Erlang/OTP 17.0 发布，是个主要更新版本，带有许多新特性和系统改进，同时也有一些小的兼容性改进。
值得注意的改进如下：
- Erlang/OTP has been ported to the realtime operating system OSE.
- Maps, a new dictionary data type (experimental)
- A more natural mapping from ASN.1 OCTET STRING and BIT STRING to Erlang types, and other ASN.1 improvements and optimizations
- The {active, N} socket option for TCP, UDP, and SCTP
- A new (optional) scheduler utilization balancing mechanism
- Migration of memory carriers has been enabled by default on all ERTS internal memory allocators
- Increased garbage collection tenure rate
- Experimental "dirty schedulers" functionality
- Funs can now be given names
- Miscellaneous unicode support enhancements
- A new version scheme for OTP its applications has been introduced
更多安装指导请看 README ，前往这里可以下载最新版本，更详细的更新信息请看这里。
Windows 二进制包下载：
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win32_17.0.exe
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_win64_17.0.exe
其他下载：
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_17.0.tar.gz
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_17.0.tar.gz
项目主页：http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-April/078563.html
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