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<copyright>
<year>2006</year><year>2009</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
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<title>Inviso Release Notes</title>
<prepared></prepared>
<docno></docno>
<date></date>
<rev></rev>
<file>notes.xml</file>
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Inviso application.</p>
<section><title>Inviso 0.6.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The documentation is now built with open source tools
(xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One
visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8201</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Inviso 0.6</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
In this release the following has been fixed and
enhanced: Autostart: It is now possible to configure
modules that shall be loaded by the autostart mechanism.
This because it is not certain that all application
systems make use of the OTP boot script to set up paths
to all Erlang modules. Runtime_tools/Inviso: A bug in the
fetch_log functionality has been fixed. Further a bug
that was (supposedly) fixed in a previous patch
concerning meta-tracer write_ti has been fixed (again) in
this patch. A bug in inviso_as_lib making remote
autostart config file updates fail has been fixed.
Inviso: inviso_tool has been given a flush API.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6918</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Inviso 0.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The following bugs/improvements have been done: Internal
interworking between inviso_rt and inviso_rt_meta. The
call function used by inviso_rt to call inviso_rt_meta is
now protected with a monitor. Inviso_rt_meta now includes
the timestamp of the incoming meta trace message when
calling the call-callback. (Makes it possible to add a
"better" timestamp to the ti-file.) Bug in inviso_tool
making it not remove trace patterns when terminating. Bug
in internal function h_start_session making inviso_tool
crash if there were no active nodes to start the session
on. The user-inviso_tool and inviso API-inviso control
component request/response gen_server protocols had
default time-out. Since many trace operations can be time
consuming, a longer time-out is necessary. Improved
overload protection. It is now possible to let the
overload protection renew itself (e.g after an exit from
an external overload protector). Inviso_rt_meta now fully
uses the exception_trace match spec action term. Run
Trace Case API (as in contrast to activate and deactivate
trace case APIs) in inviso_tool. Flush trace-port API
added to inviso. Get_session_data API added to
inviso_tool. Improved inviso_tool:stop making it possible
to name nodes which shall not have their trace patterns
removed when inviso_tool terminates. Bug in handling of
writing multiple ti-entries if returned from a
call/return_from call-back in inviso_rt_meta Process
trace flags are no longer explicitly removed by the
inviso_tool when it terminates. Not necessary.
Inviso_tool get_autostart_data adopted to standard
autostarter.</p>
<p>
*** INCOMPATIBILITY with Meta trace call-backs are called
with different arguments now. ***</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6881</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Inviso 0.4</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
A bug in inviso_rt_meta caused an ETS table containing
information on initiated (init_tpm) functions to be lost
when suspending tracing. Further an enhancement to
inviso_rt has been introduced making it possible to
activate process trace flags based on globally registered
names. It is then not an error to activate a global name
on a node where the name does not reside. The process
count in the return value will simply be set to zero
(hence exactly one node in the NodeResult part of the
return value will indicate one matching process found). A
bug was found in fetch_log API. At the same time the
fetch_log functionality was enhanced to also offer flow
control making fetcher processes send chunks of
transferred file data at a slower pace.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6703</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Minor Makefile changes.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6689 Aux Id: OTP-6742 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Inviso 0.3</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
In this release the first working version of the
inviso_tool is included. Updates and small bugfixes in
the inviso application.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6677</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Inviso 0.2.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Misc improvements.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6576</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Inviso 0.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
This ticket includes several improvements and bugfixes to
both runtime_tools and inviso. The overload mechanism can
now also react to incoming messages. This is useful if
an external overload watch-dog is used. Some improvements
of variable bindings has been done to the default
autostart mechanism - inviso_autostart_server. Autostart
"jobs" can now be done in parallel, allowing for some
jobs to hang waiting for some parts of the traced system
to become ready before proceeding. Previously when using
named meta-match-specs (tpm_ms) ending up with zero
match-specs still kept the meta trace pattern active.
This caused zero match-specs to be equal to unlimited
meta tracing on that particular function. If the internal
database becomes empty of meta match specs, meta trace
pattern is removed for that function. Standard public
loop data in the inviso runtime meta tracer process is
now extended to a 2-tuple. The functions ctp/1 and ctpl/1
are added making it possible to remove trace patterns for
a list of functions rather than one by one.
Inviso_rt_meta will now accept a list of binaries to be
output into the trace information file, in additions to a
single binary. Further it is also possible to make own
output to the trace information file using the write_ti/1
function. An error was discovered in inviso_rt making the
inviso_rt_meta remain rather than terminate if the
inviso_rt terminated due to "running alone" (not allowed
to run without a control component). A new tool,
inviso_tool, has been added to the inviso application.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-6426</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Inviso 0.1</title>
<p>First version.</p>
</section>
</chapter>
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