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<p>This document describes the changes made to the Observer
application.</p>
+<section><title>Observer 1.0</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The following bugs in <c>ttb</c> have been corrected:</p>
+ <p>
+ <list> <item><c>ttb:tracer/2</c> would earlier crash when
+ trying to set up tracing for a diskless node to wrap
+ files, i.e. when option
+ <c>{file,{local,{wrap,Filename,Size,Count}}}</c> was
+ used.</item> <item><c>ttb:stop([fetch])</c> would
+ sometimes silently fail if multiple nodes with different
+ current working directories were traced.</item>
+ <item><c>ttb:stop([fetch])</c> would crash if the tracer
+ was started with option
+ <c>{file,{local,Filename}}</c></item> <item>A deadlock
+ would sometimes occur due to an information printout from
+ the <c>ttb_control</c> process when <c>ttb</c> was
+ stopped.</item> </list></p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9431</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The file trace port to which the IP trace client relays
+ all traces from diskless nodes was not flushed and closed
+ properly on ttb:stop. This has been corrected.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9665</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A new GUI for Observer. Integrating pman, etop, appmon
+ and tv into observer with tracing facilities.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-4779</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The following new features are added to <c>ttb</c>:</p>
+ <p>
+ <list> <item>A one-command trace setup is added,
+ <c>ttb:start_trace/4</c>.</item> <item>The following new
+ options are added to <c>ttb:tracer/2</c>: <list>
+ <item><em><c>shell</c></em> - Show trace messages on the
+ console in real time</item> <item><em><c>timer</c></em> -
+ Time constrained tracing</item>
+ <item><em><c>overload</c></em> - Overload
+ protection</item> <item><em><c>flush</c></em> - Flush
+ file trace port buffers with given frequency</item>
+ <item><em><c>resume</c></em> - Automatically resume
+ tracing after node restart</item> </list> </item> <item>
+ A new shortcut is added for common tracer settings
+ similar to using the <c>dbg</c> module directly,
+ <c>ttb:tracer(shell | dbg)</c>. </item> <item> Some
+ shortcuts are added for commonly used match
+ specifications in <c>ttb:tp</c> and <c>ttb:tpl</c>.
+ </item> <item> The <c>Options</c> argument to functions
+ <c>ttb:tracer</c>, <c>ttb:write_config</c>,
+ <c>ttb:stop</c> and <c>ttb:format</c> may now be one
+ single option instead of a list. </item> <item> The
+ history buffer of the last trace is now always
+ automatically dumped to the file <c>ttb_last_config</c>
+ when <c>ttb:stop</c> is called. </item> <item> The
+ following new options are added to <c>ttb:stop/1</c>:
+ <list> <item><em><c>fetch_dir</c></em> - Specify where to
+ store fetched logs</item>
+ <item><em><c>{format,FormatOpts}</c></em> - Specify
+ options to use when formatting the fetched logs</item>
+ <item><em><c>return_fetch_dir</c></em> - Indicate that
+ the return value from <c>ttb:stop/1</c> should include
+ the name of the directory where the fetched logs are
+ stored</item> </list> </item> <item> The option
+ <c>disable_sort</c> is added to <c>ttb:format/2</c>. When
+ this option is used, trace messages from different logs
+ are not merged according to timestamps, but just appended
+ one log after the other. </item> </list></p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9403</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The following non backwards compatible changes are done
+ in <c>ttb</c>:</p>
+ <p>
+ <list> <item> When setting up trace with ttb, the
+ 'timestamp' trace flag will now always be set. </item>
+ <item> The 'fetch' option to ttb:stop/1 is removed since
+ it is now default behavior that trace logs are fetched
+ when stopping ttb. Fetching can be disabled with the
+ 'nofetch' option to ttb:stop/1. </item> <item> The name
+ of the upload directory is changed from
+ ttb_upload-Timestamp to ttb_upload_FileName-Timestamp.
+ </item> <item> To format the output using 'et', you now
+ need to provide the option {handler,ttb:get_et_handler()}
+ instead of {handler,et}. </item> <item> When formatting a
+ trace log, the handler state was earlier reset after each
+ trace file, this is now changed so the handler state is
+ passed not only from one trace message to the next in the
+ same file, but also from one file to the next. </item>
+ </list></p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-9430</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Observer 0.9.10</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>