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    <copyright>
      <year>2006</year>
      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
    </copyright>
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    <title>Webtool Release Notes History</title>
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  </header>

  <section>
    <title>Webtool 0.8.2</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Bugfix: <c>webtool</c> crashed when trying to find a free
            port number if connection failed with other reason than
            <c>econnrefused</c>.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5166</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Misc improvements:</p>
          <list type="bulleted">
            <item>The function <c>debug_app/1</c> and some error
             printouts are added to simplify debugging of own
             application.</item>
            <item>Multiple webtool instances can now be started on
             the same host. If the default port (8888) is in use, port
             8889 is tried. If 8889 is also used, 8890 is tried and so
             on. Max number of ports tried is 256.</item>
            <item><em>Incompatible:</em> If <c>Data</c> is set to
            <c>PortNumber</c> in <c>start(Path,Data)</c>, the default
             data will be used for ip-number (<c>127.0.0.1</c>) and
             server name (<c>localhost</c>).</item>
          </list>
          <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4724</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>
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