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<chapter>
  <header>
    <copyright>
      <year>2007</year>
      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
    </copyright>
    <legalnotice>
  The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
  Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
  compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
  Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
  retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.

  Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
  basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
  the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
  under the License.

  The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ericsson AB.
    </legalnotice>

    <title>Percept Release Notes</title>
    <prepared>otp_appnotes</prepared>
    <docno>nil</docno>
    <date>nil</date>
    <rev>nil</rev>
    <file>notes.xml</file>
  </header>
  <p>This document describes the changes made to the Percept application.</p>

<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 Tho�ng).</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>
</chapter>