:allocate/2 (682f39a) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +* hl/beam_disasm-no_attri_chunk (compiler) (2011-07-22) 1 commit + - beam_disasm: Handle stripped BEAM files (347dfb0) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +* jn/gen_stream (stdlib) (2011-04-15) 2 commits + - Update gen_stream tests to conform with common_test standard (ce84daf) + - Add gen_stream behaviour (6a089a4) + +Action expected from: OTP-Team + +* ms/epmd-IPv6-node-reg (erts, kernel) (2011-06-03) 1 commit + - epmd: support IPv6 node registration (5523b21) + +Action expected from: R15 + +* pr/mnesia_frag_hash (mnesia) (2011-04-27) 2 commits + - add mnesia_frag_hash test (1d6762d) + - Reduce calls to phash in key_to_frag_number (67a20c0) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +* rc/epp-include-path-fix (stdlib) (2011-06-14) 1 commit + - Make Erlang preprocessor check dir of current file first (b5d2469) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +* ta/nif-variadic-funs (erts) (2011-05-13) 1 commit + - erts: convert variadic nif funs into inline funs (9a1f9b6) + +Action expected from: R15 + +* tn/inet_drv-fix (erts) (2011-04-08) 1 commit + - Use libdlpi to get physical address (e360563) + +Action expected from: Topic author + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Cooking] + +* bg/temp-hipe-fixes (compiler, kernel) (2010-03-15) 5 commits + - Avoid crash by skipping compilation_SUITE:on_load/1 (dbfaf1e) + - Inline less aggressively for native-code compilation (d3c0f64) + - seq_trace_SUITE: Don't native-compile (c567913) + - Disable native code if on_load is used (df43791) + - andor_SUITE: Don't native-compile (60d5f08) + +This branch contains temporary workarounds to avoid failing test +cases and is never intended to graduate. + +* cf/simple_one_for_one_shutdown (otp, stdlib) (2011-09-14) 3 commits + - Explain how dynamic child processes are stopped (0473132) + - Stack errors when dynamic children are stopped (42c581d) + - Explicitly kill dynamic children in supervisors (4775947) + +* cf/supervisor_shutdown_infinity (otp, stdlib) (2011-09-14) 2 commits + - Add a warning to docs about workers' shutdown strategy (76cc98d) + - Allow an infinite timeout to shutdown worker processes (9f6552d) + +* hl/fix-ms_transform-scope-warn (stdlib) (2011-08-26) 1 commit + - ms_transform: Fix incorrect `variable shadowed' warnings (29610af) + +* mh/create_cookie_error_msg (kernel) (2011-09-15) 1 commit + - Specify file name and error on create_cookie failure (9319587) + +* pg/fix-cover-leftover-down-msg (tools) (2011-08-29) 1 commit + - [cover]fix leftover {'DOWN', ..} msg in callers queue (cc087c3) + +* rc/remote-shell-completion (kernel) (2010-10-22) 1 commit + - make tab completion work in remote shells (73d1959) + +* ta/sendfile (erts, kernel) (2011-01-13) 1 commit + - Implement file:sendfile (e362bb2) + +* va/http-win-dir-traversal (inets) (2011-08-26) 1 commit + - Fix httpd directory traversal on Windows (a936795) + +------------------------------------------------------------ +[Dropped] + +* nox/xmerl-namespace-axis (xmerl) (2010-12-07) 12 commits + . Implement namespace axis (27d791f) + . Add `#xmlPI` support to xmerl_xpath:write_node/1 (75e67f5) + . Fix processing-instruction(name?) (f05e78b) + . Fix path filters (610df56) + . Support more top-level primary expressions (770d6d9) + . Accumulate comments in element nodes (e5b6b3a) + . Add `default_attrs` option (18584c5) + . Allow whole documents to be returned (aef3dea) + . Track parents and namespace in `#xmlAttribute` nodes (dc9b220) + . Track parents in `#xmlPI` nodes (5095331) + . Set `vsn` field in `#xmlDecl` record (d712331) + . Fix namespace-conformance constraints (e062270) + +* pd/ttb-cleanup (observer, runtime_tools) (2011-08-25) 38 commits + . Support for stopped and resumed tracing. (7e2c876) + . More robust testing of tracing with 'local' option. (1924817) + . Print path to logs dir unless nofetch option specified. (f7dc3bf) + . Removed unused option to send realtime trace to erlide. (224f432) + . Documented global state when applying formatting function to trace logs. (584eec8) + . Test for: (BUGFIX) Error with ip tracing to wrap sets. (7f2123b) + . Stop option 'return' changed to 'return_fetch_dir' (b610184) + . update format function's description (e598660) + . It is safe to change cwd on control node or remote nodes while tracing (2d319d3) + . fixed documentation (4e3b8cc) + . additional tests for ttb module (da2e84e) + . new tests for ttb module (871839b) +. +. +. + +* pf/fix-cover-leftover-down-msg (Makefile +, asn1, common_test, compiler, cosEvent, cosEventDomain, cosFileTransfer, cosNotification, cosProperty, cosTime, cosTransactions, crypto, debugger, diameter, docbuilder, erl_interface, erts, eunit, gs, hipe, ic, inets, jinterface, kernel, megaco, mnesia, observer, orber, os_mon, otp, parsetools, public_key, runtime_tools, snmp, ssh, ssl, stdlib, test_server, tv, wx, xmerl) (2011-09-21) 302 commits + + . Merge remote branch 'upstream/dev' into major (4b30074) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (a192733) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (e58fa57) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (ec36499) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (532c72b) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (70fa7fa) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (bdc4bab) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (50dc9c8) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (40f724a) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (87288e1) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (adbad8f) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (9be7dd2) +. +. +. + +* rc/ftp-avoid-hanging (inets) (2010-08-25) 1 commit + . Avoid hanging in socket-accept (cb7dfde) + +* sa/callback-attr (Makefile +, asn1, common_test, compiler, cosEvent, cosEventDomain, cosFileTransfer, cosNotification, cosProperty, cosTime, cosTransactions, crypto, debugger, diameter, docbuilder, erl_interface, erts, eunit, gs, hipe, ic, inets, jinterface, kernel, megaco, mnesia, observer, orber, os_mon, otp, parsetools, public_key, runtime_tools, snmp, ssh, ssl, stdlib, test_server, tv, wx, xmerl) (2010-06-08) 306 commits + . Add callback specs into 'application' module in kernel (a54866b) + . Add callback specs to tftp module following internet documentation (e14c3c6) + . Add callback specs to inets_service module following possibly deprecated comments (3eaa5a9) + . Add '-callback' attributes in stdlib's behaviours (b606232) + . Update primary bootstrap (fbf331d) + . Update the documentation with information on the callback attribute (e6a152e) + . Automatically generate 'behaviour_info' function from '-callback' attributes (c1aa398) + . Add '-callback' attribute to language syntax (1837121) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (532c72b) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (70fa7fa) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (bdc4bab) + . Merge branch 'dev' into major (50dc9c8) +. +. +. +