devtools 0.1.12-dev.2

A suite of web-based performance tooling for Dart and Flutter.

0.1.12-dev.2

• Fix bug causing async events with the same name to overlap each other in the Timeline.
• Check for a debug service extension instead of using eval to distinguish between debug and profile builds.
• Depend on the latest package:sse.

0.1.11 - 2019-11-08

• Add full timeline mode with support for async and recorded tracing.
• Add event summary section that shows metadata for non-ui events on the Timeline page.
• Enable full timeline for Dart CLI applications.
• Fix a message manager bug.
• Fix a bug with processing CPU profile responses.
• Reduce race conditions in integration tests.

0.1.10 - 2019-10-18

• Change wording of DevTools survey prompt.

0.1.9 - 2019-10-17

• Launched the Q3 DevTools Survey.
• Bug fixes related to layouts and logging.
• Update to use latest devtools_server 0.1.12.
• Remove usage of browser LocalStorage, previously used to store the user's answer to collect or not collect Analytics.
• Analytic's properties (firstRun, enabled) are now stored in local file ~/.devtools controlled by the devtools_server.
• Now devtools_app will request and set property values, in ~/.devtools, via HTTP requests to the devtools_server.
• Store survey properties on whether the user has answered or dismissed a survey in the ~/.devtools file too.

0.1.8 - 2019-10-01

• Query a flutter isolate for the target frame rate (e.g. 60FPS vs 120FPS). Respect this value in the Timeline.
• Polish import / export flow for Timeline.
• Depend on latest package:devtools_server.

0.1.7 - 2019-09-09

• Fix bug with profile mode detection.
• Enable expand all / collapse to selected functionality in the inspector (available in Flutter versions 1.10.1 or later).
• Fix analytics bug for apps running in profile mode.
• Fix bug in memory experiment handling.
• Hide Dart VM flags when the connected app is not running on the Dart VM (web apps).
• Former "Settings" screen is now the "Info" screen - updated icon accordingly.
• Various CSS fixes.
• Code health improvements.

0.1.6 - 2019-09-04

• Add a page to show Flutter version and Dart VM flags details.
• Add settings dialog to memory page that supports filtering snapshots and enabling experiments.
• Various css fixes.
• CSS polish for cursors, hover, and misc.
• Use frame time in CPU profile unavailable message.
• Fixes to our splitter control.
• Rev to the latest version of package:vm_service.
• Remove the dependency on package:mockito.
• Remove the dependency on package:rxdart.
• Support sse and sses schemes for connection with a running app.
• Address an npe in the memory page.
• Polish button collapsing for small screen widths.
• Adjust some of the logging flutter.error presentation.
• Fix thread name bug.
• Support Ansi color codes in logging views.
• Add keyboard navigation to the inspector tree view.
• Enable structured errors by default.
• Fix NPE in the Debugger.
• Improve testing on Windows.

0.1.5 - 2019-08-05

• Support expanding or collapsing all values in the Call Tree and Bottom Up views (parts of the CPU profiler).
• Support touchscreen scrolling and selection in flame charts.
• Display structured error messages in the Logging view when "show structured errors" is enabled.
• Search and filter dialogs are now case-insensitive.
• Link to Dart DevTools documentation from connect screen.
• Disable unsupported DevTools pages for Dart web apps.
• Debugger dark mode improvements.

0.1.4 - 2019-07-19

• Add Performance page. This has a traditional CPU profiler for Dart applications.
• Add ability to specify the profile granularity for the CPU profiler.
• Bug fixes for DevTools tables, memory page, and cpu profiler.

0.1.3 - 2019-07-11

• Link to new flutter.dev hosted DevTools documentation.
• Inspector UI improvements.

0.1.2 - 2019-07-01

• Add Call Tree and Bottom Up views to CPU profiler.
• Pre-fetch CPU profiles so that we have profiling information for every frame in the timeline.
• Trim Mixins from class name reporting in the CPU profiler.
• Add searching for a particular class from all active classes in a Snapshot. After a snapshot, use the search button, located to left of snapshot button (or the shortcut CTRL+f ), to find and select the class in the classes list.
• Add ability to find which class and field hold a reference to the current instance. Hovering on an instance's allocation icon (right-most side of the instance). Clicking on a class/field entry in the hover card will locate that particular class instance that has a reference to the original instance being hovered.
• Expose hover card navigation via a memory navigation history areas (group of links below the classes/instances lists).
• Allow DevTools feedback to be submitted when DevTools is not connected to an app.
• Support URL encoded urls in the connection dialog.
• Add error handling for analytics.
• Cleanup warning message presentation.
• Bug fixes and improvements.

0.1.1 - 2019-05-30

• Make timeline snapshot format compatible with trace viewers such as chrome://tracing.
• Add ability to import timeline snapshots via drag-and-drop.
• Memory instance viewer handles all InstanceKind lists.
• CPU profiler bug fixes and improvements.

0.1.0 - 2019-05-02

• Expose functionality to export timeline trace and CPU profiles.
• Add "Clear" button to the timeline page.
• CPU profiler bug fixes and improvements.
• Inspector polish bug fixes. Handle very deep inspector trees and only show expand-collapse arrows on tree nodes where needed.
• Fix case where error messages remained on the startup screen after the error had been fixed.
• Add ability to inspect an instance of a memory object in the memory profiler page after a snapshot of active memory objects.
• First time DevTools is launched, prompt with an opt-in dialog to report DevTools usage statistics and crash reports of DevTools to Google.

0.0.19 - 2019-05-01

• Update DevTools server to better handle failures when launching browsers.
• Support additional formats for VM service uris.
• Link to documentation from --track-widget-creation warning in the Inspector.

0.0.18 - 2019-04-30

• Fix release bug (0.0.17-dev.1 did not include build folder).
• Add CPU profiler (preview) to timeline page.
• CPU flame chart UI improvements and bug fixes.
• Bug fixes for DevTools on Windows.
• DevTools server released with support for launching DevTools in Chrome.
• Dark mode improvements.

0.0.16 - 2019-04-17

• Reduce the minimum Dart SDK requirements for activating DevTools to cover Flutter v1.2.1 (Dart v2.1)

0.0.15 - 2019-04-16

• Warn users when they should be using a profile build of their application instead of a debug build.
• Warn users using Microsoft browsers (IE and Edge) that they should be using Chrome to run DevTools.
• Dark mode improvements.
• Open scripts in the debugger using ctrl + o.

0.0.14 - 2019-03-26

• Dark mode is ready to use, add &theme=dark at the end of the URI used to open the DevTool in Chrome. We look forward to your feedback.
• Added event timeline to memory profiler to track DevTool's Snapshot and Reset events.
• Timeline CPU renamed to UI, janky defined as UI duration + GPU duration > 16 ms.
• Timeline frame chart removed 8 ms highwater line, only 16 ms highwater line, display 2 traces ui/gpu (instead of 4). Janky frames will have a red glow.
• Flame chart colors use a different set of palettes and timeline is sticky.
• Warn users when they are using an unsupported browser.
• Properly disable features that aren't supported for the connected application.
• Fix screens for different widths.

0.0.13 - 2019-03-15

• Dark mode, still being polished, is available. Add &theme=dark at the end of URI used to open DevTools in the Chrome browser.

Memory

• Added showing GCs on the timeline and leak detection.

Timeline

• Fix bugs when events were received out of order.

0.0.1

• initial (pre-release) release