JProfiler releases

JProfiler Release 5.1.3

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT

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

JProfiler Release 5.1.2

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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.

JProfiler Release 5.1.1

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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

JProfiler Release 5.1

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT

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"

JProfiler Release 5.0.1

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT

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

JProfiler Release 5.0

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT

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.

JProfiler Release 4.3.2

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMT

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

JProfiler Release 4.3.1

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT

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

JProfiler Release 4.3

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT

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

JProfiler Release 4.2.2

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:00:00 GMT

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