Linux Tools New & Noteworthy

Release	Resolved	Community Contributions
0.8.1 20 Sept 2011	32 bugs	This was a bug-fix-only release resolving issues with LTTng, Autotools, ChangeLog, Valgrind, SystemTap, and Callgraph.
0.8 22 June 2011	84 bugs	Daniel Henrique Barboza contributed support for the Valgrind Helgrind tool. John Dallaway provided a patch to improve our GProf view and some good bug reports on other components. Patrick Tasse, Alexandre Montplaisir, and Daniel U. Thibault improved our Tracing and Monitoring Framework and LTTng support with patches, bug reports, and testing. Corey Ashford assisted with OProfile plugin fixes on Power architecture machines and general OProfile interaction issues. Doug Schaefer tested non-Linux support for our GNU Autotools integration.
0.7 16 Feb 2011	52 bugs	The LTTng team improved the visualization tools and performance. All help content is maintained in Eclipse.org wiki and with Mylyn Wikitext. .spec file and changelog editors properly show/use Mylyn hyperlinks when bug reference is detected.
0.6 23 June 2010	83 bugs	Jon Beniston contributed some patches for the Autotools plugins. Patrick Tasse helped improve the TMF Time Analysis Viewer. Chris Aniszczyk clarified some API violations. Martin Gerhardy helped Xavier Raynaud implement support for 64-bit gmon files for use with the GProf integration plugins.
0.5.1 12 May 2010	8 bugs	Thanks to bugs filed by Jens Seidel and Chris Conway, Jeff Johnston fixed bugs in our Autotools component. Jeff also fixed bugs in our ChangeLog and libhover components and included the Autotools plugin documentation which was mistakenly missed in 0.5.0. Roland Grunberg fixed some OProfile bugs and committed a patch submitted by Lawrie Nichols in bug #296228. As well, our OProfile native fragment dropped its erroneously-licensed opxml binary; users will now need to rebuild on their system which will actually fix a few bugs people were seeing.
0.5 18 March 2010	70 bugs	Niels Thykier and Benjamin Drung provided many patches for eclipse-build and ran test builds to verify fixes and improvements. Anithra contributed the SystemTap dashboard and removed the SystemTap server dependency. Thanks to Jens Seidel and Roland Grunberg who helped test & fix SystemTap bugs. Jens also helped with testing our Autotools integration.
0.4.1 21 Dec. 2009	5 bugs	This was a bug-fix-only release, resolving some issues with Autotools and OProfile plugins.
0.4 23 Nov. 2009	101 bugs	Our Eclipse SDK build harness, eclipse-build, would be much worse off if it weren't for the patches and testing by Benjamin Drung, Matthias Klose, Marvin Schmidt, and Niels Thykier. Nick Boldt once again helped us with some release engineering issues. Thanks to users such as Jens Seidel, Andrew Gvozdev, and PurpleFloyd for reporting some key bugs against Autotools and testing the subsequent fixes.
0.3 19 August 2009	113 bugs	Jens Seidel helped with Autotools and Valgrind testing, filing important bugs. Alex Mueller guided the development of the manual control of the OProfile daemon. Nick Boldt once again helped us with our release engineering processes. Martin Gerhardy and Mat Booth helped getting the RPM specfile editor to work on Windows. Andrew Niefer and Kim Moir helped a lot with getting eclipse-build off the ground and with difficult problems.
0.2.1 5 June 2009	1 bug	Patrick Hofer and others notified us of a bug with our Valgrind components on Debian-based systems.
0.2 11 May 2009	67 bugs	Ed Swartz assisted in tracking down a UI blocker in the configure.ac editor. Pedro Saraiva pointed out a localization issue with the massif plugin. Uwe Stieber fixed a compilation problem with Eclipse 3.5, fixed the OProfile fragments, and illustrated an incorrect BREE. Jens Seidel and Ben Konrath both filed bugs with good test cases and helped track down problems. Uwe Stieber, Mikael Steen Springer, and Axel Mueller helped Kent Sebastian to improve the privilege escalation code for launching opxml on various Linux distributions. Nick Boldt helped improve our automated build process.
0.1 23 Jan. 2009	11 bugs	Alphonse van Assche contributed many fixes for our RPM specfile editor as well as integration of rpmlint error and warning parsing. Phil Muldoon contributed his SystemTap editor and helped with ChangeLog bug fixes. Kent Sebastian picked up Keith Seitz's work on OProfile and worked with Elliott Baron to create a framework for profiling tools. Elliott contributed his work on integrating the Valgrind suite of tools into the IDE. Alexander Kurtakov contributed many fixes to our RPM specfile editor as well as making the initial RPM Stubby work usable. Nick Boldt helped us immensely as we got our release engineering processes straightened out. Jeff Johnston contributed his work on integrating the GNU Autotools with the CDT. Jeff also contributed his work on bridging the gap between API documentation and the CDT's hover help with his libhover work.
pre-0.1	69 bugs	Prior to our 0.1 release, Remy Chi Jian Suen helped us out with proper execution environments for our plugins among other things. Phil Muldoon contributed his ChangeLog plugin. Kyu Lee then contributed an editor for ChangeLog files. Keith Seitz contributed his OProfile integration plugins. Igor Foox helped out a great deal getting our RPM specfile editor started.

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Linux Tools 0.7
Linux Tools 0.6
Linux Tools 0.5.1
Linux Tools 0.4
Linux Tools 0.3
Linux Tools 0.2.1
Linux Tools 0.1

New in Linux Tools 0.8

GNU Autotools Support (1)
Building the Eclipse SDK (1)
GProf support (2)
GCov support (1)
API Documentation Hover Help (2)
OProfile Profiling (1)
Valgrind Profiling (1)
LTTng (2)

GNU Autotools Support

Windows/Mac Support	Changes have been made which allow the Autotools plug-in to be used on Windows and Mac platforms. The key changes involve invoking the configure script and autotools using "sh -c" without passing the PWD environment variable.

Building the Eclipse SDK

Dropins fixes	Until we discontinue our use of the p2 dropins mechanism entirely, we have fixed a long-standing issue with the use of the Equinox Initializer that was affecting our dropins installation.

GProf Integration

Help Support	The GProf User Guide is now included as part of the Eclipse Help Contents. The guide is created from the Linux Tools wiki page and will be synchronized in the future.

Windows Support	Changes have been made which allow the GProf plug-in to be used on Windows/Cygwin or Windows/Mingw platforms.

GCov Integration

Windows Support	Changes have been made which allow the GCov plug-in to be used on Windows /Cygwin or Windows/Mingw platforms.

API Documentation Hover Help

Devhelp Support	Support has been added to generate hover help from devhelp documentation on Linux. Devhelp documentation is a format that some packages use to support the Linux devhelp API browser. Libhover can regenerate the hover help at any time without requiring a restart of Eclipse. In addition, the devhelp contents are added to the Eclipse Help Contents under C/C++ Library Documentation.

Developer's Guide	The Libhover Developer's Guide is now included in the Eclipse Help Contents. The guide has information on the libhover data formats for C and C++ as well as how to use the libhover plug-in extension to add library hover help.

OProfile Profiling

Improve robustness	The OProfile bridge known as opxml has been removed. This enables easier plugin installation and cleaner interaction with opcontrol. Bug fixes have also been applied improving error checking and enabling users to more easily find errors with OProfile itself.

Valgrind Profiling

Helgrind	Support for the Valgrind Helgrind tool has been added. Similar to the memcheck and massif integration, it is easy to set up launch options. Source code highlighting is performed for each pthread synchronization error that Helgrind finds. Thanks to Daniel Henrique Barboza for this contribution.

Linux Tracing Toolkit

LTTng Tracer Control	This feature allows to connect to a remote node running an instrumented Linux kernel via a TCF Agent. The user can then configure and control the collection of kernel traces. Once the trace is collected on the target, it can then be imported into an LTTng project for standard analysis (processes/resources analysis, etc). Refer to the LTTng User Guide for further information.

Events View improvements	The Events View now supports efficient column-based searching and filtering. This feature is useful to rapidly navigate through large amounts of events. Refer to the LTTng User Guide for further information.