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2beta1 (r2_2b1) ============================= Notes: This release fixes all known bugs. It has been tested on various platforms and computer architectures. Mac OS X and Sparc Solaris are now fully supported. New features improve the user experience. Simplified release system: EJP Tracer and Presenter are now versioned and released together. Presenter changes: - Fixed bug #925446 "Method ID of exit event (xxx) does not match entry event (yyy)". The parser was not correctly detecting when a method was entered with a given version of a loaded class, and exited with another version. - Fixed bug #928574 "fails to load (EOFException in RandomAccessFile)". Improved classloader parser performance by buffering input. - File(s) to open can be specified on the command line. - Support for big (>2GB) .ejp files. - When deep-expanding nodes, a progress dialog is now displayed. The operation can be stopped at any time by clicking on the Cancel button. - Improved screenshots of displayed tree (the whole tree is now exported, not only the part viewable in the scroll pane). - Implemented export of displayed tree to HMTL, XML and CSV. - File chooser dialog remembers last browsed directory (only during the application lifetime). - Nodes no longer display method parameters, but show "..." instead. This was done to hopefully improve readability. - Times of entry into a method and exit from it are now displayed in node tooltips. - Java files are compiled with the debug (-g) option. - Exception stack traces are displayed in Log window. - Support for big-endian files. Tracer changes: - Fixed bug #904736 "Assertion fails in stl_alloc.h, line 291". - Fixed bug #926898 "Assertion failed: m_methodIdStack.back() == methodId_". - Implemented RFE #1056040 "Mac OS X Support". - Applied patch #899847 (ability to specify location of filter.cfg). Thanks to Jon Nall. - Fixed a bug where some threads could be incorrectly named. - Fixed a crash where output file was closed and renamed before all events were written to it. - New output files format (incompatible with previous versions). - Removed dependency to zlib. - New file naming scheme: when a thread is created, its file name extension is ".ejp.!"; when the thread is terminated, its file name extension is changed to ".ejp". - Support for GCC 3.4. - Sample startup script and filters for JBoss. - Fully tested on the following environments: * ppc-darwin * sparc-solaris * x86-linux * x86-solaris * x86-win32-cygwin * x86-win32-mingw

2004/02/12, Tracer 2.1beta2 (r2_1b2) ==================================== Notes: This release fixes an assertion failure introduced by previous release. Generated trace files are compatible with EJP Presenter v2.0beta1 or later. Changes: - Fixed a bug (assertion exception during application shutdown) introduced by new filter implementation (SF bug #895888). - Fixed EOL of logs on Win32. - Added a documentation note in filter.cfg about the implicit final include rule. - Raised size of output file buffers to 4kb to improve performance. 2004/02/07, Tracer 2.1beta1 (r2_1b1) ==================================== Notes: This release introduces a major (and most requested) feature: the filtering of profiled classes. It makes it reasonable to profile e.g. J2EE applications inside their containers. Class filter rules are defined using simple configuration files (see a sample in bin/filter.cfg). This release also fixes the crash reported in JBoss, Catalina and some other multi-threaded applications. Generated trace files are compatible with EJP Presenter v2.0beta1 or later. Changes: - Implemented customizable class filters to restrict data acquisition (SF RFE #873411). - Fixed a very common bug (aka JBoss/Catalina bug) occurring in multi-threaded applications during startup of some specific threads (SF bugs #873770 and probably #660473). - Handled unloading of classes and methods by the JVM (SF RFE #885469). - Reactivated suppression of time spent in profiler. - Differed file creation and buffered file output to improve performance. As a drawback, memory used by the Tracer increases significantly. Will see if this is problem in some environments. 2004/01/07, Presenter 2.1beta1 (r2_1b1) ======================================= Notes: Fixes I/O errors occurring while loading huge files into the Presenter. Adds a new filter that hides less significant nodes. This release is compatible with trace files created by EJP Tracer v2.0beta1 or later. Changes: - Replaced memory-mapped buffers with random access files to fix an error when opening big files (1GB or more). - Fixed invalid (-1) body times in leaf nodes. - Added a new filter: Remove-non-significant, that hides nodes which time spent is bellow a customizable threshold. - Made filters no longer customizable once a view is created.

2003/12/15, Presenter 2.0beta1 (r2_0b1) ======================================= Notes: New lazy parser feature. Tree nodes are loaded into memory and processed only when opened. This results in instant loading of profiles, whatever their size is, and solves most memory problems. User experience was improved with keyboard accelerators in many places of the Presenter. This release only handles trace files created by EJP Tracer v2.0beta1 or later. Changes: - Handled files now end with ".ejp". - Lazy parser. Allows for instant and little memory-consuming loading of trace profiles. - Keyboard accelerators: + (expand), - (collapse) and * (expand all) for call call tree navigation. - Mnemonics and default buttons for New View and Run Program dialogs; ESCAPE key closes the dialogs. - Mnemonics and accelerators for many menu items. 2003/12/15, Tracer 2.0beta1 (r2_0b1) ==================================== Notes: This release contains fixes for some major bugs. It has also been heavily refactored to improve maintainability. Generated trace files can only be opened by EJP Presenter v2.0beta1 or later. Changes: - Generated files now end with ".ejp". - New indexed encoding of method events allow for lazy parsing by the Presenter. Zlib compression is disabled for now, so generated files are very big. - Updated STL allocator to fix rare access violations on Win32 with MinGW. - Better correction of the time spent in profiler. - Thread-safe access to disk to prevent data corruption and to the console. - Thread names are now always correctly obtained. 2003/08/06, Presenter 1.0beta3 (r1_0b3) ======================================= Notes: New feature: package filter. It is now possible to remove from display, the nodes for events on methods declared in classes from specific packages. Excluded package list can be customized for each view. Changes: - New Common.Remove-packages filter to hide specific Java packages. - Initial implementation of a lazy parser. Such a parser does not read whole files at once, but rather collects the information needed to display the first tree level. Additional information is read from file as nodes are expanded by the user. This early implementation results in lower memory usage, but is currently not acceptable in terms of speed because of the file format used. An optimized, indexed, encoding of profiles is under design and should address this issue. For this reason, the lazy parser is disabled by default for the moment.

Refactorings implied in its implementation resulted in one minor feature being temporarily disabled: the progress bar no longer shows up during parsing. 2003/08/05, Tracer 1.0beta4 (r1_0b4) ==================================== Notes: This version introduces a new ID entropy reduction system that results in lower overhead on speed and memory during profiling. It also addresses some compilation and execution issues. Changes: - Simplified the ID entropy reduction system. Should result in performance enhancement and lower memory overhead during profiling. - Fixed a compilation problem under Solaris with GCC: added the "-mimpure-text" command-line option. Thanks to Richard Collingridge for reporting the problem and suggesting this solution. - Updated run scripts for Win32. When started up from another directory than bin/, they now correctly find required libraries. - Updated run scripts for Unik-likes. Defined environment variables are now exported. - Updated instructions for building the native library. Added a notice about libz.a presence on Solaris (thanks to Richard Collingridge for reporting this potential issue). 2003/06/13, Presenter 1.0beta2 (r1_0b2) ======================================= Notes: Requires EJP Tracer v1.0beta3 or later. Changes: - Added new feature: default filters. A set of default filters can now be specified in the settings. Those are automatically activated when creating new views. - Updated for new multi-threading support of EJP Tracer v1.0beta3. Note that this version is no longer compatible with profiles generated by EJP Tracer versions before 1.0beta3. Thus, support for old profiles could easily be added if it is required by users. - Fixed initial search path for Tracer output files. - Fixed displayed ratios for 0-second profiles. - Minor changes in Funnel filters order. 2003/06/13, Tracer 1.0beta3 (r1_0b3) ==================================== Notes: Requires EJP Presenter v1.0beta2 or later. Changes: - Added multi-threading support. EJP Tracer now generates one output file per thread and safely protects shared resources with JVM monitors. This should close bugs 628914, 660473 and possibly more. Thanks to Sebastien Caille for the initial implementation of thread contexts. - Fixed correction of time spent in the profiler agent's code for more accurate

timings. - Added a BUILDING.txt file with detailed instructions for supported platforms. - Modified makefiles for Solaris, Linux, Win32-MinGW and Win32-MSVC++ to factorize common parts. - Added a Win32-MSVC++ project for building zlib as a multi-threaded static library. - Applied various refactorings to source code to make it look more like C++. - Included Java samples for tests. 2003/05/06, Tracer 1.0beta2 (r1_0b2) ==================================== Notes: Includes a pre-built DLL for Win32. Addresses one of the most reported bugs: method list size limitation. Improves performance. Changes: - Added a MinGW makefile. - Fixed linux makefile. - Included win32 DLL to release script. - Fixed method list size limitation by using a STL map. Thanks to Dirk Hoffmann for suggesting and implementing the solution. 2002/03/23, Presenter 1.0beta1 (r1_0b1) ======================================= Notes: First public release. 2002/03/23, Tracer 1.0beta1 (r1_0b1) ==================================== Notes: First public release.