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diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml index e7d1ae150c..118800e44a 100644 --- a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -30,6 +30,161 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the Tools application.</p> +<section><title>Tools 2.6.6.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Declare indentation options as "safe" in erlang-mode for + Emacs</p> + <p> + Emacs has a facility for setting options on a per-file + basis based on comments in the source file. By default, + all options are considered "unsafe", and the user is + queried before the variable is set. This patch declares + the variables erlang-indent-level, erlang-indent-guard + and erlang-argument-indent to be safe, if the value + specified in the source file is valid.</p> + <p> + Such declarations usually look like this:</p> + <p> + %% -*- erlang-indent-level: 2 -*-</p> + <p> + and appear on the first line of the file. (thanks to + Magnus Henoch)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9122</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Cover has been improved to take less memory and allow + parallel analysis of cover data. Data collection from + nodes is now done in parallel and it is now possible to + issue multiple analyse and analyse_to_file requests at + the same time. A new function call async_analyse_to_file + has also been introduced, see the documentation for more + details.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9043 Aux Id: seq11771 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.6.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>eprof: API sort mismatch has now been fixed. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-8853</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + eprof: fix division by zero in statistics</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-8963</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.6.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + <c>cover</c> will now show ampersand characters in the + source code correctly. (Thanks to Tom Moertel.)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-8776</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.6</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>A race condition affecting Cover has been removed.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-8469</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Emacs improvements:</p> + <p> + Fixed emacs-mode installation problems.</p> + <p> + Fixed a couple of -spec and -type indentation and + font-lock problems.</p> + <p> + Fixed error messages on emacs-21.</p> + <p> + Magnus Henoch fixed several issues.</p> + <p> + Ralf Doering, Klas Johansson and Chris Bernard + contributed various emacs-eunit improvements.</p> + <p> + Klas Johansson and Dave Peticolas added emacs-flymake + support.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-8530</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Xref has been updated to use the <c>re</c> module + instead of the deprecated <c>regexp</c> module.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-8472</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>When given the option <c>{builtins,true}</c> Xref now + adds calls to operators.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-8647</p> + </item> + <item> + <p><c>eprof</c> has been reimplemented with support in + the Erlang virtual machine and is now both faster (i.e. + slows down the code being measured less) and scales much + better. In measurements we saw speed-ups compared to the + old eprof ranging from 6 times (for sequential code that + only uses one scheduler/core) up to 84 times (for + parallel code that uses 8 cores).</p> + <p>Note: The API for the <c>eprof</c> has been cleaned up + and extended. See the documentation.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-8706</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Tools 2.6.5.1</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> |