Devhelp regeneration on start-up

The Libhover Devhelp support has been enhanced so that the devhelp documentation is parsed upon start-up of Eclipse. This enables devhelp selections immediately instead of waiting until the end-user manually schedules a regeneration of the documentation in Libhover binary format.

Configurable Time Zone Preference

The time zone preference has been added to the time format preference page.

Refer to the User Guide for detailed information time format preferences.

Support for Time Range Selection in Tracing Views

It is now possible to select a time range in the tracing views instead of selecting just a single time. This information is broadcasted using the time synchronization signal so that relevant views update their selection. Also the selected start time, end time and time delta is displayed in the status line of the worbench. The time range selection is added in the Control Flow view, Resources view and Histogram view. The Events table also allows the selection of an event range. The Statistics view now displays the number of events for the selected time range.

Refer to the views sections of the User Guide for detailed information about this feature.

Display of Execution Flow in Control Flow View

The Control Flow view now provides arrows to follow the switching of CPU execution across processes. The arrows can be followed in forward and backward direction by using the corresponding buttons of the coolbar. The display of the arrow disabled by using the Hide button of that view.

Refer to the User Guide for detailed information on this view and its usage.

Support for LTTng Tools v2.2

The Control view now supports version v2.2 of LTTng Tools. It is now possible to configure

• UST buffers per user ID (per UID buffers)
• the metadata channel including configuration of the timer for periodic flush of the sub-buffers
• file size and number of files to be written per channel (file rotation)

Highlight of Attribute Changes in State System Explorer

The State System Explorer now hightlights the changes of states when changing the current time selection.

Refer to the User Guide for detailed information on the State System Explorer and its usage.

Display of Trace Properties in the Properties view

The Eclipse's Properties view now shows also additional trace properties such as CTF environment variables.

Refer to the User Guide for detailed information about the Properties view and displayed trace properties.

Improved GUI Responsiveness

The GUI reponsiveness has been improved when processing multiple concurrent request while indexing a trace. The updated request scheduler now ensures that each concurrent request gets sufficient execution time and doesn't have to wait for other requests of the same or higher priority to finish.

Framework Improvements

• Introduced abstract Time Graph Widget classes to make it easier for developers to create time graph views such as the Control Flow view
• The Time Graph Widget now support the creation of links between time graph entries and to draw arrows between events. This has been used in the Control Flow view to follow CPU execution across processes.

OPerf Support

The OProfile plug-in has been enhanced to allow the end-user to use the new OPerf support added to OProfile. OPerf allows the end-user to profile without requiring root access. This eliminates the need for running a pre-installation script before running OProfile.

Stat Diff View Improvements

The Stat Diff View shows the differences between two perf-stat reports in a view. In addition it is now possible to view the individual reports used to form the diff from the view by selecting the 'Show Old Statistics' or 'Show New Statistics' buttons.

RPMStubby Menu

The menu has been modified to allow the use of RPMStubby to stub out and make a .spec file out of Perl makefiles, Ruby gems, and Python eggs.

Generate Perl .spec file stub

Perl makefiles contain a lot of information that could be used to package them as an RPM. The Perl stubby generator does exactly that by generating a stubbed out .spec file template from the .PL file.

More information on the guidelines for this procedure can be viewed at Perl Packaging Guidelines.

Generate Ruby .spec file stub

Ruby gems contain a lot of information that could be used to package them as an RPM. The Ruby stubby generator does exactly that by generating a stubbed out .spec file template from the .gemspec file.

More information on the guidelines for this procedure can be viewed at Ruby Packaging Guidelines.

Generate Python .spec file stub

Python eggs contain a lot of information that could be used to package them as an RPM. The Python stubby generator does exactly that by generating a stubbed out .spec file template from the setup.py file.

More information on the guidelines for this procedure can be viewed at Python Packaging Guidelines.

RPM Menu

The menu has been modified to allow convenient access to the Download Sources and Prepare Sources functionality on the .spec file.

Download sources for a .spec file

The RPM .spec editor now supports being able to download the sources for the .spec file.

Downloading sources will attempt to download from the source urls within the .spec file. If the sources already exist within the current project, then Download Sources will automatically overwrite the existing sources.

Prepare sources for a .spec file

The RPM .spec editor now supports being able to prepare the sources for the .spec file.

Preparing sources will attempt to download the source files before it executes the %prep section.

Refer to Maximum RPM - Executing %prep

Create patches that do not exist

RPM now supports creation of patch files by holding Ctrl then hovering and left clicking on a patch file that does not exist within the project that the specfile belongs to. The newly created file also follows the RPM Project layout and will place it accordingly

The default editor for the file will open immediately after successful creation of the patch file.

Enhanced SystemTap Editor Formatting

The SystemTap editor has been enhanced with regards to formatting. Auto indent capability has been added for new lines and the editor supports indent correction of either a single line or selected lines via the Ctrl+I short-cut. Comments can be added/removed via CTRL+/. In addition, the editor has been improved with regards to auto-completed characters to match the behaviour of existing editors such as the C/C++ editor. For example, if the user starts a string via a double-quote, the editor automatically adds the closing double-quote for the end-user and recognizes when the user unnecessarily types the closing double-quote again.