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# Removed Functionality

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## Introduction

This document lists all removed functionality in Erlang/OTP. For more information regarding the strategy regarding removals see the documentation of Support, Compatibility, Deprecations, and Removal.

## OTP 29

### Functions Removed in OTP 29

- `mnesia_registry:create_table/_` (use mnesia:create_table/2 instead)

## OTP 27

### Vanilla Driver

The obsolete and undocumented 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, has been removed. This feature has been scheduled for removal in OTP 27 since the release of OTP 26.

### Functions Removed in OTP 27

- `crypto:crypto_dyn_iv_init/3` (not supported, use crypto:crypto_init/4)
- `crypto:crypto_dyn_iv_update/3` (not supported, use crypto:crypto_update/2)
- `file:pid2name/1` (this functionality is no longer supported)
- `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 has been removed)
- `zlib:inflateChunk/1` (use zlib:safeInflate/2 instead)
- `zlib:inflateChunk/2` (use zlib:safeInflate/2 instead)
- `zlib:setBufSize/2` (this function has been removed)

## OTP 26

### Erlang Distribution Without Large Node Container Support

Communication over the Erlang distribution without support for large node container data types (version 4) was as of OTP 24 deprecated and support for it was scheduled for removal in OTP 26. That is, as of OTP 26, support for large node container data types will become mandatory. This also includes external term format produced by `term_to_binary()`/`term_to_iovec()`.

### Old Link Protocol

The old link protocol used when communicating over the Erlang distribution was as of OTP 24 deprecated and support for it was scheduled for removal in OTP 26. As of OTP 26 the new link protocol became mandatory. That is, Erlang nodes will refuse to connect to nodes not implementing the new link protocol.

### Functions Removed in OTP 26

- `code:is_module_native/1` (HiPE has been removed)
- `code:rehash/0` (the code path cache feature has been removed)
- `disk_log:accessible_logs/0` (use disk_log:all/0 instead)
- `disk_log:lclose/1` (use disk_log:close/1 instead)
- `disk_log:lclose/2` (use disk_log:close/1 instead)
- `erts_alloc_config:_/_` (this module has as of OTP 26.0 been removed)
- `ftp:start_service/1` (use ftp:open/2 instead)
- `ftp:stop_service/1` (use ftp:close/1 instead)
- `httpd_util:decode_hex/1` (use uri_string:unquote function instead)
- `httpd_util:encode_hex/1` (use uri_string:quote function instead)
- `httpd_util:flatlength/1` (use erlang:iolist_size/1 instead)
- `httpd_util:hexlist_to_integer/1` (use erlang:list_to_integer/2 with base 16 instead)
- `httpd_util:integer_to_hexlist/1` (use erlang:integer_to_list/2 with base 16 instead)
- `httpd_util:strip/1` (use string:trim/1 instead)
- `httpd_util:suffix/1` (use filename:extension/1 and string:trim/2 instead)

### Functions Removed in OTP 26

- `code:is_module_native/1` (HiPE has been removed)
- `code:rehash/0` (the code path cache feature has been removed)
- `disk_log:accessible_logs/0` (use disk_log:all/0 instead)
- `disk_log:lclose/1` (use disk_log:close/1 instead)
- `disk_log:lclose/2` (use disk_log:close/1 instead)
- `erts_alloc_config:_/_` (this module has as of OTP 26.0 been removed)
- `ftp:start_service/1` (use ftp:open/2 instead)
- `ftp:stop_service/1` (use ftp:close/1 instead)
- `httpd_util:decode_hex/1` (use uri_string:unquote function instead)
- `httpd_util:encode_hex/1` (use uri_string:quote function instead)
- `httpd_util:flatlength/1` (use erlang:iolist_size/1 instead)
- `httpd_util:hexlist_to_integer/1` (use erlang:list_to_integer/2 with base 16 instead)
- `httpd_util:integer_to_hexlist/1` (use erlang:integer_to_list/2 with base 16 instead)
- `httpd_util:strip/1` (use string:trim/1 instead)
- `httpd_util:suffix/1` (use filename:extension/1 and string:trim/2 instead)

## OTP 25

### Functions Removed in OTP 25

- `filename:safe_relative_path/1` (use filelib:safe_relative_path/2 instead)
- `http_uri:parse/1` (use uri_string functions instead)
- `http_uri:parse/2` (use uri_string functions instead)
- `http_uri:scheme_defaults/0` (use uri_string functions instead)
- `public_key:ssh_decode/2` (use ssh_file:decode/2 instead)
- `public_key:ssh_encode/2` (use ssh_file:encode/2 instead)
- `public_key:ssh_hostkey_fingerprint/1` (use ssh:hostkey_fingerprint/1 instead)
- `public_key:ssh_hostkey_fingerprint/2` (use ssh:hostkey_fingerprint/2 instead)

## OTP 24

### erl_interface registry

The `registry` functionality part of `erl_interface` was as of OTP 23 deprecated and was removed in OTP 24.

### Compilation of Latin-1 Encoded Erlang Files

The Erlang compiler now refuses to compile source files encoded in Latin-1 without a `%% coding: latin-1` comment at the beginning of the file.

### igor and erl_tidy modules in syntax_tools

The `igor` and `erl_tidy` modules have been removed from OTP and is now maintained by their original author Richard Carlsson. They can be found at github.com/richcarl/igor and github.com/richcarl/erl_tidy, respectively.

### Distributed Disk Logs

The distributed `disk_log` feature was as of OTP 23 deprecated and was removed in OTP 24.

### Old Crypto API

The Old API was removed in OTP 24. The support was formally deprecated as of OTP 23.

For replacement functions see the New API.

### Megaco version 3 encoding config

The pre-release version 3 encoding configs; `prev3a`, `prev3b` and `prev3c` was removed in OTP 24. Use the full version instead.

The (encoding) config option for the full version, `{version3, 3}`, will still be supported, even though its no longer necessary to specify it this way.

### Functions Removed in OTP 24

- `crypto:block_decrypt/3` (use crypto:crypto_one_time/4 or crypto:crypto_init/3 + crypto:crypto_update/2 + crypto:crypto_final/1 instead)
- `crypto:block_decrypt/4` (use crypto:crypto_one_time/5, crypto:crypto_one_time_aead/6,7 or crypto:crypto_init + crypto:crypto_update + crypto:crypto_final instead)
- `crypto:block_encrypt/3` (use crypto:crypto_one_time/4 or crypto:crypto_init/3 + crypto:crypto_update/2 + crypto:crypto_final/1 instead)
- `crypto:block_encrypt/4` (use crypto:crypto_one_time/5, crypto:crypto_one_time_aead/6,7 or crypto:crypto_init + crypto:crypto_update + crypto:crypto_final instead)
- `crypto:cmac/3` (use crypto:mac/4 instead)
- `crypto:cmac/4` (use crypto:macN/5 instead)
- `crypto:hmac/3` (use crypto:mac/4 instead)
- `crypto:hmac/4` (use crypto:macN/5 instead)
- `crypto:hmac_final/1` (use crypto:mac_final/1 instead)
- `crypto:hmac_final_n/2` (use crypto:mac_finalN/2 instead)
- `crypto:hmac_init/2` (use crypto:mac_init/3 instead)
- `crypto:hmac_update/2` (use crypto:mac_update/2 instead)
- `crypto:next_iv/_` (see the 'New and Old API' chapter of the CRYPTO User's guide)
- `crypto:poly1305/2` (use crypto:mac/3 instead)
- `crypto:stream_decrypt/2` (use crypto:crypto_update/2 instead)
- `crypto:stream_encrypt/2` (use crypto:crypto_update/2 instead)
- `crypto:stream_init/_` (use crypto:crypto_init/3 + crypto:crypto_update/2 + crypto:crypto_final/1 or crypto:crypto_one_time/4 instead)
- `filename:find_src/_` (use filelib:find_source/1,3 instead)
- `pg2:_/_` (this module was removed in OTP 24. Use 'pg' instead)
- `ssl:cipher_suites/0` (use ssl:cipher_suites/2,3 instead)
- `ssl:cipher_suites/1` (use ssl:cipher_suites/2,3 instead)
- `ssl:ssl_accept/_` (use ssl:handshake/1,2,3 instead)

## OTP 23

### VxWorks Support

Some parts of OTP has had limited VxWorks support, such as `erl_interface`. This support was removed in OTP 23. This limited support was formally deprecated as of OTP 22.

### Legacy parts of erl_interface

The old legacy `erl_interface` library (functions with prefix `erl_`) was removed in OTP 23. These parts of `erl_interface` has been informally deprecated for a very long time, and was formally deprecated in OTP 22. You typically want to replace the usage of the `erl_interface` library with the use of the `ei` library which also is part of the `erl_interface` application.

### httpd_conf module

API functions in the module called `httpd_conf` was deprecated in favor of standard modules such as `lists`, `string`, `filelib`, and `erlang`. Formally deprecated as of OTP 18.

### inets - httpd Apache config files

Support for the Apache-compatible config files was removed in OTP 23. A new config file format was introduced in OTP 12.

### SSL/TLS

For security reasons SSL-3.0 is no longer supported at all.

### Functions Removed in OTP 23

- `erlang:get_stacktrace/0` (use the new try/catch syntax for retrieving the stack backtrace)
- `httpd_conf:check_enum/2` (use lists:member/2 instead)
- `httpd_conf:clean/1` (use string:strip/1 instead or possibly the re module)
- `httpd_conf:custom_clean/3` (use string:strip/1 instead or possibly the re module)
- `httpd_conf:is_directory/1` (use filelib:is_dir/1 instead)
- `httpd_conf:is_file/1` (use filelib:is_file/1 instead)
- `httpd_conf:make_integer/1` (use erlang:list_to_integer/1 instead)

## OTP 22

### Functions Removed in OTP 22

- `os_mon_mib:_/_` (this module was removed in OTP 22.0)

## OTP 20

### Functions Removed in OTP 20

- `asn1ct:decode/_` (use Mod:decode/2 instead)
- `asn1ct:encode/_` (use Mod:encode/2 instead)
- `erlang:hash/2` (use erlang:phash2/2 instead)
- `ssl:connection_info/1` (use ssl:connection_information/1,2 instead)
- `ssl:negotiated_next_protocol/1` (use ssl:negotiated_protocol/1 instead)

## OTP 19

### Functions Removed in OTP 19

- `core_lib:get_anno/1` (use cerl:get_ann/1 instead)
- `core_lib:is_literal/1` (use cerl:is_literal/1 instead)
- `core_lib:is_literal_list/1` (use cerl:is_literal_list/1 instead)
- `core_lib:literal_value/1` (use cerl:concrete/1 instead)
- `core_lib:set_anno/2` (use cerl:set_ann/2 instead)
- `erl_lint:modify_line/2` (use erl_parse:map_anno/2 instead)
- `erl_parse:get_attribute/2` (erl_anno:{column,line,location,text}/1 instead)
- `erl_parse:get_attributes/1` (erl_anno:{column,line,location,text}/1 instead)
- `erl_parse:set_line/2` (use erl_anno:set_line/2)
- `erl_scan:attributes_info/_` (use erl_anno:{column,line,location,text}/1 instead)
- `erl_scan:set_attribute/3` (use erl_anno:set_line/2 instead)
- `erl_scan:token_info/_` (use erl_scan:{category,column,line,location,symbol,text}/1 instead)
- `rpc:safe_multi_server_call/2` (use rpc:multi_server_call/2 instead)
- `rpc:safe_multi_server_call/3` (use rpc:multi_server_call/3 instead)

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