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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">

<chapter>
  <header>
    <copyright>
      <year>2007</year><year>2016</year>
      <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
    </copyright>
    <legalnotice>
      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>

    <title>EDoc Release Notes</title>
    <prepared>otp_appnotes</prepared>
    <docno>nil</docno>
    <date>nil</date>
    <rev>nil</rev>
    <file>notes.xml</file>
  </header>
  <p>This document describes the changes made to the EDoc
    application.</p>

<section><title>Edoc 0.9</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>To support stable builds, <c>edoc</c> no longer
	    includes time stamps in the footer for generated
	    files.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-14277</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>Edoc 0.8.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> Document the function tags <c>@param</c> and
	    <c>@returns</c>. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13930 Aux Id: PR-1175 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.8</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>Improve types and specs in OTP documentation generated
	    from Erlang source files. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13720 Aux Id: ERL-120 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.19</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> Handle typed record fields. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13558</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.18</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> Assign correct names to list arguments. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13234 Aux Id: ERL-63 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Unless the <c>sort_functions</c> option is <c>true</c>,
	    <c>edoc_layout</c> does not sort functions.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13302</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.17</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Remove functionality related to packages</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12431</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.16</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Maps: Properly align union typed assoc values in
	    documentation</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12190</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.15</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix spec to doc generation from erl_docgen and edoc for
	    maps</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12058</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.14</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> The default encoding for Erlang source files is now
	    UTF-8. As a temporary measure to ease the transition from
	    the old default of Latin-1, if EDoc encounters byte
	    sequences that are not valid UTF-8 sequences, EDoc will
	    re-try in Latin-1 mode. This workaround will be removed
	    in a future release. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12008</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.13</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <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>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.12.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The encoding of the <c>notes.xml</c> file has been
	    changed from latin1 to utf-8 to avoid future merge
	    problems.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11310</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.12</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>EDoc sometimes failed to associate a comment with the
	    preceding type declaration. This bug has been fixed.
	    (Thanks to Serge Aleynikov for reporting the bug.) </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10866</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> Miscellaneous updates due to Unicode support. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10820</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.11</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> Since EDoc 0.7.7 (R14B02) separate values of union
	    types can be annotated. However, the parser has hitherto
	    chosen not to add the necessary parentheses due to
	    backwards compatibility. </p> <p> From this release on
	    code traversing the output of <c>edoc_parser</c> needs to
	    take care of parentheses around separate values of union
	    types. Examples of such code are layout modules and
	    doclet modules. </p>
          <p>
	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10195</p>
        </item>
        <item>
	    <p> Support for Unicode has been implemented. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10302</p>
        </item>
        <item>
	    <p>Where necessary a comment stating encoding has been
	    added to Erlang files. The comment is meant to be removed
	    in Erlang/OTP R17B when UTF-8 becomes the default
	    encoding. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10630</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.10</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    List behaviour callbacks in Edoc when using -callback
	    attribute. (Thanks to Magnus Henoch.)</p>
          <p>
	    Added special case for file names under Windows. (Thanks
	    to Beads Land-Trujillo.)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10174</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.9.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Miscellaneous documentation build updates</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9813</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.9</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p><c>no_return</c> is a new built-in type. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9350</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    synchronized with edoc development version</p>
          <p>
	    forgot to ensure that xmerl is found in path for
	    include_lib to work</p>
          <p>
	    fix -spec declaration that doesn't work in R13B04</p>
          <p>
	    eliminate warnings about unused imports</p>
          <p>
	    removed CVS-keywords from source files (Thanks to Richard
	    Carlsson )</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9463</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add a proplist() type</p>
          <p>
	    Recently I was adding specs to an API and found that
	    there is no canonical proplist() type defined. (Thanks to
	    Ryan Zezeski)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9499</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Removed some never-matching clauses reported by dialyzer
	    Fix macro expansion in comments following Erlang types
	    URI-escape bytes as two hex digits always (reported by
	    Alfonso De Gregorio) Updated author e-mail Recognize some
	    more URI schemas in wiki text, in particular https
	    (Thanks to Richard Carlsson)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9590</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.8</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix infinite loop for malformed edoc input</p>
          <p>
	    When processing an edoc comment with ``` in it, if the
	    comment ends without a matching ''' then an infinite loop
	    occurs in the function edoc_wiki:strip_empty_lines/2.
	    This change fixes that by adding a clause to return from
	    the function upon the end of the comment input. This
	    allows an error to be thrown to indicate the problem,
	    which is the same behaviour as leaving either `` or `
	    unmatched. (Thanks to Taylor Venable)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9165</p>
        </item>
        <item>
	    <p> Bugs concerning the option
	    <c>report_missing_types</c> that was added in EDoc-0.7.7
	    have been corrected: the option was misspelled in the
	    source, and local definitions as well as the function
	    tags <c>@private</c> and <c>@hidden</c> were not handled
	    correctly. (Thanks to Manolis Papadakis.) </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9301</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.7</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> Add encoding when parsing Wiki text. EDoc used to
	    fail on strings such as "äåö". (Thanks to Richard
	    Carlsson.) </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9109</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> It is now possible to use Erlang specifications and
	    types in EDoc documentation. Erlang specifications and
	    types will be used unless there is also a function
	    specification (<c>@spec</c>) or a type alias
	    (<c>@type</c>) with the same name. In the current
	    implementation the placement of <c>-spec</c> matters: it
	    should be placed where the <c>@spec</c> would otherwise
	    have been placed. </p>
	    <p>Not all Erlang types are included in the
	    documentation, but only those exported by some
	    <c>export_type</c> declaration or used by some documented
	    Erlang specification (<c>-spec</c>). </p>
	    <p> There is currently no support for overloaded Erlang
	    specifications. </p>
	    <p> The syntax definitions of EDoc have been augmented to
	    cope with most of the Erlang types. (But we recommend
	    that Erlang types should be used instead.) </p>
	    <p> <c>edoc:read_source()</c> takes one new option,
	    <c>report_missing_types</c>. <c>edoc_layout:module()</c>
	    takes one new option, <c>pretty_printer</c>. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8525</p>
        </item>
        <item>
	    <p> The <c>edoc_lib</c> module is meant to be private,
	    but since it is referred to from other man pages it has
	    been included in the OTP documentation. The modifications
	    introduced in this ticket make all functions private
	    except those referred to from other pages. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-9110</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.8</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Compiler warnings were eliminated.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8855</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.7</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>Edoc now uses the new API functions to <c>inets</c>
	    instead of the deprecated ones.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8749</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.6</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>The documentation is now possible to build in an open
	    source environment after a number of bugs are fixed and
	    some features are added in the documentation build
	    process. </p>
	    <p>- The arity calculation is updated.</p>
	    <p>- The module prefix used in the function names for
	    bif's are removed in the generated links so the links
	    will look like
	    "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#append_element-2"
	    instead of
	    "http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#erlang:append_element-2".</p>
	    <p>- Enhanced the menu positioning in the html
	    documentation when a new page is loaded.</p>
	    <p>- A number of corrections in the generation of man
	    pages (thanks to Sergei Golovan)</p>
	    <p>- The legal notice is taken from the xml book file so
	    OTP's build process can be used for non OTP
	    applications.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8343</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.5</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>Edoc 0.7.6.4</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Miscellaneous updates.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8190</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p>The copyright notices have been updated.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7851</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Minor updates.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7642</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Correction to work with new versions of STDLIB that no
	    longer has the <c>erl_internal:obsolete/3</c> function.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7539</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Edoc 0.7.6</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>Edoc 0.7.5</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Minor updates, mostly cosmetic.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-7243</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

  <section>
    <title>Edoc 0.7.3</title>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Dialyzer warnings were eliminated.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6737</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>EDoc 0.7.2</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Some missing files have been added:
            <c><![CDATA[~/include/edoc_doclet.hrl]]></c>, <c><![CDATA[~/priv/edoc.dtd]]></c>,
            <c><![CDATA[~/priv/erlang.png]]></c></p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6457</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <list type="bulleted">
            <item>Undefined macros only cause warnings, not errors.</item>
            <item>New, built-in <c><![CDATA[@version]]></c> macro.</item>
            <item>Documented the <c><![CDATA[@docfile]]></c> and <c><![CDATA[@headerfile]]></c>
             generic tags.</item>
            <item>Added recognition of <c><![CDATA["TODO:"]]></c> as a wiki
             equivalent for <c><![CDATA[@todo]]></c> tags.</item>
            <item>Added documentation about overview pages.</item>
            <item><c><![CDATA['where']]></c> and <c><![CDATA[',']]></c> are allowed as
             separators in specs.</item>
            <item>Corrected ambiguity in spec grammar (possible
             incompatibility issue - parentheses may need to be added
             in some cases, in existing code).</item>
            <item>Experimental (and undocumented) support for
            <c><![CDATA[@param]]></c> and <c><![CDATA[@return]]></c> tags and corresponding
            <c><![CDATA["..."]]></c> annotations on <c><![CDATA[@spec]]></c> parameters.</item>
          </list>
          <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6568</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>EDoc 0.7.1</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Fixed some broken links in the documentation.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-6419</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>EDoc 0.7.0</title>
    <p>Miscellaneous changes.</p>
  </section>
</chapter>