[535203] New and Noteworthy for Memory Analyzer 1.8
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+<meta name="abstract" content="Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Memory Analyzer for the 1.7 release."/>
+<meta name="description" content="Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Memory Analyzer for the 1.7 release."/>
+<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2008, 2017 SAP AG and others. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html " type="primary"/>
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+<body id="ref_noteworthy">
+
+
+ <h1 class="title topictitle1">New and Noteworthy</h1>
+
+
+
+ <div class="body refbody"><p class="shortdesc">Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or
+ significant changes made to the Memory Analyzer for the 1.7 release.
+ </p>
+
+ <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Enhancements</h2>
+
+ <p class="p">Memory Analyzer can now open and process bigger heap dumps with enough memory.
+ The current record is 1,160,000,000 objects, but given enough memory it might be
+ possible to process heap dumps with over 2,000,000,000 objects.</p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Bugfixes</h2>
+
+ <p class="p">The 1.7.0 release of Memory Analyzer contains a number of fixes for issues spotted with the 1.6 release. Here is a list with the corresponding bug IDs.
+Some of the fixes were included in the 1.6.1 release.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class="p">471757 NullPointerException trying to open bin file generated with java 1.8</p>
+
+ <p class="p">500060 MAT 1.6 OQL yields blank columns during query</p>
+
+ <p class="p">515399 java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException when running top_components report</p>
+
+ <p class="p">426684 Cleanup of obsolete files</p>
+
+ <p class="p">460155 Support marking a stack frame local in the ThreadOverviewQuery with "blocked on"</p>
+
+ <p class="p">484455 Size of description-column in acquire-dialog is too small</p>
+
+ <p class="p">491830 Eclipse Memory Analyzer tutorial: suggested improvement</p>
+
+ <p class="p">497127 ExtractCollectionEntriesTest3 failures on Linux</p>
+
+ <p class="p">498397 MAT projects referencing old version number</p>
+
+ <p class="p">508054 Update the documentation on "how to acquire a heap dump"</p>
+
+ <p class="p">508090 Building the help with DITA makes the repository dirty</p>
+
+ <p class="p">501453 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in RefinedTableViewer.handleSetDataEvent, no entries displayed in histogram</p>
+
+ <p class="p">509216 Refactor building of standalone products</p>
+
+ <p class="p">517165 OQL NullPointer exception with when clause and null select values</p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">New and Noteworthy for Memory Analyzer 1.6</h2>
+
+ <p class="p">
+ The New and Noteworthy document for version 1.6 is available
+ <a class="xref" href="http://www.eclipse.org/mat/1.6.0/noteworthy.html">here</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ </div>
+
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+<html xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+<meta name="DC.Type" content="reference"/>
+<meta name="DC.Title" content="New and Noteworthy"/>
+<meta name="abstract" content="Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Memory Analyzer for the 1.8 release."/>
+<meta name="description" content="Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Memory Analyzer for the 1.8 release."/>
+<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2008, 2018 SAP AG and others. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html " type="primary"/>
+<meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="Copyright (c) 2008, 2018 SAP AG and others. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html " type="primary"/>
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+<meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us"/>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/commonltr.css"/>
+<title>New and Noteworthy</title>
+</head>
+<body id="ref_noteworthy">
+
+
+ <h1 class="title topictitle1">New and Noteworthy</h1>
+
+
+
+ <div class="body refbody"><p class="shortdesc">Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or
+ significant changes made to the Memory Analyzer for the 1.8 release.
+ </p>
+
+ <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Enhancements and fixes</h2>
+
+ <p class="p">Eclipse Memory Analyzer 1.8 has support for generating and analyzing dumps
+ from Java 9, Java 10 as well as Java 1.8 and previous versions.
+ The acquire dump dialog and collection queries have been enhanced for this.</p>
+
+ <ul class="ul">
+ <li class="li">Memory Analyzer RCP is now built with Photon.
+ The following stand-alone builds are available:
+ <ul class="ul">
+ <li class="li">Windows (x86)</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Windows (x86_64)</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Mac OSX (Mac/Cocoa x86_64)</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Linux (x86/GTK 2)</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Linux (x86_64/GTK 2)</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Linux (PPC64/GTK 2)</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Linux (PPC64le/GTK 2)</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <div class="note note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span>
+ Because of the <a class="xref" href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse-dev/msg10207.html">removal of Eclipse platform support</a> for certain operating systems for
+ <a class="xref" href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7/platform.php#unix-platforms-dropped">
+ Oxygen</a> and later the following stand-alone builds are not available for Memory Analyzer 1.8:
+ <ul class="ul">
+ <li class="li"><em class="ph i">Linux (PPC/GTK 2)</em></li>
+
+ <li class="li"><em class="ph i">Linux (s390/GTK 2)</em></li>
+
+ <li class="li"><em class="ph i">Linux (s390x/GTK 2)</em></li>
+
+ <li class="li"><em class="ph i">Solaris 8 (x86/GTK 2)</em></li>
+
+ <li class="li"><em class="ph i">Solaris 8 (SPARC/GTK 2)</em></li>
+
+ <li class="li"><em class="ph i">HP-UX (IA64/GTK 2)</em></li>
+
+ <li class="li"><em class="ph i">AIX (PPC/GTK 2)</em></li>
+
+ <li class="li"><em class="ph i">AIX (PPC64/GTK 2)</em></li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ It is possible that Memory Analyzer 1.8 could be installed into
+ <a class="xref" href="http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.6.3-201703010400/">
+ Eclipse Neon for those platforms</a> or into
+ <a class="xref" href="https://www.eclipse.org/mat/previousReleases.php">previous releases of Eclipse Memory Analyzer</a>
+ but this has not been tested.
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="note note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span>
+ Because of the <a class="xref" href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation/Java8Required">requirements of Eclipse Neon and later</a>, Java version 1.8 or later is required to run the RCP.
+ <a class="xref" href="https://www.eclipse.org/mat/previousReleases.php">Previous releases of Eclipse Memory Analyzer</a>
+ could run with Java 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8.
+ </div>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li class="li">Memory Analyzer can now work with Java virtual machines, version 9 and version 10,
+ as well as 1.8. Dumps from JVMs versions 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 are still handled.
+ Memory Analyzer has been tested with JVMs of the
+ following types:
+ <ul class="ul">
+ <li class="li">Oracle JVMs</li>
+
+ <li class="li">OpenJDK JVMs</li>
+
+ <li class="li">IBM JVMs</li>
+
+ <li class="li">OpenJ9 JVMs</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li class="li">Fixes for new Java 9 string format</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Acquire heap dumps - various improvements:
+ <ul class="ul">
+ <li class="li">Attach API provider now works using <samp class="ph codeph">com.sun.tools.attach</samp>
+ allowing it to work with Oracle JVMs and IBM JVMs, version 1.8 SR5 and later.
+ Earlier IBM JVMs continue to work using <samp class="ph codeph">com.ibm.tools.attach</samp></li>
+
+ <li class="li">Sort columns of PID and provider</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Resizing of columns with window</li>
+
+ <li class="li">More help, including links to provider help</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Processes unavailable for dumps marked in <em class="ph i">italics</em></li>
+
+ <li class="li">Attach API provide can generate HPROF dumps for Oracle and OpenJDK JVMS
+ using HotSpot MX bean.</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Configure Heap Dump providers page jumps to appropriate provider when
+ selected from a process.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ </li>
+
+ <li class="li">Equinox Bundle Explorer now handles more recent Eclipse versions.</li>
+
+ <li class="li">More collections handled by collection queries, including collections from Java 9 and Java 10.</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Fix for <a class="xref" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=520908">520908</a>: Invalid thread object in ThreadOverviewQuery causes whole query to fail</li>
+
+ <li class="li">Fix for <a class="xref" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=521999">521999</a>: pString values not displayed analyzing some IBM core dumps</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">New and Noteworthy for Memory Analyzer 1.7</h2>
+
+ <p class="p">
+ The New and Noteworthy document for version 1.7 is available
+ <a class="xref" href="http://www.eclipse.org/mat/1.7.0/noteworthy.html">here</a>.
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
+
+
+ </div>
+
+
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<ul class="midlist">
<li>28 June 2017, <a href="/mat/downloads.php">Memory Analyzer Released Version 1.7.0</a>
<br/><br/>
- Memory Analyzer 1.7.0 Release is now available for <a href="/mat/downloads.php">download</a>. Check the related <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.mat/releases/1.7.0/">release record</a> for an overview of the release.
+ Memory Analyzer 1.7.0 Release is now available for <a href="/mat/downloads.php">download</a>. Check the related <a href="https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.mat/releases/1.7.0/">release record</a> for an overview of the release
+ and see the <a href="/mat/1.7.0/noteworthy.html">new and noteworthy changes</a>.
</li>
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