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<title>Percept Release Notes</title>
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<p>This document describes the changes made to the Percept application.</p>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.9</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the
following applications: </p>
<p>
<c>asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger,
dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe,
inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools,
percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh,
syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx,
xmerl</c></p>
<p>
A new test utility for testing appup files is added to
test_server. This is now used by most applications in
OTP.</p>
<p>
(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11744</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.8.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
The encoding of the <c>notes.xml</c> file has been
changed from latin1 to utf-8 to avoid future merge
problems.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11310</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.8.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Postscript files no longer needed for the generation
of PDF files have been removed. </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-11016</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.8</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Misc build updates</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10784</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.7</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Add missing modules in app-file</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-10439</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.6.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Miscellaneous documentation build updates</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9813</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.6</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix message handling in select requests</p>
<p>
percept_db used to send results in untagged messages, and
use a non selective receive to extract them. When percept
is used from the shell process, this can confuse other
messages with the actual result.</p>
<p>
Add a tag to the message to be {result, Result}. Add
demonitor to avoid keeping DOWN message in the queue fix
one spec in do_start/0</p>
<p>
(Thanks to Ahmed Omar)</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9490</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p> Fixes a race condition found in percept_db start/1
function. (Thanks to Ahmed Omar) </p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-9012</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.4</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fix egd_render transparent to use float constants.</p>
<p>
The render engine has float guards to enhance beam code
generation. However, the default case used integers which
caused the engine to crash. This is now fixed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8425</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>The documentation is now possible to build in an open
source environment after a number of bugs are fixed and
some features are added in the documentation build
process. </p>
<p>- The arity calculation is updated.</p>
<p>- The module prefix used in the function names for
bif's are removed in the generated links so the links
will look like
"http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2"
instead of
"http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2".</p>
<p>- Enhanced the menu positioning in the html
documentation when a new page is loaded.</p>
<p>- A number of corrections in the generation of man
pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan)</p>
<p>- The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so
OTP's build process can be used for non OTP
applications.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8343</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Cleanups suggested by tidier and modernization of types
and specs.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8455</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.3</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>Percept 0.8.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Extensions to <c>egd:color/1</c> for using atoms as color
definition in addition to rgb triplets.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7975</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8.1</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p><c>egd</c> now supports encapsulated postscript output
format.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7923</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.8</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>A problem with options list to percept causing some
options to be disregarded unintentionally. This has now
been fixed.</p> <p>An error in <c>percept_analyzer</c>
caused calculation of standard deviation to be incorrect.
This has now been corrected.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7693</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Updated css for percept server for enhanced
viewing.</p> <p>Increased performance of egd render.</p>
<p>Several graph errors could occur when compacting data
to decrease graph rendering time causing incorrect
scalability numbers. These errors have now been
fixed.</p> <p>Increased viewing width for graphs. The
viewing width is now dependent on client screen
resolution.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7696</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.7.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>External pids caused the webserver to crash. This has
now been fixed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7515 Aux Id: seq11004 </p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Fixed a timestamp problem where some events could be
sent out of order. Minor fixes to presentation of
data.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7544 Aux Id: otp-7442 </p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Performance enhancement for the egd render engine
(Thanks to Magnus Thoäng).</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7616</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.7.2</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Calling <c>egd:destroy/1</c> did not properly remove
the process holding the image.</p>
<p>Synchronous calls done via the egd interface could
erroneous receive messages not intended for egd. Messages
are now tagged in such a way so this should not
occur.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7336</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.7.1</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
Fixed out of bounds rendering problem in egd which could
cause the rendering process to crash.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7215</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.7</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>Percept no longer depends on external c-libraries. The
graphical rendering is now done via erlang code.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7162</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section><title>Percept 0.6.2</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
A new module, percept_profile, can now be used to collect
profiling data even if the percept application is not
installed. This should help profiling erlang application
on target machines without libgd installed.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-7126</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Percept 0.5.0</title>
<section><title>First Release</title>
<list>
<item>
<p>
First Release.
</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-6783</p>
</item>
</list>
</section>
</section>
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