CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v1.2.0 - 2025-10-03

• The gleam/otp/factory_supervisor module has been added, for supervision of processes of a fixed type which are dynamically started while the program is running.
• Fixed a bug where InitFailed could contain character lists instead of strings.

v1.1.0 - 2025-08-05

• The call function in the gleam/otp/actor module gains the labels sending and waiting, to match the call function of gleam/erlang/process.

v1.0.0 - 2025-06-12

• Improved the data displayed for Gleam actors in the Erlang observer.

v1.0.0-rc3 - 2025-05-26

• Corrected gleam_stdlib requirement.

v1.0.0-rc2 - 2025-05-24

• The actor module gains a stop_abnormal function

v1.0.0-rc1 - 2025-05-16

• The supervisor module has been removed.
• The intensity_tracker module has been removed.
• The task module has been removed.
• The supervision module has been introduced. This module contains types and functions usable by different supervisor implementations.
• In the gleam/otp/static_supervisor module:
  • The start_link module has been removed.
  • The start module has been added.
  • The supervised module has been added.
  • Types and functions for defining child specifications have been moved to the supervision module.
  • Child ids are now generated, removing possibility of a collision.
  • The Supervisor type has been added.
• In the gleam/otp/actor module:
  • The to_erlang_start_result function has been removed.
  • The InitResult type has been removed.
  • The Spec type has been replaced with the Builder type.
  • The new function has been added.
  • The new_with_initialiser function has been added.
  • The start function has been removed.
  • The start_spec function has been renamed to start.
  • The Initialised type has been added, along with the initialised, selecting, and returning functions to create and work with it.
  • The InitCrashed variant of StartError has been replaced with the InitExited variant.
  • The InitFailed variant of StartError now contains a string rather than an StartError.
  • The Next type now has the state type as the first type parameter and the message type as the second.
  • The Next type is now opaque.
  • The argument order of the actor message handler callback function has been changed so the state is the first argument, and the message is the second.
  • The argument order of call has changed.
  • The StartResult alias has been removed.
  • The ErlangStartResult alias has been removed.

Unreleased

• Fixed a bug where using actor.Stop() with other reasons than Normal would stop the process with Normal.

v0.16.1 - 2025-01-20

• Fixed a bug where the static supervisor would return the incorrect value if it crashes when initialising.

v0.16.0 - 2024-12-10

• Fixed a bug where if an actor times out when starting it would not unlink from the parent.

v0.15.0 - 2024-12-08

• The deprecated try_await_forever function in the gleam/otp/task module has been removed.

v0.14.1 - 2024-11-15

• Fixed a bug where the significant parameter would not be passed to the supervisor in static_supervisor.

v0.14.0 - 2024-11-10

• The gleam/otp/task gains the try_await_all function.

v0.13.1 - 2024-10-31

• The try_await_forever function in the gleam/otp/task module has been deprecated.
• The gleam/otp/task module gains the pid, await2, await3, and await4 functions.
• Tasks are no longer monitored.

v0.12.1 - 2024-09-30

• The minimum required Gleam version in gleam.toml has been increased to match the actual requirement for this package.

v0.12.0 - 2024-09-03

• Port type has been deprecated in favour of the gleam_erlang package Port type.

v0.11.2 - 2024-08-21

• Fixed support for older versions of Gleam.

v0.11.1 - 2024-08-19

• Fixed support for older versions of Gleam.

v0.11.0 - 2024-08-16

• The gleam/otp/static_supervisor module has been added, containing bindings to Erlang/OTP's supervisor module.

v0.10.0 - 2024-03-11

• Fixed bug: supervisors now abort restarting children if limits are exceeded.
• Fixed gleam/otp/system.get_state/1 calls that break in Erlang/OTP >= 26.1. get_state/1 (used in debugging and tests) will error on Erlang/OTP <= 26.0 with "No case clause matched".

v0.9.0 - 2024-01-03

• The useless gleam_otp module has been removed.

v0.8.0 - 2023-11-06

• Updated for Gleam v0.32.0.
• Version requirement for gleam_erlang updated to ~> 0.22.

v0.7.0 - 2023-08-30

• The actor.Continue record now contains an optional Selector, which can be used to change the messages the actor is selecting. The continue and with_selector builder functions have been added to aid with construction of Next values.
• The gleam/otp/node module has been removed in favour of the gleam/erlang/node module in the gleam_erlang package.

v0.6.0 - 2023-07-27

• Updated for Gleam v0.30.

v0.5.3 - 2023-03-30

• Updated for Gleam v0.27.

v0.5.2 - 2022-11-15

• Updated for latest gleam_erlang and Gleam versions.

v0.5.1 - 2022-11-11

• Fixed bug: tasks are now unmonitored by their parent after completion.

v0.5.0 - 2022-08-09

• Updated to use the process module in the gleam_erlang library`.

v0.4.0 - 2022-04-16

• The gleam/otp/process module gains the pid_from_dynamic function.
• The gleam/otp/task module gains the await_forever and try_await_forever functions.

v0.3.1 - 2022-01-07

• Updated for Gleam v0.19.0.

v0.3.0 - 2021-11-23

• Converted to use the Gleam build tool.

v0.2.0 - 2021-09-11

• Updated for Gleam v0.17.0.

v0.1.6 - 2021-08-02

• Updated to use the new #() tuple syntax.

v0.1.5 - 2021-06-01

• Warnings fixed for current versions of Gleam.

v0.1.4 - 2020-12-31

• Port messages are no longer treated as regular channel messages by receivers.

v0.1.3 - 2020-11-07

• The gleam/otp/actor.ErlangStartResult type has been re-added.
• The gleam/otp/actor module now re-exports the pid function of the gleam/otp/process module.

v0.1.2 - 2020-11-02

• The gleam/otp/actor.ErlangStartResult type has been removed.

v0.1.1 - 2020-10-31

• The gleam/otp/process.Sender type is now opaque.

v0.1.0 - 2020-10-31

• Initial minimal release.