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diff --git a/lib/observer/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/observer/doc/src/notes.xml index 505d0dcc89..d329be5d5a 100644 --- a/lib/observer/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/observer/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2004</year><year>2016</year> + <year>2004</year><year>2017</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -32,6 +32,191 @@ <p>This document describes the changes made to the Observer application.</p> +<section><title>Observer 2.4</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + <c>etop</c> had a hardcoded timeout value of 1 second + when waiting for data from a remote node. When this + expired, which could happen for instance if there were + very many processes on the remote node, etop would exit + with reason <c>connection_lost</c>. To overcome this + problem, the timeout is now changed to be the same as the + update interval, which is configurable.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14393</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Show dirty-scheduler threads in performance monitor graph + and add a column with maximum allocated memory in the + Memory Allocators table.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14137</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Keep table and port selection after refresh of tables. + Store settings before shutdown and restore when starting + application.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14270</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> Miscellaneous updates due to atoms containing + arbitrary Unicode characters. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14285</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + When observing a node older than OTP-19.0, a pop-up will + be displayed when trying to access port information. + Earlier, observer would crash in this situation.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14345 Aux Id: ERL-399 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Observer 2.3.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + etop erroneously reported the average scheduler + utilization since the tool was first started instead of + the scheduler utilization since last update. This is now + corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14090 Aux Id: seq13232 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + crashdump_viewer crashed when the 'Slogan' had more than + one line. This is now corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14093 Aux Id: ERL-318 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + When clicking an HTML-link to a port before the port tab + has been opened for the first time, observer would crash + since port info is not initiated. This is now corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14151 Aux Id: PR-1296 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The dialyzer and observer applications will now use a + portable way to find the home directory. That means that + there is no longer any need to manually set the HOME + environment variable on Windows.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14249 Aux Id: ERL-161 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Observer 2.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + The shell script (priv/bin/cdv) and bat file + (priv/bin/cdv.bat) which can be used for starting + crashdump_viewer both started a distributed erlang node. + This would cause any attempt at starting a second + instance of the crashdump_viewer to fail. To solve this + problem, cdv and cdv.bat now use non-distributed nodes + when starting the crashdump_viewer.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14010</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + A bug caused the number of buckets to be shown in the + 'Objects' column, and the number of objects to be shown + in the 'Memory' column for ets table in crashdump_viewer. + This is now corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14064</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Add option <c>queue_size</c> to ttb:tracer/2. This sets + the maximum queue size for the IP trace driver which is + used when tracing to shell and/or <c>{local,File}</c>.</p> + <p> + The default value for <c>queue_size</c> is specified by + <c>dbg</c>, and it is now changed from 50 to 200.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13829 Aux Id: seq13171 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The port information page is updated to show more + information per port.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13948 Aux Id: ERL-272 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Observer 2.2.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fixed error handling in observer when mnesia tables was + requested and not available.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13845 Aux Id: ERL-237 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Observer 2.2.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a crash happening when observing another node, who + have a different number of schedulers than the current + one.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13702 Aux Id: ERL-171 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Observer 2.2</title> <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> |