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diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml index 05049d7107..0b8a2be715 100644 --- a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -1,23 +1,24 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2004</year><year>2013</year> + <year>2004</year><year>2016</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. + Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); + you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. + You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + + Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + limitations under the License. </legalnotice> @@ -30,6 +31,414 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the Tools application.</p> +<section><title>Tools 2.8.4</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Update fprof to use the new 'spawned' trace event to + determine when a process has been created.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13499</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Optimize adding multiple modules to an Xref server. + </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13593</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Various emacs mode improvements, such as better tags + support.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13610</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.8.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + <c>cover:compile_beam/1</c> and + <c>cover:compile_beam_directory/1,2</c> crashed when + trying to compile a beam file without a <c>'file'</c> + attribute. This has been corrected and an error is + returned instead.</p> + <p> + Thanks to Louis-Philippe Gauthier for reporting this bug.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13200</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Fix a bit string comprehension bug in Cover. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13277 Aux Id: PR 856 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.8.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + The emacs mode does not add a newline after the arrow on + -callback lines anymore.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13042</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.8.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + If a module includes eunit.hrl, a parse transform adds + the function test/0 on line 0 in the module. A bug in + OTP-18.0 caused cover:analyse_to_file/1 to fail to insert + cover data in the output file when line 0 existed in the + cover data table. This is now corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12981</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.8</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + In order to improve performance of the cover tool, new + functions are added for cover compilation and analysis on + multiple files. This allows for more parallelisation.</p> + <p> + Some improvements of the data base access is also done in + order to improve the performance when analysing and + resetting cover data.</p> + <p> + Minor incompatibility: An error reason from + analyse_to_file is changed from no_source_code_found to + {no_source_code_found,Module}.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12330 Aux Id: seq12757 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Attempting to do a <c>cover</c> analysis when neither + source code nor beam file could be found would hang the + <c>cover</c> server. Corrected to return a proper + error.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12806</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Allow maps for supervisor flags and child specs</p> + <p> + Earlier, supervisor flags and child specs were given as + tuples. While this is kept for backwards compatibility, + it is now also allowed to give these parameters as maps, + see <seealso + marker="stdlib:supervisor#sup_flags">sup_flags</seealso> + and <seealso + marker="stdlib:supervisor#child_spec">child_spec</seealso>.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11043</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Remove Mnemosyne rules support.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12511</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add printout of total number of calls and time in eprof</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12681</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.7.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fix lcnt sorting and printout of histograms.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12364</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> Fix a Unicode bug in the <c>tags</c> module. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12567</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix tags completion in erlang.el for GNU Emacs 23+</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12583</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.7.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a typo in erlang-mode comment.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12214</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add a skeleton for -spec in Erlang mode for Emacs</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12283</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Cover no longer crashes when compiling <c>receive</c> and + the like with just an <c>after</c> clause. Thanks to + José Valim for providing a fix.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12328</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.7</title> + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Add log2 histogram to lcnt for lock wait time</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12059</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.15</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Removed <c>erlang:bitstr_to_list/1</c> and + <c>erlang:list_to_bitstr/1</c>. They were added by + mistake, and have always raised an <c>undefined</c> + exception when called.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11942</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.14</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Removed the support for the query keyword from emacs mode + (Thanks to Paul Oliver)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11568</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Emacs mode improvements (Thanks to Steve Vinoski)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11601</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the + following applications: </p> + <p> + <c>asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger, + dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe, + inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools, + percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh, + syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx, + xmerl</c></p> + <p> + A new test utility for testing appup files is added to + test_server. This is now used by most applications in + OTP.</p> + <p> + (Thanks to Tobias Schlager)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11744</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The emacs erlang mode now match erlang keywords more + carefully (Thanks to Steve Vinoski)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11786</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The emacs erlang-mode now auto loads for more file types + (Thanks to Phil Hagelberg)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11788</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + <c>cover</c> can run on itself. Also, support for reading + BEAM files produced by ancient OTP versions before R9C + has been removed.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11692</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Support maps in cover</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11764</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.13</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Erlang-specific compilation error regexp is added in + erlang-eunit.el. This defvar was earlier in erlang.el, + but was erroneously removed in R15B02, while still used + by erlang-eunit.el.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11417 Aux Id: seq12447 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Take compiler options from beam in cover:compile_beam. + Thanks to Péter Gömöri.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11439</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Silence warnings (Thanks to Anthony Ramine)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11517</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Add iodata, nonempty_string to built-in type highlighting + for emacs. Thanks to Paul Oliver.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11394</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.6.12</title> + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Remove trailing spaces in Emacs templates. Thanks to + Roberto Aloi.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11198</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed the Emacs erlang-mode to accommodate the coding + style where lists written across several lines have each + line starting with a comma. Thanks to Magnus Henoch.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11242</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Make the Emacs Erlang mode TRAMP-aware when compiling. + Thanks to Tomas Abrahamsson.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11270</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Tools 2.6.11</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> @@ -103,7 +512,7 @@ <item> <p> Fix a bug in cover when used with no_auto_import. Thanks - to Jos� Valim.</p> + to José Valim.</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-10778</p> </item> @@ -138,7 +547,7 @@ <item> <p> Add separate face for exported functions (Thanks to - Thomas J�rvstrand)</p> + Thomas Järvstrand)</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-10637</p> </item> @@ -223,7 +632,7 @@ </item> <item> <p> - Documentation fixes (Thanks to Ricardo Catalinas Jim�nez + Documentation fixes (Thanks to Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez )</p> <p> Own Id: OTP-10121</p> |