Erlang/OTP R14B is now out

From the Erlang mailing list:<p>"This release is mainly a stabilization of the R14A release (which was a beta) but there are some new functionality also."

Use the torrent for faster downloads... <a href="http://www.erlang.org/download/torrents/otp_src_R14B.tar.gz.torrent" rel="nofollow">http://www.erlang.org/download/torrents/otp_src_R14B.tar.gz....</a> which is linked prominently from erlang.org's downloads page.<p>Actually, what I find most interesting is that looking at their tracker stats: <a href="http://www.erlang.org/stats/torrent.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.erlang.org/stats/torrent.html</a> reveals surprisingly small download counts. It isn't clear when the download counts were last reset (or if this is accurate at all?), but so far, only 13 people have completed a download of this latest build via the torrent, and at most a few hundred of earlier versions. Interesting way to estimate the size of the "active" Erlang community?

Please advise on when erlang is good for production. They have a bit more frequent releases, it seems, an I'd expect.<p>Is it feasible to install R14B and stick with it until R15B? Or do i need to be installing the -1 ets as well?<p>Also, is there no autoupdatable ubuntu package so that I can at least install security patches?

This is where Node.js and Clojure fanboys should learn from. First ones, about what is real concurrency, second ones - what is a functional programming (as opposed to code imperative stuff in a funny lisp-like systax). ^_^