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authorErlang/OTP <[email protected]>2017-12-08 10:57:50 +0100
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<p>This document describes the changes made to the Observer
application.</p>
+<section><title>Observer 2.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A bug introduced in OTP-20 would make Crashdump Viewer
+ crash when trying to expand an empty binary. This is now
+ corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14642</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ If a match spec in the config file contained more than
+ one clause, observer would earlier crash when trying to
+ display it in the GUI. This is now corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14643 Aux Id: ERL-489 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Writing of crash dumps is significantly faster.</p>
+ <p>Maps are now included in crash dumps.</p>
+ <p>Constants terms would only be shown in one process,
+ while other processes referencing the same constant term
+ would show a marker for incomplete heap. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14685 Aux Id: OTP-14611, OTP-14603, OTP-14595 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Binaries and some other data in crash dumps are now
+ encoded in base64 (instead of in hex), which will reduce
+ the size of crash dumps.</p>
+ <p>A few bugs in the handling of sub binaries in
+ <c>crashdump_viewer</c> have been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14686</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ In order to allow future improvements, Crashdump Viewer
+ now checks the version tag of the crashdump to see that
+ it is a known format. If the crashdump version is newer
+ than Crashdump Viewer is prepared to read, then an
+ information dialog is displayed before Crashdump Viewer
+ terminates.</p>
+ <p>
+ If an incomplete process heap is discovered in a
+ crashdump, Crashdump Viewer will now display a warning
+ for this, similar to the warning displayed when a
+ crashdump is truncated. Incomplete heaps can occur if for
+ instance the literals are not included, which is the case
+ for all dumps prior to OTP-20.2.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14755</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Observer 2.5</title>
<section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>