X-Git-Url: http://sigrok.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b20f14aebe4bd890a6bd92323e043b3540cb6629;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fpulseview-0.4.x;hp=5ffbfe815bc8492b10b19aea76a76edec04ae513;hpb=1c8faf54000d2ace246c7403ac7d12663bfd80e5;p=pulseview.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5ffbfe81..b20f14ae 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,376 @@ +0.4.2 (2020-03-31) +------------------ + + * Updated build requirements: + - Qt (all subcomponents) >= 5.3 + - Qt LinguistTools >= 5.3 + - Qt translation package (optional; needed at runtime, not build time) + * Allow manually saving/restoring session setups in *.pvs files (bug #971). + - Session setups can be auto-saved (config option). + - Session setups are auto-loaded if they exist. + - Add -s / --settings command-line option to load a session setup file. + - Also save/restore decoder visibility (bug #1362). + - Also save/restore markers, cursors, and zero offset (bug #1457). + * Add GUI element translations support and a language selection option. + - Add a German translation of the GUI elements. + * Add a decoder selector subwindow. + - Decoders can be manually browsed by tags. For versions of libsigrokdecode + that don't yet support tags, an "All Decoders" tag is used (bug #1451). + - An edit field allows filtering the displayed decoders by substring match. + - Filtering will cover various PD fields, like ID and name (bug #1375). + - When a decoder is selected, show a description at the bottom (bug #1309). + Hide the description when no decoder is selected (bug #1488). + - When a stacked decoder is selected, auto-stacking compatible decoders + will be attempted, the user has to decide if multiple options exist. + - Avoid issues with multi-monitor setups (bug #1147). + - Fix a small issue with mouse clicks and multiple sessions (bug #1400). + * Add a decoder "binary" output subwindow that can show/save "OUTPUT_BINARY" + type decoder data in various (decoder-specific) formats (WAV, PCAP, PNG, + and many others); Also features a simple "hex view" for the data. + * Add the possibility to show/hide individual decoder annotation rows as well + as individual annotation classes. + * Cursors and markers: + - Allow setting cursors via shift-drag. + - Show relative time of flags on hover (i.e., when the mouse hovers over + a marker/cursor, show time relative to the item being hovered over). + Pressing shift, the regular labels are shown again. + - Add a context menu for the cursor which can be used to show/hide + measurement values like interval/frequency/samples (bug #1290). + - Add "temporary snapping disable" menu to markers and cursors. + - Make cursor pair drop precision when space for the text is too small. + - Show ruler timestamps in cursors and popups (not absolute timestamps). + - Fix ruler double-click to add cursor in the correct position. + - Accept new position on enter press in cursor popups. + - Cursors: Fix mouse cursor shape to be horizontal arrows. + - Fix Up and Down arrow hotkeys preventing combobox scrolling (bug #1440). + * Connect dialog: + - Fix scan for certain USB devices (bug #1403). + - Fix an issue where serial ports can't be selected. + - Add baud rate combobox for serial ports. + * Key shortcuts: + - Add +/- and cursor Up/Down shortcuts (zoom in/out). + - Add Home and End shortcuts (move to start/end of acquisition data). + - Use 'd' shortcut to show/hide the decoder selector, ESC to hide it. + - Add '1' and '2' shortcuts (attach cursor edges to the mouse). + - Update manpage to document all new/changed key shortcuts and options. + * Disable anti-aliasing on high-DPI displays. + * Improve drawing performance in some places. + * Improve decoder/annotation handling performance in some places. + * org.sigrok.PulseView.appdata.xml: Fix a few warnings. + * Use scroll bars for popups with too much content (bugs #183, #1412). + * Make it possible to copy the text from decoder annotations (bug #1107). + * Add an option to always show annotation rows, even when empty (bug #977). + * Logging: Break libsigrokdecode stacktraces up into proper newlines. + * Fixed disappearing annotation rows of stacked PDs (bug #1446). + * Fix an issue where selected channels couldn't be deleted (bug #852). + * Import options dialog: Fix visibility of extended info (bug #1462). + * Fix an issue of missing chunks of data when saving/exporting (bug #1470). + * Manual: Fix command line word order and quoting of wget invocations. + * The "Run" button will now read "Reload" when using files (bug #1448). + * Massively improve "two finger drag trackpad zooming and panning" on + Mac OS X. However, pinch-to-zoom no longer works, but two finger drag + up and down is an alternative (bug #1056). + * Improve channel selection popup to allow for easier group-show/hide. + * Annotation export format: Add "%c" to the format string. + * Fix a decoder trace overlap issue with multiple decoders (bug #1505). + * Improve reliability of auto-scaling of analog traces (bug #1431). + * Improve analog trace displaying with high values/voltages (bug #1525). + * Increase precision on analog views, avoid rounding issues (bug #1335). + * Abort acquisition if there are more than 64 logic channels. + * Fix an issue with extended error messages in dialog texts. + * Fix an issue with "zero" time display, triggers, and markers (bug #1338). + * Fix various compiler/scan-build/clang-tidy/clazy warnings. + * Build system: + - Create NSIS file in binary directory (not source). + - NSIS: Ship Python stdlib *.pyd files (bug #1409). + - Show detected Qt version. + - Don't do a QUIET search for libsigrokcxx (for easier debugging). + - Fix a compile issue when building without libsigrokdecode. + +0.4.1 (2018-10-29) +------------------ + + * Updated build requirements: + - libsigrokcxx >= 0.5.1 (libsigrok C++ bindings) + - libsigrokdecode >= 0.5.2 + - libboost-stacktrace (optional, only needed for debugging) + - asciidoctor (optional, only needed to build the HTML manual) + - asciidoctor-pdf (optional, only needed to build the PDF manual) + * Add support for snapping cursors and markers to signal edges (bug #684). + - When the mouse cursor is in a channel, snapping will only be performed + for edges of that specific channel. + - When the mouse cursor is not in a channel, snapping will happen for any + edge of any channel (bugs #1292, #1294). + - When moving both cursors at the same time, the left one will snap to + edges while the right one will not (e.g. useful for measurements). + - The edge to snap to is chosen based on heuristics involving the edge + density near the mouse cursor (to try to get the most useful matches). + * Command-line options: + - Add support for loading multiple files from the command-line (bug #1040). + - Add support for input format options for the -I parameter (bug #951). + Example: pulseview -I csv:header:first-channel=2 -i filename.csv + - Try to autodetect the input format when -I is not supplied (bug #1015). + - Add support for -d/--driver, i.e. driver scan options (bug #953). + Example: pulseview -d ols:conn=/dev/ttyACM0 + - Add a -D/--dont-scan option, don't auto-scan for devices (bug #1116). + - The -V option now shows the full PulseView/libs version info (bug #1213). + * Add support for per-channel analog-to-logic conversion (A2L) via either + the "threshold" or "schmitt-trigger" method, which allows running protocol + decoders on the converted channels. + * Cursors: + - Add a tooltip when there's not enough space to show the + interval/frequency measurement values (bug #1222). + - Measurements are always shown with 12 digit precision (bug #870). + * Add theme (and Qt UI style) support, including two "dark" themes. + * Add a PulseView manual (HTML and PDF format), generated by "make manual". + * manpage: Document all new command-line options. + * Add a "fill logic signal high areas" feature with configurable color. + * Add segment/frame support and a selector UI for e.g. oscilloscope frames. + * Add multi-segment protocol decoding support. + * Add support for an (optional) vertical mouse hover line (bug #770). + * The obsolete signal scale handle has been replaced by another mechanism. + * Accept user-entered sample rates when external clock is enabled. + * Slightly more user-friendly scan dropdown for VXI vs. Raw TCP (bug #1146). + * Suppport for new libsigrok(cxx) config keys: + - SR_CONF_DATA_SOURCE + - SR_CONF_EXTERNAL_CLOCK_SOURCE + - SR_CONF_AVERAGING + - SR_CONF_AVG_SAMPLES (including support for list of values) + * Fix long UI hangs when changing decoder options/channels (bug #1174). + * Many internal refactorings and flexibility/performance improvements. + - Decrease the number of trace redrawing operations in a few places. + - Use emplace_back() in various places to avoid some allocations. + - Increase decode chunk size to 256kB for better performance. + - Increase input file chunk size to 4MB for improved performance. + - Speed up painting by not unnecessarily copying decoder annotations. + - Improve MipMap downsampling code, speeding up e.g. file loading. + - Fix various memory leaks and other issues reported by valgrind. + - Various fixes for issues reported by clang-tidy and clazy. + - Fix some issues reported by Coverity. + - Fix various gcc 8 warnings/errors. + * Decoder channel name (auto-)assignment: + - Auto-match e.g. "SCL analog" to the "SCL" decoder channel. + - Ignore "insignificant" characters (-_.) for name matching (bug #1270). + - Fix a channel auto-assignment issue with disabled channels (bug #1182). + - Fix a channel auto-assignment issue with multiple matches (bug #1201). + - Fix an issue where channel names weren't updated correctly (bug #1089). + - Fix multiple decoder channel assignment issues (bug #1024). + - Fix an issue where channel auto-assignment was incorrectly applied. + * Fix an issue where decoder warnings weren't always shown (bug #982). + * Fix an issue with incorrect samplerates during multiple decoder runs. + * Fix a decoder restarting issue after reloading an input file. + * Fix an issue where existing decoder traces were not shown in new views. + * Fix an issue where stacked decoders weren't restored (bug #832). + * Fix an issue where decoder channel mappings were not restored (bug #831). + * Fix an issue where decoder options were not restored (bug #831). + * Fix an issue where not all decoder stacks were restored (bug #888). + * Fix an issue where header area tooltips were incorrectly shown. + * Fix trace resizing when new annotation classes appear. + * Fix an issue with ruler updating after restoring a session. + * Fix an issue with header resizing events. + * Fix an issue where decoders would not restart upon A2L conversion changes. + * Fix an issue with bit IDs which caused incorrect decode runs. + * Avoid a crash by ignoring invalid loglevel (-l option) specs (bug #1071). + * Fix an issue where settings callbacks could not be unregistered. + * Ruler tick legends now don't partly disappear when scrolled off the ends. + * Fix file extension filter in "Import File" dialog (bug #1039). + * Fix a crash when trying to save invalid trace ranges (bug #1038). + * Fix a crash related to A2L conversion changes (bug #1132). + * Fix a crash when config_list() was returning errors (bug #928). + * Fix a crash when config_get() was returning errors (bug #1035). + * Fix a crash when read_config() calls were failing. + * Fix a crash caused by incorrectly sized sample buffers (bug #1166). + * Fix an issue where decoder option changes affected other options (bug #1162). + * Resize trace when hiding/deleting a stacked PD. + * Only pass non-zero samplerate metadata to protocol decoders (bug #1118). + * Fix an issue when processing packets without sample data. + * Fix inconsistent decoder annotation colors upon multiple runs (bug #709). + * Fix two minor UI issues with the decoding "progress bar" display. + * Fix some voltage threshold UI widget and default value issues (bug #1149). + * Fix an issue when loading settings saved via older Boost lib (bug #1203). + * Avoid qDebug().noquote() for now, would require more recent Qt (bug #1169). + * Fix an issue where the last analog sample was not being shown (bug #956). + * Fix an issue where markers were not removed upon new sessions (bug #540). + * Fix an issue where the "show cursors" button wasn't working (bug #1212). + * Fix a crash by forbidding UI trigger changes during acquisitions (bug #807). + * Fix an issue where trigger markers would disappear (bug #1226). + * Fix a crash when running out of memory during acquisitions (bug #975). + * Fix an issue where multiple decoder traces would overlap (bug #1204). + * Fix an issue with silent failures during file loading (bug #1259). + * Avoid incorrectly hardcoded ConfigKey::SAMPLERATE (bug #651). + * Prevent some crashes when scanning for devices. + * Show a slightly more specific error for "Failed to select device". + * Remove the "1:1 zoom button" (bug #1198). + * Cache device triggers instead of querying multiple times (bug #979). + * Add new context menus (right-click in the trace area or header): + - Add annotation exporting support from a decoder's context menu: + All, only a specified row, all from mouse position, all between cursors. + - Add a facility to pause/resume decoding via a decoder's context menu. + - Add a "Create marker here" context menu item. + - Add "Set as zero point" context menu item. + - Header: Add an "Enable/disable mouse hover marker" context menu item. + * Settings: + - Enable the "show sampling points" setting by default. + - Enable the mouse hover marker by default. + - Add a "zoom-to-fit when acquisition stops" setting (bug #236). + - Add a "default div height" setting. + - Add a "logic trace height" setting. + - Add a "Show conversion thresholds in analog traces" setting. + - Add a "Show time zero at the trigger" setting. + - Show firmware and decoder search paths in the settings dialog (bug #1128). + - Show logs from libsigrok, libsigrokdecode, and PulseView itself. + - Change page list design, also fixes UI inconsistencies (bug #1095). + - Only show drivers PulseView will actually use (bug #1153). + - Make the version info in the dialog selectable for copy-paste (bug #1264). + - Add annotation export formatting setting. + - Add a setting for the snap-to-edge distance (in pixels). + * HACKING: Prefer git pull requests over mailing list patches. + * UI: Use slider instead of combo box for contiguous ranges. + * Reset and re-use existing decoder sessions (no full reconstruction). + * Trace view: Make the zero line for analog traces thicker. + * PulseView .desktop file: Fix a "desktop-file-validate" error. + * Add experimental (default-off) boost::stacktrace support. + * Add more options to show/hide certain channels (bug #1023): + - Enable: All / Logic / Analog / Unnamed / Non-chaning + - Disable: All / Logic / Analog / Named / Changing + * Build system: + - Set CMake policy CMP0071 to NEW (bug #1143). + - Set CMake policy CMP0054 to NEW, fixes a warning. + - Show a helpful message when libsigrokcxx is not found (bug #1199). + - Fix a build issue with ENABLE_DECODE=n. + * Windows: + - Have debug builds (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug) show/open a "DOS box". + - Fix a MinGW compile error due to a missing #include. + - Fix a Windows XP crash caused by a missing cast (bug #1125). + - Fix a Windows XP crash caused by incorrect segment handling (bug #1139). + - CMakeLists.txt: Only add Qt5PlatformSupport for Qt < 5.8.0. + - Fix a build issue on MSYS2 by applying an MXE workaround only on MXE. + - Installer: Add debug shortcut (Windows start menu) for -l 5. + - Installer: Add links to the HTML/PDF manual. + * Mac OS X: + - Fix a crash with large acquisitions on Mac OS X (bug #1284). + - Work around a QColor serialization bug on Mac OS X. + +0.4.0 (2017-06-12) +------------------ + + * Updated build requirements: + - A C++ compiler with full C++11 support (g++ >= 4.8.1 or clang++ >= 3.3) + - cmake >= 2.8.12 + - libglib >= 2.28.0 + - glibmm-2.4 >= 2.28.0 + - Boost >= 1.55: + - New requirement: libboost-serialization. + - Dropped requirement: libboost-thread. + - libsigrokcxx >= 0.5.0 (libsigrok C++ bindings) + - libsigrokdecode >= 0.5.0 + - Dropped support for Qt4; PulseView now requires Qt5. + * Add the concepts of sessions and views to PulseView: + - Sessions represent individual files/device instances. + Each session is represented as a tab in PulseView. + - Views are different data representations of one specific session. + For example, different views of a session can have different zoom levels, + can be scrolled to different positions, etc. etc. + Each view is a dock window within the respective session's tab. + - The view docks can be repositioned, resized and extracted out into their + own individual windows. + - Sessions and views are partially saved and restored when PulseView + exits/starts. Not all information is restored yet, though (e.g. decoders). + - Add CTRL-q to close PulseView, CTRL-w to close a session tab (bug #899). + * Add support for saving analog data to .sr files. + * Analog signal traces: + - Add initial implementation of a vertical grid for analog traces. + - Add a dropdown for the vertical resolution setting. + - Show the vertical resolution info on the right-hand side of the trace. + - Make the number of vertical/horizontal divisions configurable. + - Add an option to enable autoranging for analog channels. + * Add a settings icon which allows access to various PulseView config options. + * Settings -> About: + - Show the used libraries, versions, and features (bug #912). + - Fix word-wrapping of the driver/decoder/module names (bug #111). + * The menu bar and "burger menu" have been removed in favor of the + global settings menu (plus various buttons/icons and their hotkeys). + * UI and usability tweaks: + - Try to keep annotation labels within the view if there's enough space. + - Annotation labels can now be pushed aside by the row title. + - Use natural sort order for decode trace's channel selector drop-down. + - Improve icon/theme handling: Don't try to use non-existing theme icons. + - Add a pane splitter for the trace names/arrows, allowing horizontal resize. + - Show a confirmation dialog when closing sessions with unsaved data. + - Add tooltips to various UI elements to increase usability. + - Show a progress dialog while scanning for devices. + * Connect dialog: + - Improve UI to make it easier to use and understand. + - Allow for TCP and VXI connections to supported devices (bug #769). + - Clarify button label to "Scan for devices using driver above". + * Add support for showing the sampling points in traces (bug #485). + * Add support for specifying the (assumed) initial pin states before the + first sample that is being decoded. This can be set to 0/low, 1/high, or + to "use the same value as in the first sample". + * Add support for lists of discrete values for probe factor config. + * Add the -c option to not restore previous sessions on startup (bug #862). + * Performance improvements: + - Improved decoding performance due to larger chunk size. + - Increase session saving chunk size for much better performance. + * Open to-be-imported files in binary mode (bug #733). + * Startup: If last-used device is not available, use other available ones. + * Various internal code fixes and improvements found by clang-tidy. + * Add a check for explicit linking against libatomic (bug #810). + * Import/export/load: Allow file names without dots ("*" vs. "*.*"). + * Improve support for high-DPI displays and scaling (bug #871). + * Improve internal data storage and data handling algorithms. + * Remove FSF postal address from boiler plate license text. + * Fix a clang build issue related to 'override' (bug #737). + * Fix some zoom-dependent annotation block drawing issues (bug #745). + * Fix locking issues when trying to run multiple decoders (bug #181). + * Fix an exception due to incorrect handling of SR_CONF_FILTER. + * Fix an issue with multiple device/session creation upon file imports. + * Fix a drawing issue with "use coloured backgrounds" and markers (bug #771). + * Fix various issues to better handle re-loading of input files. + * Fix a build issue in the PulseView test-suite (bug #808). + * Fix a Qt5 bug related to QMainWindow SVG icons via workaround (bug #814). + * Fix a Boost-related build issue with gcc 6.2.x (bug #863). + * Fix an issue that prevented decoders from being removed (bug #849). + * Fix an issue with incorrect sample rate limits (bug #890). + * Fix decoding issues due to re-feeding old data (bugs #876, #850). + * Fix temporarily non-working 'b' and 's' hotkeys (bugs #907, #908) + * Fix an issue with std::roundf() on Android (bug #945). + * Fix an issue with negative vertical divisions on channel 0 (bug #940). + * Fix an issue when zero vertical divisions were configured (bug #942). + * Fix an issue with the file save progressbar remaining open (bug #895). + * Fix incorrect values when importing raw analog data (bug #958). + * Fix an issue with non-smooth zoom on e.g. some trackpads. + * Fix an issue where the horizontal scrollbar couldn't be moved (bug #957). + * Fix an issue with the pane positioning when loading files (bug #969). + * Fix an issue where the Run button would remain green incorrectly (bug #970). + * Fix a crash when input modules were yielding errors (bug #775). + * Fix a crash with stacked decoders on Mac OS X. + * Fix a crash when no device was found or selected. + * Fix a crash with selected but unusable devices (bug #805). + * Fix a crash when closing PulseView with active triggers (bug #705). + * Fix a crash that occured with certain glibmm versions (bug #777). + * Fix a crash when an unusable device is encountered (bug #829). + * Fix a negative cursor position "Save Selected Range As" crash (bug #792). + * Fix various other unrelated crash conditions. + * Add an AppData/AppStream file for PulseView (bug #859). + - Install the file to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/metainfo. + * .desktop file: + - Rename to org.sigrok.PulseView.desktop. + - Add MimeType=application/vnd.sigrok.session field (bug #858). + - Add additional Development category. + - Install the file to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/applications. + * Rename sigrok-logo-notext.{png,svg,ico} icons to pulseview.{png,svg,ico}. + - Install the icons to ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/icons/... + * NSIS: + - Update to Python 3.4.x. We can't use any higher version for the time + being, since 3.4.x is the last version to support Windows XP. + - Place the example .sr files in a separate installer section. + - Limit example .sr files to a small set to shrink the installer size. + - Clarify Start menu links (e.g. "Uninstall") to avoid confusion. + - Allow registering the .sr extension with PulseView (bug #964). + * manpage: Various updates (e.g. hotkeys, command-line options). + * Fix various compiler warnings. + 0.3.0 (2016-01-29) ------------------