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JProfiler: 5.1.3
 (2008-04-29)
install4j: 4.1.1
 (2008-04-24)
exe4j: 4.1
 (2008-04-03)
jclasslib: 3.0
 (2005-01-14)
 
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Release 5.1.3 (2008-04-29)
 
New features:
  • Support for Mac OS X Java 6 DP9
  • Support for Netbeans 6.1
Bugs fixed:
  • HPROF dialogs were not correctly sized so that the OK button was sometimes clipped
  • Fixed problems with Netbeans integration
  • JProfiler MBean was garbage collected under certain circumstances
Release 5.1.2 (2008-01-17)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • The fix for "Instrumentation of some native methods" in 5.1.1 lead to other VerifyErrors that are fixed in this release.
  • Heap walker, reference view: the "tree of outgoing references" view mode did not show any data if strings with certain characters were among the outgoing references.
Release 5.1.1 (2008-01-10)
 
New features:
  • Call graph: optional display of average times, configurable in the view settings
Bugs fixed:
  • NPE was thrown in JNDI interception if the parameters of a JNDI query were null
  • Recorded allocation counts for objects created in native code was wrong
  • HPROF options dialog was only displayed if the file name had an .hprof extension
  • Hot Spots view: deselecting "Show average values in brackets" in the view settings broke the table layout
  • Instrumentation of some native methods when profiling with Java 6+ produced a VerifyError
  • Monitor usage statistics included monitors from VM internal finalizer thread
  • Fixed race condition in the JProfiler GUI
  • Fixed some display problems if the JProfiler GUI was run with Java 1.4
Release 5.1 (2007-11-07)
New features:
  • Tree views of incoming and outgoing references in the heap walker reference view
  • Cumulated references as a tree table in the heap walker reference view
  • Action to select all exclusively referenced objects in the heap walker reference view
  • Type resolution of object arrays in memory views and heap walker when profiling with Java 5+ (JVMTI)
  • Reworked internal source viewer with file structure display, syntax coloring and search
  • Bundled IDE integration for IDEA 7
  • IDE integration for eclipse 3.4 (M2)
  • IDE integration for Netbeans 6
  • Added option to remove unreferenced objects when loading HPROF snapshots
  • Added a fixed summary row at the bottom of the All Objects and Recorded Objects views
  • Added context menu in thread history view to switch to single threads in the call tree or hot spots view
  • Average time is now a separate sortable column in the CPU hot spots view
  • View and thread filters are now persistent on a per-session basis
  • The main toolbar can now display icons with text or small icons
  • External source viewer: source files which are contained in JAR files are now extracted to temporary files before the external viewer is invoked
  • Added "Show Source" and "Show Bytecode" actions to stack trace lists in the thread monitor view, the monitor views and the allocation spot description in heap walker
  • Added context menu in object comparison to create allocation call tree and allocation hot spot comparisons for the selected class
  • Session settings: if an executable JAR file is selected for profiling, the Class-Path manifest entry can be added to the class path automatically
  • The "node details" dialog in all tree dialogs is now non-modal
  • Added expansion popups in hot spot views
  • View filters in hot spots views now support all hot spot types. Previously, only methods were supported.
  • Selection step labels in the heap walker selection description are now hyperlinks to the first occurrence of the corresponding object set
  • Heap walker reference view: Added view source and view bytecode actions to the cumulated reference views
  • The "Record CPU data" and "Record allocation data" actions can now be invoked manually as well when there are triggers that start and stop recording
  • Integration wizard for install4j/exe4j projects
  • Integration wizard for BEA Weblogic 10
  • Integration wizard for JBoss 5
  • Integration wizard for Apache Geronimo 2
  • Integration wizard for Caucho Resin 3.1
  • API: added com.jprofiler.api.agent.interceptor.PayloadInfo.discardTime(). This can be called if no timing information is desired for an interceptor type.
Bugs fixed:
  • Clicking on Auto-Update in the status bar in the class tracker did not retrieve new data
  • Source viewer did not support secondary top-level classes with file scope
  • Numbers next to the bar in the hot spot view could be cut off
  • Table views in the heap walker did not have action for "Use selected objects"
  • java.lang.Class was not present in the package aggregation level of the heap walker
  • eclipse integration: source navigation to inner classes was broken
  • Disconnecting and reconnecting to a remote JVM when dynamic views were frozen lead to inconsistent state in the GUI
  • Fixed integer overflow in monitor usage statistics
  • Classes with varargs-style main method could not be profiled
  • Wrong units were used in the difference column of the object views when the primary measure was set to "shallow size"
Release 5.0.1 (2007-07-27)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • Data in call tracer and monitor history views was not saved to snapshots under some circumstances
  • Uninstaller did not work when JProfiler was running with Java 1.4
  • eclipse 3.1 integration: source navigation did not work for some project configurations
  • Netbeans integration: fixed several GUI problems
  • API samples did not work with floating licenses
  • HPROF snapshots with a file extension other than .hprof could not be loaded
  • Fixed a rare crash in the profiling agent
  • The entry for "calls to filtered classes" is no longer shown in the CPU hot spots view
Release 5.0 (2007-04-27)
New features:
  • Powerful triggers and actions
  • Support for reading and writing HPROF memory snapshot files
  • VM telemetries overhaul with additional VM telemetries
  • Redesigned session settings
  • Call tracer view
  • eclipse integration: support for WTP launch configurations
  • JProfiler MBean for controlling the profiling agent
  • Native methods can be instrumented when profiling with Java 6+
  • Primitive data types can be captured by heap snapshots when using Java 6+
  • More flexible filter settings for method call recording
  • Custom profiling settings templates
  • Option to disable all filters when sampling is used
  • eclipse integration: support for eclipse 3.3M6
  • eclipse integration: support for equinox launch configurations
  • eclipse plugin is bundled as a feature
  • Improved JVM search in setup wizard and general settings dialog ("Search common locations")
Bugs fixed:
  • Expanded the number of allowed interceptors to 32768. Previously, only 255 interceptors were usable.
Release 4.3.2 (2007-02-16)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed problems with "Show source" action for IDE integrations
  • Improved wait thread state recognition for IBM VMs
  • Fixed java.util.concurrent recording issues
  • API: payload types for multiple interceptors of the same class were not unique
  • API: fixed rare custom interceptor instrumentation issues
Release 4.3.1 (2007-01-05)
 
New features:
  • Console and source viewer frames are excluded from modality when JProfiler runs with Java 6
Bugs fixed:
  • Webstart profiling did not work with Java 6 JRE
  • Fixed z-order issues in JProfiler GUI with Java 6
  • Library version mismatch detection was broken
  • NPE for call tree comparisons with filtered call nodes
  • Call tree comparisons with annotated JDBC/JMS/JNDI measurements were broken
  • Fixed rare deadlock on Mac OS X
Release 4.3 (2006-12-12)
New features:
  • Profiling platform with API for writing custom profilers and snapshot analyzers
  • Interceptor API for injecting measurements, adding payload to the call tree and creating new hot spot types
  • EJB 3 support
  • Class tracker view
  • Bundled IDE integration for IDEA 6.0
  • IDE integration for Netbeans 5.5
  • IDE integration for eclipse 3.3 M3
  • Thread name changes are now tracked and updated in the JProfiler GUI
  • Action for highlighting the shortest path to the main node in the reference graph of the heap walker
  • Action to use the selected java.lang.Class objects in the Classes view of the heap walker
  • Option for CPU hot spot comparison to compare total call time or average call time
  • Layouters for the Call Graph view
  • IDEA integration: support for changing the JProfiler executable
  • Netbeans integration: support for profiling external Sun Java System Application Servers
  • Netbeans integration: snapshot comparisons are now accessible
  • Netbeans integration: several smaller bug fixes and enhancements
  • BEA Weblogic 9.2 integration wizard
  • Sun Java System Application Server 9 integration wizard
  • Glassfish Application Server V1 and V2 integration wizards
  • IBM Websphere 6.1 integration wizard
  • Apache Geronimo integration wizard
  • Tomcat 6.x integration wizard
  • Backup config files in the Sun Java System Application Server and IBM Websphere integration wizards
Bugs fixed:
  • A StackOverflowError occurred if agent.jar was not in not on the boot classpath, now a NoClassDefFoundError is thrown
  • Integer overflow could occur for garbage collected class instance counts in very large heaps
  • Server in the profiling agent was not robust enough, now it is possible to reconnect if the connection was broken due to a network error
  • Fixed race condition when profiling with the IBM JVM
  • java.util.concurrent support in the Threads section did not work with Java 1.6
  • Fixed a rare race condition that could lead to a crash at startup
  • Console window was not removed from the window list when closed with the X button
  • Live instance reference in the reference graph of the heap walker could be missing when not using the full GC option
  • Hotspots could be missing in the CPU hot spot comparison if the hot spot was below the internal threshold in one of the snapshots
  • Differencing in package aggregation level was broken
  • "Hide calls" checkbox in call graph view settings was not persistent
  • Method node selection dialog in call graph displayed wrong time unit
  • Cross-platform console did not support overwriting current line with \r
  • stack trace lists in threads section rendered J2EE components and URLs with internal class names
  • thread name selector threw exception when entering some special characters
Release 4.2.2 (2006-09-25)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • eclipse integration: environment variable modifications were not correctly handled by the JProfiler plugin
  • Snapshot comparisons: could not compare arrays in allocation tree and allocation hot spot comparison
  • Session ID was not re-generated when copying a session
  • Loading snapshots with 100,000s of threads could be very slow
  • Workaround for corrupted snapshots
  • Export ant task did not work with some JVMs
  • Command line export: no default liveness type for allocation views
  • Command line export: an exception was printed when exporting from a snapshot containing a heap snapshot
Release 4.2.1 (2006-04-21)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed wrong percentage values for very large total times in the hot spots view
  • IDE integrations did not work on Solaris x86, HP-UX and AIX
  • Library version mismatch detection was broken
  • All objects view and recorded objects view: wrong column headers for snapshots where shallow size was selected as the primary measure
  • All objects view and recorded objects view: wrong columns for class nodes in the package aggregation level when shallow size was selected as the primary measure
  • command line export of allocation tree and hotspots: liveness type was ignored if no class or package selection was specified
Release 4.2 (2006-04-21)
New features:
  • Support for AIX (AIX 5.2/5.3 on PPC)
  • Support for HP-UX (HP-UX 11i on PA_RISC)
  • Support for Intel Macs
  • Facility for comparing saved snapshots
  • Command line export (and ant task) for saved snapshots
  • Command line comparison (and ant task) for saved snapshots
  • Class nodes in the reference graph of the heap walker
  • Support for finding classloader-related memory leaks
  • IDE integration for JDeveloper 10.1.3
  • IDE integration for IBM RAD 6.x
  • Thread monitor view: display creating thread as well as creation stack trace (JVMTI only)
  • Monitor usage history view: display owner thread and its stack trace for blocking events (JVMTI only)
  • Deadlock detection and monitor usage for the java.util.concurrent package
  • Preserve context when switching aggregation level or thread status in any call tree view
  • Option in the file chooser to export entire call trees rather than just the open nodes
  • Option to open exported files is now in the file chooser and remembered separately for each export format
  • Time and size display is now configurable in the view settings of all relevant views
  • Support for BEA Weblogic 9.1
  • New profiling setting to optionally show system threads
  • Optionally include weak references when searching for path to GC roots in the reference graph of the heap walker
  • Instant feedback in the status line when moving the mouse over edges in the reference graph and the call graph
  • Deadlock detection graph: show possible deadlocks if a thread holding a contended monitor is waiting to be notified
Bugs fixed:
  • Changed default sort mode in the "all objects" and "recorded objects" view to the more intuitive normal ordering
  • Incomplete instrumentation when switching off the java core classes for dynamic instrumentation
  • Thread history view sometimes had parts of threads missing when viewing offline snapshots
  • Windows look and feel fixes
  • Fixed faulty z-ordering of some JProfiler windows on KDE
  • Rare deadlock when switching to the VM telemetry views
  • Profiling settings were not easily accessible in the Netbeans integration
  • More robust snapshot format, fixed rare cases of corrupted snapshot files
Release 4.1.3 (2006-01-10)
 
New features:
  • Support for eclipse 3.2 M4
  • Support for Netbeans 5.0 beta 2
  • Locale-sensitive CSV separator char, can be overridden in bin/jprofiler.vmoptions
Bugs fixed:
  • "Show path to GC root" caused exception in Netbeans 5 integration
  • Time measurement type "estimated CPU times" didn't work correctly with JVMTI
  • Ant task for profiling didn't work in headless environments
  • Invoking "set root" multiple times did not work in call tree
  • Wrong sizes in the recorded objects view for special cases
  • Netbeans integration wizard did not work on Windows if user PATH variable did not exist
  • On reconnecting to a remote application, "profiling settings could not be set" was sometimes displayed
Release 4.1.2 (2005-11-03)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed instability when taking heap snapshots with JVMTI
Release 4.1.1 (2005-10-28)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • Problem with eclipse 3.1 integration
Release 4.1 (2005-10-19)
New features:
  • Support for 64-bit JVMs: Windows/AMD64, Linux/AMD64, Solaris Sparc V9 and Solaris Sparc x64/AMD64
  • Support for Solaris on the x86/x64 architecture
  • Quick search in all tables and trees
  • Package aggregation level as a tree-table view with direct access to classes
  • IDEA 5 integration
  • Netbeans 5 integration
  • Filtering capabilities for monitor contention views
  • Ant integration
  • Redistributable agent: a new conversion wizard helps you distribute the profiling agent to your customer's machines
  • Automatic config file synchronization for remote profiling
  • Percentage threshold in call graph
  • Exclusive view filters
  • Selectable primary measure (instance count or shallow size) for all objects view and recorded objects view
  • Preliminary eclipse 3.2 integration (M2)
  • Allow zip and jar files in the source path
  • Export hot spots as CSV (in addition to XML)
  • Remove IDE integrations when JProfiler is uninstalled
  • Optionally display average value in call tree and hot spots
  • VM telemetry views: current values are displayed in the legend
  • Possibility to define an external source viewer in the general settings
  • New "View"-Menu (instead of the "Edit"-Menu) that is synchronized with the context menu, session settings are now under "Session"
  • More keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard are displayed in the toolbar tool-tips
  • Added inherent time to XML export of call trees
  • Integration between recorded object view and allocation views now also work for packages
  • High contrast color scheme for thread history view (can be activated in bin/jprofiler.vmoptions)
  • Possibility to reconnect if contact with the license server has been lost
  • Integration wizard for Coldfusion MX
  • Integration wizard for Sybase EAServer
  • Integration wizards for all BEA Weblogic start types
Bugs fixed:
  • Several features did not work correctly after reconnecting to a remote session
  • Thread status selector is now automatically switched to "All states" for JDBC, JMS and JNDI hot spots
  • Bookmarks set programmatically didn't work in interactive mode
  • Mac OS X: Apple-Q didn't quit profiled application
  • Do not fail if -Djava.library.path is defined manually
  • better recovery for invalid classes that should be instrumented
  • CSV export in the time view of the heap walker produced empty output
  • Time values are zero in CSV export of VM telemetry views
  • Heap walker: static variables could have wrong content when using JVMTI
  • Recording CPU data should did not reset custom root in call tree
  • Controller.startCPUProfiling in interactive mode was broken
  • JSP component detection did not work if URL splitting was disabled
  • eclipse 3.0 and 3.1 integration: profiling a JUnit Plugin Test did not work
Release 4.0.2 (2005-06-23)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed cumulated reference views for snapshot files recorded with JVMTI (new)
  • Workaround for Java2D crash in graph views
  • Fixed instrumentation problem with certain JSP pages
  • Fixed annotation display in call tree in frozen and snapshot mode
  • Improved robustness of snapshot saving in low memory situations
Release 4.0.1 (2005-06-14)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed a crash when setting view filters (new)
  • Fixed a crash in the agent library
  • Print warning if -Xincgc is enabled for JVMTI
Release 4.0 (2005-06-10)
New features:
  • Measurement of JDBC, JMS and JNDI calls as annotations in the call tree
  • J2EE component detection for servlets, JSPs and EJBs
  • For servlets and JSPs, the call tree can be split for different request URLs
  • Separate hot spot calculation for JDBC, JMS and JNDI calls as well as URL invocations
  • Methods in the profiling API to register custom resolvers for JMS calls and URL invocations
  • Selectable aggregation level for most views: methods, classes, packages and J2EE components
  • Improved call tree views with enhanced visual feedback
  • "Exclusive deep size" calculation in the heap walker
  • Recording and display of object allocation times in the heap walker
  • New "Time" view in the heap walker that shows a time-resolved histogram of allocations
  • New sort modes in the references and data view of the heap walker for exclusive deep size and allocation time
  • Global bookmarks for all time-resolved graph views
  • Bookmarks for profiling events (starting and stopping of CPU and allocation recording)
  • Method in the API to programmatically set bookmarks
  • On-demand profiling: very small overhead if no CPU or allocation data is recorded
  • Profiling with hotspot compiler enabled by default for Java 1.4 and Java 1.5
  • New non-blocking startup mode of the profiled JVM for in-production profiling
  • Support for new profiling interface JVMTI in Java 1.5 and 1.6
  • New "All objects" view that works without recording allocations (JVMTI only)
  • Substantial reduction of memory consumption and performance improvements
  • Configurable timeout for long operations in the heap walker
  • Multiple selection in the cumulated reference views in the heap walker
  • New top-to-bottom hierarchical layout in the reference graph of the heap walker
  • Allocation call tree and allocation hot spot views have class-resolution by default
  • Option to not record primitive data in the heap walker (JVMPI only)
  • New action in the call graph to remove unconnected methods
  • Integration of the recorded objects view with the allocation views
  • Configurable threshold in the call tree view in percent
  • Action in the window menu to close unused console windows
  • Method in the API to save a snapshot when the JVM exits
  • Methods in the API to start and stop thread profiling as well as VM telemetry recording
  • Support for Netbeans 4.1, including free form projects and the bundled Sun Java System Application Server
  • Support for BEA Weblogic 9.0
Bugs fixed:
  • Major performance improvement for the thread history view
  • Integer overflow could lead to negative numbers in the hot spots view
  • Many bug fixes and smaller enhancements in the GUI
  • Many improvements and fixes for the GUI on Mac OS X
  • Fixed stability issues related to finalizers
Release 3.3.2 (2005-05-30)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • eclipse integration: support for eclipse 3.1 M7
  • eclipse integration: exception when profiling eclipse applications
  • eclipse integration: JRE selection for eclipse applications was not recognized correctly
  • exception when quickly opening nodes in the call tree
Release 3.3.1 (2005-03-22)
 
New features:
  • integration wizard for Websphere 6.0
Bugs fixed:
  • eclipse 3.x integration didn't work when default bootpath for JRE installation was switched off
  • view source in the eclipse 3.x integration did not work for multiple projects
  • improved number format for CSV export
  • copying rows in tables showed object references instead of numbers in some views
  • string display in the heap walker was sometimes incorrect
  • redraw problems in deadlock detection graph were fixed
  • fixed overflow in hotspot views that could lead to negative times and percentages
  • setup wizard dialog was too small on Mac OS X
Release 3.3 (2005-01-14)
New features:
  • rewritten eclipse 3.x integration
  • rewritten IDEA 4.x integration
  • IDE integration for JDeveloper
  • IDE integration for Netbeans 4.0
  • considerably reduced memory consumption
  • improved long-term stability for profiling
  • heap walker: in the cumulated incoming reference view, reference holders as well as referenced objects can be displayed and selected
  • option to keep the profiled JVM alive
  • support for Java Web Start 1.5
  • CSV export for graphs
  • enhancements in XML export for trees
  • integration wizard for profiling servers in IBM WSAD
  • integration wizards for Pramati 3.5 and Pramati 4.x application server
  • integration wizard for Websphere 4.0 Advanced Edition
  • integration wizard for Sun Java System Web Server
  • integration wizard for Sun Java System Application Server
  • integration wizard for Oracle 10g Application server
  • integration wizard for Apple WebObjects Developer 5.x
  • snapshot files (*.jps) can be opened from the command line and from the Windows explorer
  • JBuilder IDE integration now supports JBuilder 2005
  • much better appearance of the JProfiler GUI with Windows native look and feel
  • JProfiler GUI now also runs under Java 1.5
Bugs fixed:
  • monitor statistics were broken
  • invalid class files caused a shutdown of the profiled application
  • many bug fixes in the GUI
Release 3.2 (2004-09-16)
New features:
  • optional line number resolution in call trees and hotspot backtraces
  • export views to CSV data and XML
  • integration wizards now support profiling on remote computers
  • new wizards for converting local sessions to remote sessions and offline profiling sessions
  • option in hotspot views to add filtered classes to calling class
  • reference graph: instances have plus and minus icons for outgoing and incoming references. References can now be hidden.
  • method graph: methods have plus icons for incoming and outgoing calls. Methods can now be hidden by deleting them from the graph
  • possibility to search for arbitrary number of garbage collector roots in the reference view of the heap walker
  • possibility to view source files in the reference graph of the heap walker and the method graph
  • digit grouping for numbers in all views
  • separate cumulated and non-cumulated view modes for allocations view in the heap walker
  • library parameter for verbose mode to print out instrumented classes
  • on Windows, the -Xmx setting for JProfiler is now in the file jprofiler.exe.vmoptions
Bugs fixed:
  • resolved possible collision with zlib libraries of other products
  • Weblogic 8.1 SP3 start scripts were not recognized
  • resolved rare deadlock when starting up local sessions
  • rapid keyboard navigation in reference graph of the heap walker lead to an exception
  • snapshots saved with JProfiler 3.0 could not be read by JProfiler 3.1
  • IDE integrations did not work with some JREs
  • IntelliJ IDEA 4.x integration: working directory was not respected
  • reference graph: exception when Strings > 10k were displayed
Release 3.1.2 (2004-08-13)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • fixed stability problems with Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • dynamic instrumentation did not work with Apple 1.4.2 Update 1
  • application server integration wizard did not work on Mac OS X
  • the deep size calculation for object sets in the heap walker could produce wrong results
Release 3.1.1 (2004-08-06)
 
Bugs fixed:
  • fixed net I/O problems with IBM and classic JVMs
Release 3.1 (2004-07-30)
New features:
  • new "net I/O" thread status in CPU and thread views
  • filtering controls for threads in the thread history view
  • selection of collection contents in the reference view of the heap walker
  • selection of multiple objects in the reference view of the heap walker
  • optional display of object IDs in the reference view of the heap walker
  • possibility to sort instances in the reference and data view of the heap walker by shallow and deep size
  • selection of multiple objects in the data view of the heap walker by flagging them
  • calculation of the deep size of object sets in the heap walker
  • expansion popups for long thread names in the thread history view
  • display of shallow and deep size for the current object in the reference view of the heap walker
  • big numbers are formatted with separators in tree views
Bugs fixed:
  • unreferenced objects were accessible in the reference graph of the heap walker even when unreferenced objects were removed for the heap snapshot
  • "show path to root" function in the reference graph of the heap walker could produce incorrect results
  • method graph: fixed inherent time calculation for recursive methods

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