Release 2022.06

Fixes:

• Issue #122 (horizontal scroll bar on the table)
• Issue #187 (avoid displaying filter warning whenever possible)
• Issue #199 (horizontal scroll bar on the table). Related to issue #122
• Issue #200 (cost attribution for inlines in the flat view)
• Issue #204 (font in the column header)
• Issue #207 (call-site symbols for non-supported unicode platforms)
• Issue #209 (ensure consistency of exclusive costs in the thread view)
• Issue #212 (non-empty metrics in the merge databases window)
• Issue #214 (preserving the position of metric columns)

Improvement

• Issue #216 (add an action to allow autofit based on two modes)

Release 2022.03

Fixes

• Fix issue #155 (row selection is not properly refreshed)
• Fix issue #157 (font size on the table)
• Fix issue #161 (horizontal scroll bar on the source pane)
• Fix issue #162 (context menu "Find")
• Fix issue #168 (invalid metric index when merging 2 databases)
• Fix issue #169 (incorrect column size when switching from top-down to bottom-up views)
• Fix issue #177 (truncated row selection)
• Fix issue #179 (three dots in the statistic view)
• Fix issue #188 (incorrect column size in bottom-up and flat views). Related to issue #169
• Fix issue #189 (selected row is not refresh after expanding a node). Related to issue #155
• Fix "Apply to all views" option in the metric view for a merged database
• Fix an error in the preference window
• Fix row resizing in the statistic view

Improvements

• Fix issue #102 (call site icons improvement)
• Partial fix issue #151: simplify metric number in derived metrics
• Double buffering x and y axis in the trace view
• Set maximum database history to 20
• Set the default GPU trace exposure to true

Release 2022.01

New features

• Using NatTable widget instead of SWT table
• Support for more than two databases in a window (issue #135)
• Search a text in the tree table (issue #142)

Fixes

• Issue #20 (partial fix): enhancement for x-axis in the trace view
• Issue #62 (partial fix): render tiny gpu trace when it’s possible
• Issue #101: fix clipped figures in the statistics view
• Issue #112: fix white dots on the trace view (Windows only)
• Issue #113: fix trace view refresh problem (Windows only)
• Issue #118: fix computing the ideal width of table columns
• Issue #121: fix tree image in the bottom-up view
• Issue #126: fix illegal argument exception when flattening a tree
• Issue #127: fix dark mode on macOS
• Issue #128: fix -v option on Linux command line
• Issue #132: fix font color for row selection on macOS
• Issue #134: fix dark mode in Linux GNOME window manager
• Issue #137: fix a spacer in a leaf node
• Issue #138: fix call site icon position in the table
• Issue #139: fix data concurrency problems
• Issue #140: fix row number in the metric view
• Issue #141: ensure consistency between metric view and thread view
• Issue #143: fix support for ISO 8859 character set
• Issue #145: fix the column width when resizing the window or the table

Release 2021.10

Fixes

• Fix issue #107 (hot path selects incorrect tree node)
• Fix issue #106 (handling opening invalid database)
• Fix issue #98 (exception when showing metric window)
• Fix issue #93 (zoom-in/out the depth view)
• Fix issue #116 (issues in combining operations on filtering, zooming and flattening)
• Fix issues with the Preference window

Improvements:

• Disable OSGI locking
• Better error handling in opening databases
• Set the leftmost rendering as the default trace rendering policy

Release 2021.05

Fixes

• Fix issue #80 and #81 (null pointer exception for empty databases)
• Fix issue #79 (CCT filter on the trace view, preserve tree expansion)
• Fix issue #73 (sort direction is not shown on Linux/GTK platforms)
• Fix issue #75 (closing only a window in multiple windows mode)
• Fix issue #85 (keyboard shortcut to minimize the window)
• Fix filtering CCT nodes for thread views
• Fix hot path to select the child node instead of the parent
• Fix merging GPU databases which contain aggregate and derived metrics by deep copying the metric descriptors.
• Fix build script to include notarization for mac
• Fix storing recent open database: store the absolute path, not the relative one.
• Fix SWT resource leaks
• Fix flickering issue on Windows when splitting the hpcviewer window.
• Fix trace view’s color map changes to also refresh other panes and windows

Improvements

• Improve the performance of hot-path operation by not re-revealing the tree path.
• Default window size is 1400x1000 or the screen size
• Trace view: Move depth field into a separate pane so users can change the depth easily even when call stack view is not visible.
• Reduce memory consumption.
• Improve slightly XML parsing performance and avoid using the old Apache xerces. Use Java xml parser instead.
• Code clean-up, remove dead code and remove unused variables

Release 2021.03

Fixes:

• Fix refresh issue for plot graph
• Fix handling GPU database with raw metrics
• Fix link color for light theme desktop
• Fix an error when resizing the windows (MS Windows 10 only)
• Fix buttons in Procedure-color map dialog on MacOS
• Fix the appearance of "Find" dialog
• Fix the launch script (Linux only)
• Fix flickering issue when splitting the tabs
• Fix issue #58 (table is not refreshed on Windows)
• Fix issue #42 (performance problem when sorting a column in the bottom-up view)
• Fix issue #7 (open a database after creating a new window)

Improvements:

• Improve the performance when adding a new user-defined metric
• Improve the performance when zoom in/out
• Improve the default window position to the center
• Improve unflatten action by expanding a tree automatically
• Automatically expand the tree for 2 levels after adding a new derived metric

2021.01 Release

Fixes

• Fix a bug: a view disappears when opening 2 databases.
• Fix no active window issue with TWM window manager
• Fix issue when exclusive metrics numbers are empty (only in Raw metrics)
• Fix issue #55: font in x-axis is too big
• Fix Not show trace view when trace data is not accessible
• Fix x-axis in plot graph when it was not properly refreshed
• Fix Increase/decrease font also affects the text editor
• Fix Capture font change event in call stack view

Improvements:

• Fix performance bug when there's thousands of metrics
• Improve performance for flatten/unflatten trees
• Add GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 in the launch shell script to force displaying scroll bars (Linux only)
• Add feature: zoom in/out in the depth view (issue #52)
• Set the filter window to be a non-modal dialog
• Add apply button in CCT filter window
• Add support for dark theme

Limitation

• Linux x86_64, Linux ppc64le and Windows: Support only Java 8 to 14
• Linux aarch64 and MacOS: Support only Java 11 to 15

2020.12 Release

Bug fixes

• Fix issue #34
• Fix UI thread access by using UI thread in tool control plugin
• Fix header in the thread view
• Fix row height adjustment in the tables (profile and trace views) when the font changes
• Fix an icon creation error when building for Windows
• Fix the location of user histories to the workspace instead of in the install directory
• Fix table selection on Windows
• Fix an issue when mixing Flatten and Zoom actions in the Flat view
• Fix issue #37: resize column width on Windows

Improvements

• Fix issue #38: Rewrite File menus (Open vs Switch database)
• Fix issue #39: tooltips in the trace view

2020.11 Release

New features:

• Command-line build with Maven
• Integration profile and trace views
• New preferences
• New about, info, and log dialog boxes
• New support for log files via slf4j. The logs are stored in the same workspace and can be cleared.
• Store the information of recently opened databases
• Support for prof2 sparse database
• Support for id tuple instead of process or thread-based profile

Improvements:

• Lazily allocate colors so that the viewer works on Windows to display databases of large applications
• Use pure tree content provider instead of mixing item insertion and content provider
• The open database menu doesn't add a database side-by-side. To do this, a new menu "Add database" is introduced
• Same process and/or thread filtering on the trace and profile views. Instead of using Fortran notation, it can filter via regular expression.

Known limitations:

• Only works on Java 8 or newer
• May not work on macOS Big Sur due to Eclipse bugs
• Filtering CCT nodes has no impact on the trace view
• Performance limitation for huge CCT especially when sorting the bottom-up view

2020.11 Release candidate 1

New features:

• Command-line build with Maven
• Integration profile and trace views
• New preferences
• New about, info, and log dialog boxes
• Support for prof2 sparse database
• Support for id tuple instead of process or thread-based profile