Some highlights of the release are:

• ERTS: Added command line argument option for setting the initial size of process dictionaries.
• Diameter: configurable incoming_max len and string_decode for diameter messages
• Bugfixes and minor small features in applications such as compiler, common_test, crypto, debugger, eldap, erts, hipe, inets, ssh, ssl, …
• 43 contributions from 32 different contributors

For more details see the README file at http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_17.5.readme

You can download the full source distribution from http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_17.5.tar.gz

Note: To unpack the TAR archive you need a GNU TAR compatible program. For installation instructions please read the README that is part of the distribution.

You can also find this release at the official Erlang/OTP Git-repository at Github here: https://github.com/erlang/otp tagged “OTP-17.5”

The Windows binary distribution can be downloaded from

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_17.5.exe

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_17.5.exe

You can also download the complete HTML documentation or the Unix manual files

http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_17.5.tar.gz http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_17.5.tar.gz

We also want to thank those that sent us patches, suggestions and bug reports.

 

You can find more detailed info and download the release at the download page

The Erlang/OTP Team at Ericsson