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diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml index af20200d49..8b0a2ca283 100644 --- a/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2004</year><year>2016</year> + <year>2004</year><year>2018</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -31,6 +31,206 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the Tools application.</p> +<section><title>Tools 3.0</title> + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Added <c>instrument:allocations</c> and + <c>instrument:carriers</c> for retrieving information + about memory utilization and fragmentation.</p> + <p>The old <c>instrument</c> interface has been removed, + as have the related options <c>+Mim</c> and + <c>+Mis</c>.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14961</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.11.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> A counting bug is corrected in <c>Cover</c>. The bug + was introduced in Erlang/OTP 18.0. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14817 Aux Id: PR 1641 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The <c>lcnt</c> server will no longer crash if + <c>lcnt:information/0</c> is called before + <c>lcnt:collect/0</c>.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14912</p> + </item> + <item> + <p><c>lcnt:collect</c> will now implicitly start the + <c>lcnt</c> server, as per the documentation.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14913</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Improved indentation in emacs and various other updates.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14944</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.11.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> Removed all old unused files in the documentation. + </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14475 Aux Id: ERL-409, PR-1493 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.11</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> The predefined Xref analysis <c>locals_not_used</c> + no longer reports unused functions with the + <c>-on_load()</c> attribute.</p> <p> The new predefined + Xref variable <c>OL</c> holds all functions with the + <c>-on_load()</c> attribute. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14344</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + In fprof when sampling multiple processes and analyzing + with totals set to true, the output now sums together all + caller and callee entries which concerns the same + function. Previous behaviour was to report each + contributing entry separately.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14500</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Lock counting can now be fully toggled at runtime in + the lock counting emulator (<c>-emu_type lcnt</c>). + Everything is enabled by default to match the old + behavior, but specific categories can be toggled at will + with minimal runtime overhead when disabled. Refer to the + documentation on <c>lcnt:rt_mask/1</c> for details.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13170</p> + </item> + <item> + <p><c>lcnt:collect</c> and <c>lcnt:clear</c> will no + longer block all other threads in the runtime system.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14412</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + General Unicode improvements.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14462</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Tools are updated to show Unicode atoms correctly.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14464</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Add <c>erlang:iolist_to_iovec/1</c>, which converts an + iolist() to an erlang:iovec(), which suitable for use + with <c>enif_inspect_iovec</c>.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14520</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.10.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + In OTP-20.0, the behavior of c, make, and ct_make was + changed so that in some cases the beam files by default + would be written to the directory where the source files + were found. This is now changed back to the old behavior + so beam files are by default written to current + directory.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14489 Aux Id: ERL-438 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Tools 2.10</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + In some situations, <c>make:all()</c> and friends did not + detect changes in include files located in the current + directory. This is now corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14339 Aux Id: ERL-395 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>The <c>make</c> module now accepts the + <c>{emake,Emake}</c> option.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14253</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> Miscellaneous updates due to atoms containing + arbitrary Unicode characters. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14285</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Tools 2.9.1</title> <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> |