Has Erlang R17 been released to the present date?

Question

I have read in Joe Amstrong book Programing Erlang about maps as being a new feature in Erlang R17. I tried to look for for a R17 compiler but i couldn't find one. I even compiled the source from git hub but the version that erl shell reports is R16B3. Has R17 been released yet ? Or the book speaks about a release that will come in the future ?

Answer 1

Erlang R17 hasn't been released yet but if you'd like to play with the new features, you can clone:

1. https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/master for the latest commits of R17.

2. https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/egil/maps/eep-implementation for the new maps feature.

Maps haven't been merged/released to Github under the Master branch yet, so you'll have to build that one separately if you want to play with them.

EDIT: The Erlang team has released a few release candidates, the latest of which can be found here.

Answer 2

Erlang version 17 will likely be released in February 2014.

Update: in a message to the erlang-questions mailing list, a member of the OTP team stated they're planning to release Erlang/OTP 17.0 in March 2014.

Answer 3

There is RC1 release here at https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases you can download zip/tar and compile it or you can still clone git