2023/05/12: Rebar3 is now used for autopatch instead of
Rebar2. make distclean or rm -rf .erlang.mk
might be required after updating Erlang.mk.
Moving to Rebar3 increases compatibility now
that few maintained projects are using Rebar2.
For compatibility reasons the variables to
point to a different rebar are now REBAR3_GIT
and REBAR3_COMMIT.
2023/05/12: A number of broken packages have been removed. They were all unmaintained and there’s a low chance that this will break anyone’s project.
2023/05/15: Protobuff compilation with gpb now uses the
{use_packages, true} option.
2023/05/15: Experimental support for caching git and
hex dependencies has been added. Set
CACHE_DEPS=1 to enable.
2023/05/16: Remove support for HiPE and ErlLLVM.
2024/10/01: Initial beam-cache implementation. This is used to cache beam files when switching from/to test builds.
2024/11/14: Most packages in the Erlang.mk package index have been removed. To ensure that existing projects continue working, please add the relevant dep_* lines to your projects. If you were using dep_*_commit lines make sure to update them as well. Note that projects that have corresponding Erlang.mk functionality, as well as Cowboy, Ranch, Gun and Cowlib remain in the index.
2024/11/19: The deprecated defines dep_fetch,
dep_repo and dep_commit have been removed
in favor of their query_* equivalents.
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The deprecated define dep_name will be
removed at a later date to give time to
users to upgrade.
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The deprecated legacy fetch method has also
been removed (dep_cowboy = https://…; ref
without an explicit fetch method). Adding "git"
at the beginning of the dep line is the modern
equivalent.
2024/11/22: Templates no longer use Make variables for substitution. Instead the strings template_name and project_name get replaced by their equivalent. Note that using variables in your own templates should still work, but that this way of doing things is deprecated. This change makes it possible to have templates outside of Makefiles.
2024/11/27: $(ERL) has been updated. It no longer starts the distribution, and limits processes/ports to 1024.
2024/11/28: Autopatching of dependencies that are using Rebar2 is deprecated and will be removed in a future update. Erlang.mk will always assume that a Rebar project uses Rebar3 from that point forward.