View Source Event Tracer (ET) Release Notes
This document describes the changes made to the Event Tracer (ET) system from
version to version. The intention of this document is to list all
incompatibilities as well as all enhancements and bugfixes for every release of
Event Tracer (ET). Each release of Event Tracer (ET)thus constitutes one
section in this document. The title of each section is the version number of
Event Tracer (ET).
ET 1.7.1
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- The dependencies for this application are now listed in the app file. - Own Id: OTP-18831 Aux Id: PR-7441 
- Dialyzer warnings due to type specs added in - dbghave been eliminated.- Own Id: OTP-18860 
Improvements and New Features
- The documentation has been migrated to use Markdown and ExDoc. - Own Id: OTP-18955 Aux Id: PR-8026 
ET 1.7
Improvements and New Features
- Deprecates - dbg:stop_clear/0because it is simply a function alias to- dbg:stop/0- Own Id: OTP-18478 Aux Id: GH-6903 
ET 1.6.5
Improvements and New Features
- Fixed warnings in code matching on underscore prefixed variables. - Own Id: OTP-17385 Aux Id: OTP-17123 
ET 1.6.4
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- The scroll bar of the et_viewer window could not be dragged all the way to the top of the window. It would always stop at the second event. This is now corrected. - Own Id: OTP-15463 Aux Id: ERL-780 
ET 1.6.3
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- Improved documentation. - Own Id: OTP-15190 
ET 1.6.2
Improvements and New Features
- Calls to - erlang:get_stacktrace()are removed.- Own Id: OTP-14861 
ET 1.6.1
Improvements and New Features
- Tools are updated to show Unicode atoms correctly. - Own Id: OTP-14464 
ET 1.6
Improvements and New Features
- Update selector to utilize new garbage collection trace tags. - Own Id: OTP-13545 
ET 1.5.1
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- The - etapplication must continue to use- erlang:now/0in order to obtain timestamps that are consistent with timestamps obtained from tracing. The application has been updated to suppress the warning for- erlang:now/0.- Own Id: OTP-12780 
ET 1.5
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications: - 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- A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP. - (Thanks to Tobias Schlager) - Own Id: OTP-11744 
Improvements and New Features
- Removed gs based applications and gs based backends. The - observerapplication replaces the removed applications.- * POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY * - Own Id: OTP-10915 
ET 1.4.4.5
Improvements and New Features
- The encoding of the - notes.xmlfile has been changed from latin1 to utf-8 to avoid future merge problems.- Own Id: OTP-11310 
ET 1.4.4.4
Improvements and New Features
- Use erlang:demonitor(Ref, [flush]) where applicable. Thanks to Loïc Hoguin. - Own Id: OTP-11039 
- Rename and document lists:zf/2 as lists:filtermap/2. Thanks to Anthony Ramine. - Own Id: OTP-11078 
ET 1.4.4.3
Improvements and New Features
- 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. - Own Id: OTP-10630 
ET 1.4.4.2
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- Fix typo in ET doc (Thanks to Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez) - Own Id: OTP-10119 
ET 1.4.4.1
Improvements and New Features
- The GS applications is now deprecated and will be removed in the R16 release. The following GS-based applications have been superseded by the Observer application and will removed in R16: Appmon, Pman, Tv. - * POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY * - Own Id: OTP-9907 
ET 1.4.4
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- Dialyzer warnings have been fixed. - Own Id: OTP-9470 
ET 1.4.3
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- The popup window 'contents viewer' did not display properly on Windows. - Own Id: OTP-9238 
ET 1.4.2
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- Fix error when module et was used in et_selector trace patterns. - Own Id: OTP-8904 
ET 1.4.1
Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions
- Fixed broken links in the documentation. - Own Id: OTP-8796 
Improvements and New Features
- Fixed gui crash on windows. - Own Id: OTP-8830 
ET 1.4
Improvements and New Features
- Thanks to Olle Mattsson the GUI parts are rewritten to use - wxWidgets. For the time being it is still possible to use the old- GSbased version of the tool, but it is deprecated. The- wxWidgetsbased version is started by default.- A print function has been added, in order to enable printing of sequence charts. - A new tutorial has been added to the documentation. It is based on - Jayson Vantuyl'sarticle- http://souja.net/2009/04/making-sense-of-erlangs-event-tracer.html.- The functions - et:trace_me/4and- et:trace_me/5has been introduced in order to replace the deprecated functions- et:report_event/4and- et:report_event/5. Hopefully the new names makes it a little more obvious what the intended usage of the functions are.- The - max_eventsconfiguration parameter to- et_vieweris not used any more. Now the event cache in the- Vieweronly contains those events that actually are displayed in the GUI.- Own Id: OTP-8058 
ET 1.3.3
Improvements and New Features
- The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the HTML frames are removed. - Own Id: OTP-8201 
ET 1.3.2
Improvements and New Features
- The start module in the app file has been corrected. - Own Id: OTP-8078 
ET 1.3.1
Improvements and New Features
- Changed copyright - Own Id: OTP-7830 
ET 1.3
Improvements and New Features
- Adjusted copyright - Own Id: OTP-6985 
ET 1.0.1
Improvements and New Features
- Document source changed from SGML to XML. - Own Id: OTP-6774 
ET 1.0.0.1
Improvements and New Features
- Minor Makefile changes. - Own Id: OTP-6689 
Event Tracer (ET) 1.0
Improvements and new features
This is the first release of the Event Tracer (ET) as a stand-alone
application separated from the Megaco application.