3 Scheduled for Removal

3.1 Introduction

This document list all functionality in Erlang/OTP that currently are scheduled for removal. For more information regarding the strategy regarding removal of functionality see the documentation of Support, Compatibility, Deprecations, and Removal.

3.2 otp 28

Functions Scheduled for Removal in OTP 28

• disk_log:inc_wrap_file/1 (use disk_log:next_file/1 instead)

3.3 otp 27

Vanilla Driver

The old previously documented support for opening a port to an external resource by passing an atom (or a string) as first argument to open_port(), implemented by the vanilla driver, will be removed in OTP 27. This functionality was marked as obsolete about two decades ago and then a few years later the documentation for it was removed. If this functionality is not used with care it might hang or crash the runtime system.

Functions Scheduled for Removal in OTP 27

• crypto:crypto_dyn_iv_init/3 (see the documentation for details)
• crypto:crypto_dyn_iv_update/3 (see the documentation for details)
• ct_slave:_/_ (use ?CT_PEER(), or the 'peer' module instead)
• dbg:stop_clear/0 (use dbg:stop/0 instead)
• file:pid2name/1 (this functionality is no longer supported)
• http_uri:decode/1 (use uri_string:unquote function instead)
• http_uri:encode/1 (use uri_string:quote function instead)
• slave:_/_ (use the 'peer' module instead)
• zlib:adler32/2 (use erlang:adler32/1 instead)
• zlib:adler32/3 (use erlang:adler32/2 instead)
• zlib:adler32_combine/4 (use erlang:adler_combine/3 instead)
• zlib:crc32/1 (use erlang:crc32/1 on the uncompressed data instead)
• zlib:crc32/2 (use erlang:crc32/1 instead)
• zlib:crc32/3 (use erlang:crc32/2 instead)
• zlib:crc32_combine/4 (use erlang:crc32_combine/3 instead)
• zlib:getBufSize/1 (this function will be removed in a future release)
• zlib:inflateChunk/1 (use safeInflate/2 instead)
• zlib:inflateChunk/2 (use safeInflate/2 instead)
• zlib:setBufSize/2 (this function will be removed in a future release)