[July 2 2009] Eighth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop

Welcome to the Eighth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop which takes place on September 5, 2009 in connection with the ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) in Edinburgh, Scotland. Early registration deadline is July 30, 2009. Please see the workshop program here.

[June 10 2009] Erlang/OTP R13B01 released!

Erlang/OTP R13B01 has been released. R13B01 is a service release for R13B. There are mostly error corrections but also some new functions. Some highlights in the R1301 release are: Communication between Erlang nodes over the Erlang distribution protocol is made more parallel , a new atom cache protocol is introduced as part of this. This allows better performance on SMP and multi-core systems. Improved SMP concurrency for ETS tables. Several processes can now perform truly concurrent updates of different records in the same table. Two new options are added to open_port - spawn_executable and spawn_driver. See the erlang manual for details. New functionality in ETS to transfer ownership of a table. Leex, a lexical analyzer generator for Erlang, has been added as a complement to yecc in the Parsetools application. Read the readme file for R13B01 for details. Download the new release from the download page.

[June 1 2009] Server upgraded

Now the new server is up and running - Webserver, mailserver, mailing lists, EEPs with repositories, Bittorrent, etc. We have a hard time making Google index the new mailing list archives (we have no search engine of our own). The Google group Erlang Programming mirrors the erlang-questions mailing list and has an searchable archive as a workaround.

[March 09 2009] Yet another Erlang book on its way!

Erlang Programming, A Concurrent Approach to Software Development by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson is planned to be published by O'Reilly before the summer.

[March 09 2009] Erlang Factory

The 2009 Erlang Factory is an Erlang Conference and associated Training Cources which takes place in the SF Bay Area and in London. With six tracks and 35 speakers it is an event aimed at those interested in learning more about Erlang and expert users alike.

[February 23 2009] A new Erlang book is on it's way!

Concurrent Programming with Erlang/OTP by Martin Logan, Eric Merritt, Richard Carlsson and Robert Calco is now available from Manning Publications Co in an "Early Access Edition". Readers of the Erlang.org site will get a 35% discount by using erlang35 as the promotional code. For more information, look here.

[November 20 2008] 14th International Erlang/OTP User Conference (EUC'08)

The 14th International Erlang/OTP User Conference took place in Stockholm on November 13, 2008. See the conference proceedings here.

[Nov 5, 2008] Erlang/OTP R12B-5 released

The fifth service release for Erlang/OTP R12B has been released.

Some highlights in this release are:

• Eunit, an application for unit testing of Erlang modules is now part of the distribution.
• User defined attributes can now contain the syntax FuncName/Arity. (An implementation of EEP-24.)
• Read the complete list of bug fixes and new functions in the readme file.

Download the new release from the download page.

Erlang book!

Programming Erlang, Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong is available from Pragmatic Bookshelf. This is the most recent book about Erlang (June 2007) but there are more books on their way. For more information, look here.