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      <year>2011</year>
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    <title>Observer Release Notes History</title>
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  </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>

