1 GS Release Notes

This document describes the changes made to the GS application.

1.1 GS 1.6.2

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Update build scripts to not make assumtions about where env, cp and perl are located.

Own Id: OTP-13800

1.2 GS 1.6.1

Improvements and New Features

Internal changes

Own Id: OTP-13551

1.3 GS 1.6

Improvements and New Features

Change license text from Erlang Public License to Apache Public License v2

Own Id: OTP-12845

1.4 GS 1.5.16

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications:

asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger, dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe, inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh, syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx, xmerl

A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP.

(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)

Own Id: OTP-11744

1.5 GS 1.5.15.2

Improvements and New Features

Where necessary a comment stating encoding has been added to Erlang files. The comment is meant to be removed in Erlang/OTP R17B when UTF-8 becomes the default encoding.

Own Id: OTP-10630

1.6 GS 1.5.15.1

Improvements and New Features

The GS applications is now deprecated and will be removed in the R16 release. The following GS-based applications have been superseded by the Observer application and will removed in R16: Appmon, Pman, Tv.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-9907

1.7 GS 1.5.15

Improvements and New Features

Erlang/OTP can now be built using parallel make if you limit the number of jobs, for instance using 'make -j6' or 'make -j10'. 'make -j' does not work at the moment because of some missing dependencies.

Own Id: OTP-9451
Eliminate use of deprecated regexp module

Own Id: OTP-9810

1.8 GS 1.5.14

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Remove misc. compiler warnings

Own Id: OTP-9542

1.9 GS 1.5.13

Improvements and New Features

The documentation for GS is updated with the warning that it should not be used in new applications. GS is planned to be deprecated soon and might be removed from the distribution already in the next major release (R15). For graphical applications we recommend the use of WX instead.

Own Id: OTP-8824

1.10 GS 1.5.10

Improvements and New Features

Updated the application with new tags for automatic updates of copyright notices.

Own Id: OTP-7851

1.11 GS 1.5.12

Improvements and New Features

Warnings due to new autoimported BIFs removed

Own Id: OTP-8674 Aux Id: OTP-8579

1.12 GS 1.5.11

Improvements and New Features

The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

Own Id: OTP-8201

1.13 GS 1.5.9

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixed grid_line crash, which caused tv, debugger and pman crashes. Thanks Jan Jacobs and others.

Own Id: OTP-7242

1.14 GS 1.5.8

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Uses wish85 if available and fixed 'gs error: gstk_port_handler: error in input : unknown option "-sta"' error. Thanks Vance Shipley

Own Id: OTP-7115

1.15 GS 1.5.7

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Fixed font size and some bugs in the generic file dialog, which is undocumented and mainly intended for internal use (today it is only used by Pman).

The file priv/bitmap/fup.bm has been added and the module tool_genfd removed.

Also fixed dialyzer warning in gs_packer.

Own Id: OTP-6682

1.16 GS 1.5.6

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Removed some dead code from gstk_editor and tcl2erl.

Own Id: OTP-6541

1.17 GS 1.5.5

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

Corrected some bugs in the examples.

Own Id: OTP-5988
Removed export_all from gs_widgets, gs_frontend, gstk, gstk_db, gstk_generic, gstk_gs, gstk_widgets, tcl2erl, tool_file_dialog, tool_genfd.

Own Id: OTP-6008

Improvements and New Features

Fixed the functions for creating help windows (notify/confirm/request) in the internal module tool_utils, so that the help window can be centered over its parent window (instead of at a random position).

Own Id: OTP-5987
Eliminated some dead code from gstk, found by Dialyzer.

Own Id: OTP-6045
Upgraded tcl/tk binaries to version 8.4.13

Own Id: OTP-6106

1.18 GS 1.5.4

Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

The graphic applications now search for HTML documentation in the correct place.

Own Id: OTP-5381