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    <title>Debugger Release Notes</title>
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  <p>This document describes the changes made to the Debugger
    application.</p>

<section><title>Debugger 3.2.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The documentation is now built with open source tools
	    (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One
	    visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8201</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Debugger 3.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Added a new gui, start with debugger:start(gs) for old
	    gui.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7366</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The undocumented, unsupported, and deprecated guard BIF
	    <c>is_constant/1</c> has been removed.</p>
          <p>
	    *** INCOMPATIBILITY with R12B ***</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7673</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Debugger 3.1.1.4</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    There is now experimental support for loading of code
	    from archive files. See the documentation of <c>code</c>,
	    <c>init</c>, <c>erl_prim_loader </c> and <c>escript</c>
	    for more info.</p>
          <p>
	    The error handling of <c>escripts</c> has been improved.</p>
          <p>
	    An <c>escript</c> may now set explicit arguments to the
	    emulator, such as <c>-smp enabled</c>.</p>
          <p>
	    An <c>escript</c> may now contain a precompiled beam
	    file.</p>
          <p>
	    An <c>escript</c> may now contain an archive file
	    containing one or more applications (experimental).</p>
          <p>
	    The internal module <c>code_aux</c> has been removed.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7548 Aux Id: otp-6622 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Debugger 3.1.1.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Minor changes.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7388</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Debugger 3.1.1.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>The documentation has been updated so as to reflect
	    the last updates of the Erlang shell as well as the minor
	    modifications of the control sequence <c>p</c> of the
	    <c>io_lib</c> module.</p> <p>Superfluous empty lines have
	    been removed from code examples and from Erlang shell
	    examples.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-6944 Aux Id: OTP-6554, OTP-6911 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

  <section><title>Debugger 3.1.1.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Minor Makefile changes.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Obsolete guard tests (such as list()) have been replaced
	    with the modern guard tests (such as is_list()).</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-6725</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section><title>Debugger 3.1.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Removed some dead code from <c>dbg_ieval</c>.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-6552</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section><title>Debugger 3.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            The interpreter could not handle the case where an
            expression that should evaluate to a fun referred to
            uninterpreted code.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-6061 Aux Id: seq10295</p>
        </item>
	<item>
	  <p>
	    Timeout for <c>gen_server</c> calls within Debugger is
	    now set to <c>infinity</c>.</p>
	  <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-6103</p>
	</item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Notification windows are now centered over a parent
            window.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-6011 Aux Id: OTP-5987</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            When interpreting a module, it is now checked that the
            module does not belong to the Kernel, STDLIB, GS or
            Debugger application, as interpreting a module used by
            the debugger/interpreter itself will lead to a deadlock
            or emulator crash.</p>
          <p>
            Also <c>int:interpretable(Mod)</c> has been extended to
            return <c>{error,{app,App}}</c> if <c>Mod</c> belongs to
            one of the above applications.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-6020</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            <c>andalso</c>/<c>orelse</c> is now supported.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-6021 Aux Id: OTP-5894</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section><title>Debugger 3.0.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            When evaluating a guard expression for a fun function
            clause, the environment variable bindings were not taken
            into account.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-5837</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>A number of smaller improvements to the GUI:</p>
	  <list>
	    <item>Multiple choices now possible in Function Break
	      Dialog Window.</item>
	    <item>Right-clicking the Module entry in a Break Dialog
	      Window will open a popup menu from which the appropriate
	      (interpreted) module can be selected.</item>
	    <item>Auto Attach options can now be changed using
	      the buttons in the left part of the Monitor Window, not
	      only by the corresponding menu buttons.</item>
	    <item>Buttons for enabling and disabling all breakpoints
	      have been added.</item>
	    <item>View Module Window keyboard shortcuts corrected.
	    </item>
	  </list>
            Own Id: OTP-4284
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section><title>Debugger 3.0</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Debugger can now handle <c>try-catch</c>. This meant
            large parts of the interpreter had to be rewritten. Also,
            some small changes to the GUI have been made.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-5730</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section><title>Debugger 2.3.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
            <p>It is now possible to encrypt the debug information in
            Beam files, to help keep the source code secret. See the
            documentation for compile on how to provide the key for
            encrypting, and the documentation for beam_lib on how to
            provide the key for decryption so that tools such as the
            Debugger, Xref, or Cover can be used.</p>
            <p>The <c>beam_lib:chunks/2</c> functions now accepts an
            additional chunk type '<c>compile_info</c>' to retrieve
            the compilation information directly as a term. (Thanks
            to Tobias Lindahl.)</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-5460 Aux Id: seq9787</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section><title>Debugger 2.3.2</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            The graphic applications now search for HTML
            documentation in the correct place.</p>
          <p>
            Own Id: OTP-5381</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section><title>Debugger 2.3.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Package support has been added to the debugger. Thanks to
	    Richard Carlsson in the HiPE project.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-5255</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Updated to handle the latest version of the compiler.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-5265</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>
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