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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+  <header>
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2006</year><year>2009</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.
+    
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <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>
+