[slf4j-user] Lilith 0.9.37 has been released!

Ceki Gulcu ceki at qos.ch
Thu Nov 12 15:10:49 CET 2009


Congrats!

Joern Huxhorn wrote:
> The changes in this release focus on suggestions I received from users.
> Some have the topic of increasing the usable screen-space of the application 
> (hiding of statusbar, toolbar, getting rid of the tab-bar in case of
> an unfiltered view) while others have been implemented to increase
> performance (ability to disable the global logs & statistics, a native
> "Level>=" condition, CallLocation condition).
> 
> It was very interesting to discover how different people are using Lilith
> in totally different ways.
> Please keep me informed and flood me with suggestions.
> 
> Thanks, and have fun with Lilith 0.9.37!
> 
> Changes:
> 
> - Change of active Conditions was not repainting views.
>   This was only the case in internal betas.
>   This was reported by Alfred.
> - Removed additivity from the debug loggers.
>   Debug logger events won't show up in the Lilith log or the console.
> - Prevented duplicate start of application by the same user.
>   Duplicate startup by a different user is still possible but quite
>   useless until the event receivers are configurable.
>   This was requested by Joe.
> - Enhanced debug dialog. Better layout and tooltips.
> - Added option to disable the creation of statistics.
> - Added "Copy call location" action.
>   This is quite useful in combination with the CallLocation condition.
> - Added CallLocation condition that returns true if the first element
>   of the call stack equals the given StackTraceElement.
> - Added option to disable global logs.
>   This was requested by Joe.
> - Preventing saved conditions with duplicate name or condition.
> - The Appenders are now supporting the "Adder-Idiom" that is common
>   for Logback appenders.
>   You can now use multiple <RemoteHost> tags to define the remote hosts.
> - Replaced JCheckboxMenuItem in Window menu with a JMenuItem containing
>   an Icon if the entry has a frame.
> - Toolbar of mainframe was not switched active after attach.
> - Toolbar of mainframe stayed active after detach.
> - Removed appBuildNumber from title. It was annoying at best.
> - Enhanced "Check for update" dialog.
> - Implement optional "Tip of the Day" dialog.
> - Added "Level>=" as a native default condition to increase performance.
> - Copy actions are now working correctly in case of external frames.
>   This was reported by Matthias "Alfred" Neumann.
> - Updated protobuf to 2.2.0.
> - Jumping to the unfiltered event didn't work the first time
>   if Tail was enabled.
>   This was reported by Joe.
> - Preferences dialog can now be closed by pressing Enter.
>   This was suggested by Vlad Satanovski.
> - Table and message view are now having reasonable preferred sizes
>   (needed because of splitpane).
> - Replaced tabs of event view with a combobox.
>   The combobox is only visible if there are filtered views.
>   There's also more room for the condition string.
>   Something like this was suggested by Scott Stanton and Joe.
> - Added "Execute GC" to Troubleshooting.
> - Added option to show/hide the statusbar.
> - Added option to show/hide the toolbar.
>   This was suggested by Scott Stanton, Ekkehard Gentz and Joe.
> - Added "Context" column for logging events.
> - Updated keyboard help. Better symbol for "Ctrl"/"cmd".
> - Added "Troubleshooting..." menu item in "Help" menu as a shortcut
>   to the throubleshooting section of Preferences.
> - Added new command "Copy Properties" to Troubleshooting
>   section of Preferences.
> - Removed useless Statistics action for current source.
>   Statistics can be obtained using "Window" => "Statistics".
> - Added persistent zoom-in (*command* .) and zoom-out (*command* shift .)
>   of details view.
> - Events did sometimes show up twice in filtered views.
>   This was caused by a classic off-by-one error.
>   Reported by Joe.
> - Fixed a remaining hang in the multiplex appenders in case of
>   certain network problems.
> - Updated Groovy to 1.6.5.
> - Updated Logback to 0.9.17.
>   This fixes issue 63 that was caused by a Logback bug.
>   Thanks for the fast fix, Ceki!
> 
> 
>   
> Known Issues:
> 
> - Mac OS X 10.5 + 10.6:
>   Shortcuts/Accelerators are not working if both the "Tip of the Day"
>   and "Check for Update" dialogs show after startup.
>   This seems to be a bug in the Java implementation from Apple.
> - Selection in the HTML view is currently somewhat buggy,
>   especially in case of scaled view.
>   This is a limitation of Flying Saucer that's used as the XHTML renderer.
> 
> p.s.:
> I've switched the SCM of both sulky and lilith to GIT.
> The Subversion repositories are only kept for historical reasons.


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Ceki Gülcü
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