Erlang/OTP 29.0 released with major updates to the telecom-grade runtime
Tags OSS · Infrastructure
The Erlang/OTP 29.0 release is now available, bringing significant updates to the Erlang programming language and its standard library. Erlang, originally developed by Ericsson for telecom systems, remains foundational to many large-scale messaging and distributed systems (including WhatsApp, RabbitMQ, and Discord's early infrastructure). The release includes improvements to the BEAM virtual machine, concurrency primitives, and tooling.
Technical significance
Erlang/OTP remains critical infrastructure for systems requiring extreme reliability and concurrency. The 29.0 release continues the language's evolution toward better tooling and performance while maintaining the fault-tolerance properties that make it indispensable for telecom, messaging, and increasingly, distributed AI serving infrastructure.