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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">

<chapter>
  <header>
    <copyright>
      <year>2006</year>
      <year>2007</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.

  The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ericsson AB.
    </legalnotice>

    <title>Observer Release Notes History</title>
    <prepared>otp_appnotes</prepared>
    <docno>nil</docno>
    <date>nil</date>
    <rev>nil</rev>
  </header>

  <section>
    <title>Observer 0.9.6 (OTP R10B)</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Bugfix: <c>ttb:p/2</c> can now take the flag <c>clear</c>.</p>
          <p>Bugfix: <c>ttb:format/1,2</c> can now handle trace of
            messages sent to a process addressed with
            <c>{ProcName,Node}</c>.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4967</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p><c>crashdump_viewer</c>: Atoms are shown 100 at the time
            to avoid the browser hanging/timing out.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5027</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p><c>crashdump_viewer</c>:</p>
          <list type="bulleted">
            <item>The 'Name' and 'Spawned as' columns are merged into
             one column showing name if it exists, else initial
             function.</item>
            <item>Added more warnings if the dump is truncated.</item>
            <item>To avoid that the browser times out during
             reading/translating when the dump is really big, a
             temporary page is shown which redirects to the start page
             when ready.</item>
          </list>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4975</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Observer 0.9.5 (R9C)</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Minor updates to <c>etop</c> GUI.</p>
          <p><c>etop</c> now also works on <c>nonode@nohost</c> using
            <c>etop:start()</c>.</p>
          <p>Process info is added to the "to-process" in <c>send</c>
            trace messages</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4735</p>
          <p></p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p><c>crashdump_viewer</c> can now handle dumps created on
            Windows.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4750</p>
          <p></p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Observer 0.9.4</title>

    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Added new tool: <c>crashdump_viewer</c>.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4654</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Observer 0.9.3 (OTP R9B)</title>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>
          <p>Added <c>priv</c> directory.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-4527</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Observer 0.9.2 (OTP R8B)</title>
    <p>This was Observer with the <c>crashdump_viewer</c> added for
      OTP R8B.</p>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Observer 0.9.1 (OTP R7B01/R8B)</title>
    <p>This was the first version of Observer for OTP R7B01 and R8B.</p>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Observer 0.9 (OTP-R9B)</title>
    <p>The Observer application is a collection of tools for tracing and
      investigation of distributed systems.</p>

    <section>
      <title>Known bugs and problems</title>
      <list type="bulleted">
        <item>Observer is still in beta stadium.</item>
      </list>
    </section>
  </section>
</chapter>