Erlang/OTP 29.0

5 hours ago

Added support for -unsafe attributes to mark functions as unsafe, with compiler warnings for unsafe calls and xref analysis.
SSH daemon now defaults to disabled shell and exec services, and SFTP subsystem is not enabled by default, enhancing security.
SSL now prefers the post-quantum hybrid algorithm x25519mlkem768 as the top key exchange group in default configurations.
New modules include io_ansi for ANSI sequences in terminal applications and ct_doctest for testing documentation examples.
Native records are introduced as an experimental data structure, improving on tuple-based records with true data type support.
New guard BIF is_integer/3 allows integer range checks, and multi-valued comprehensions and variable binding in comprehensions are supported.
Compiler improvements include better code generation for binary matching and more efficient map comprehensions with constant values.
Several new default compiler warnings target deprecated catch, exported variables in subexpressions, obsolete boolean operators, and match patterns.
General changes: default code path moves current directory to last, and 32-bit Windows builds are discontinued.

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