JProfiler Changelog

What's new in JProfiler 14.0.2

Mar 12, 2024

New features:
Full support for Java 22 virtual threads
Support for virtual threads in HPROF snapshots
Support for OpenJPA 4 in the JPA/Hibernate probe
Bugs fixed:
Closing a popup for probe event types, control object types and thread liveness types other than with the control buttons in the popup or the keyboard shortcuts did not update the filters
For snapshots, adding a probe telemetry in the telemetry section showed a message to record data under some circumstances

New in JProfiler 14.0.1 (Jan 23, 2024)

New in JProfiler 13.0.7 (Jun 27, 2023)

New in JProfiler 13.0.6 (Mar 17, 2023)

New in JProfiler 13.0.5 (Jan 10, 2023)

New in JProfiler 13.0.4 (Oct 10, 2022)

New in JProfiler 13.0.3 (Aug 25, 2022)

New in JProfiler 13.0.2 (May 4, 2022)

New in JProfiler 13.0.1 (May 4, 2022)

New in JProfiler 13.0 (Jan 31, 2022)

New features:
Support for attaching to JVMs running in a Kubernetes cluster
Support for attaching to JVMs running in Docker Desktop on Windows and macOS
Support for attaching to OpenJ9 JVMs
Local attach: Added a user switcher to profile JVMs started by different users on Linux
Local attach: On Windows it is now possible to attach to a JVM started by the same user that runs in a different session
Local attach: Differing settings for the temporary directory no longer prevent jpenable on Windows to attach to a JVM when the PID is provided
Local attach: Elevated users can now attach to JVMs started by any user with jpenable on Windows when the PID is provided as long as the JProfiler installation is readable for that user
Remote attach: Support attaching to JVMs running in Redhat UBI-minimal images
Remote attach: FreeBSD and AIX are now supported
Support for profiling OpenWebStart
Sunburst diagram for the biggest objects view of the heap walker
Support for the Reactor Netty web client
Support for the Spring Webflux HTTP client
The "Java EE components" aggregation level is now called "JEE/Spring" and includes Spring classes that are annotated with @Component or derived annotations
Calls into proxy classes for profiled interfaces are now shown in the call tree. This adds support for a wide range of frameworks based on code generation.
Dark mode for documentation
Pressing the Delete key in view filter popups now deletes the selected entry
Streamlined integration wizards
Support for switching between light and dark mode on the fly
Adding the option ",loopback" to the -agentpath VM parameter for profiling will restrict connecting JProfiler clients to the current machine. This is added by default for sessions launched by JProfiler and by IDE integrations.
Reorganized general settings dialog
Async sampling mode is now supported on macOS ARM with Java 17
PHD dumps can now be taken without the presence of the java.management module on newer IBM VMs
CPU telemetry on Windows is now recorded without the presence of the java.management module
Added support for Hibernate 6
Added support for MariaDB connector 3
Added support for ktor 2
Added support for RestEasy 6
Added support for server side events in RestEasy, Jersey and CXF
Bugs fixed:
The controller MBean was not always added to an existing MBean server
Heap walker: In the incoming references view, node selections from the path to GC root search were not memorized when moving back and forth in the heap walker history
Call tree: Jumping to execution sites and to the probe call tree was not reliable
CPU threshold triggers were broken on non-Windows platforms
SSH password authentication did not work when connecting to FreeBSD 13
NetBeans plugin: Profiling Maven projects did not work for NetBeans 12.6
IDE integrations: When multiple JProfiler windows were opened from an IDE integration, some windows could not be used for standalone sessions anymore

New in JProfiler 12.0.4 (Sep 17, 2021)

New in JProfiler 12.0.3 (Jun 24, 2021)

New in JProfiler 12.0.2 (Mar 17, 2021)

New in JProfiler 12.0.1 (Jan 12, 2021)

New in JProfiler 12.0 (Nov 24, 2020)

New features:
Flame graphs
Support attaching to JVMs in Docker containers
Support for profiling on Alpine Linux
Support for profiling macOS arm64 JVMs
Support for Netty in the new HTTP Server probe
Remote attach: Support taking HPROF snapshots for non-root users that are not the SSH login user
Remote attach: Support connecting to machines where no JRE is available for the login user
Remote attach: Support SSH users that have no home directory or no writable home directory
Attach functionality now supports JVMs started with -agentpath
NetBeans plugin: Added an "Attach to running JVM" action
NetBeans plugin: Added preference page where JProfiler executable and new window option can be edited
Support for Jakarta EE 9
New cross-platform look and feel
Localization to Simplified Chinese
Hyperlinks in the UI are now focusable and can be used with the keyboard
Support mouse navigation buttons for all histories in the UI, including the view selector
Added a "Classes grouped by class loaders" inspection in the heap walker
Bugs fixed:
Source and bytecode navigation in stack trace lists did not work for methods that had a parameter of type short
The "Return to call tree" action in call tree analysis view in the probe section did not activate the correct probe view in case a different probe view was activated in the meantime
Top level objects in the reference views of the heap walker did not show object IDs if the "Show object IDs" setting was enabled
Websphere integration wizard did not work in offline mode
Fixed several UI problems when working with multiple monitors that have different DPI settings
Payload nodes in probe call tree did not handle line breaks well and very long payload strings tool a long time to render
Payload call tree did not work as expected for very large recordings
Integration wizard for profiling launchers generated by install4j did not work for app bundles on macOS
Remote attach: Using root as the SSH users did not work if the home directory of the root user was not readable by other users
Fixed problems with trackpad scrolling on macOS

New in JProfiler 11.1.4 (Jul 31, 2020)

New in JProfiler 11.1.3 (May 27, 2020)

New in JProfiler 11.1.2 (Mar 13, 2020)

New in JProfiler 11.1.1 (Feb 13, 2020)

New in JProfiler 11.1 (Jan 8, 2020)

New features:
Async sampling mode without safe-point bias on macOS and Linux
Native sampling on macOS and Linux
Support for opening JDK flight recorder snapshots
The new outlier detection view shows methods that have exceptionally slow invocations with respect to their average time
Async tracking now works with sampling
A "Show threads" action to the call tree and hot spot views to show all threads that contain the currently selected call stack
Call tree removal: Added an option to remove entire classes or packages, depending on the aggregation level
Call tree removal: Added an option to remove self-time only
Improved painting of zoomed out telemetries
Zooming in and out in telemetries now preserves the center of the view unless auto-scrolling is active
Telemetries can now be zoomed with CTRL + mouse wheel or zoom gestures on macOS
Zoom in and zoom out actions now work when scale to fit is active
Support for profiling on the Linux PowerPC Little Endian (PPCLE) architecture
Remote SSH attach and jpenable command line utility now work with a JVM that includes only the java.base module
Bugs fixed:
In some places, JProfiler used binary orders of magnitude (factors of 1024) instead of decimal orders of magnitude (factors of 1000)
Monitor tool tips in the thread history view were only shown if the locking history graph was shown before
Threshold spinner in the monitor usage history view did not react to the enter key
ZIP files could not be added in the source path selector in the session settings
Tree maps did not work for untimed call trees such as the exceptions probe
IntelliJ IDEA plugin: When profiling code that was compiled with JDK 11+, nested lambdas no longer had gutter icons for incoming and outgoing calls
Estimated retained class sizes were not shown for object arrays
"Retained size" column in heap walker did not respect the "Size scale" view setting if shallow sizes were selected as the primary measure
"Scale to fit" button in telemetry views did not propagate the new setting immediately to all other telemetry views
Wrong "without CPU recording" node was shown in payload hotspots for very large recordings
Attributes in MBean viewer were not sorted alphabetically
Fixed exception in heap walker when the heap contained contained a very large number of primitive arrays
Regression in JProfiler 11.0: Horizontal scrolling in views with table trees was broken
Fixed missing whitespaces in font rendering with 8u232+/11.0.6+ on Linux
SSH remote attach to 64-bit ARM platforms did not work
IDEA plugin: An exception was thrown in 2019.3 Ultimate Edition if the Grails plugin was disabled
IDEA plugin: Automatic package calculation did not work for Kotlin files
IDEA plugin: When profiling code that was compiled with JDK 11+, nested lambdas no longer had gutter icons for incoming and outgoing calls
IDEA plugin: When using the "Activate IDE" action in JProfiler, the IDE window was no longer raised since 2019.3

New in JProfiler 11.0.2 (Sep 17, 2019)

New in JProfiler 11.0.1 (Jul 5, 2019)

New in JProfiler 11.0 (Mar 19, 2019)

New features:
HTTP probe for outgoing requests
Remote request tracking for HTTP requests
"Inline Async executions" call tree analysis for call tree and hot spot views
Automatic detection of tracking types that would yield data in the currently profiled JVM
Async tracking status display above call tree views with relevant actions
Detect whether calls in non-profiled classes would create async calls and offer to record them
Async tracking for Kotlin Coroutines
New light and dark look and feels based on IntelliJ IDEA with HighDPI support for Windows and Linux
Non-interactive mode for jpcontroller
Automatic filter detection for IDE integrations
Allocation sampling
Restructured session settings dialog without the separate "Profiling settings" dialog
Default settings for new sessions on the "Session defaults" tab of the general settings dialog
The "Method call recording" tab of the default settings includes an option to switch off the "instrumentation or sampling" question for new sessions
Action to copy selected setting categories from other sessions in the session settings dialog
Less verbose and more human-readable config file format that does not write default settings
Ask the user whether to keep the previous settings when attaching to a JVM that is already profiled with different settings
For offline profiling, it is no longer necessary to specify a session ID in the -agentpath VM parameter if the config file only contains a single session
Using the "id" or "config" option in the -agentpath VM parameter now automatically activates the "Startup immediately" mode
It is now possible to use the ~ character in the "config" -agentpath VM parameter option to refer to the user home directory on all supported platforms
View settings are now global and do not have to be changed separately for each session
Heap walker: Support for recording primitive data in IBM JVMs
Heap walker: Support for all inspections with the IBM JVMs
File and process probes are supported for IBM 8+ JVMs
"Save HPROF snapshot" UI action and "Create an HPROF heap dump" trigger action now generate PHD dumps for OpenJ9 JVMs
SSH tunneling for floating licenses
Support combined public key and password authentications for SSH servers
Support encrypted key files for #PKCS5 and Putty
Cache manually entered JVM location for remote ssh quick attach
The password for the same private key is not queried repeatedly for multi-hop connections anymore
Heap walker: Show string values for char arrays in the outgoing reference view
Heap walker: Tabular display of the contents of char and byte arrays in the outgoing reference view
Heap walker: The "Direct calls to methods of unprofiled classes" node in the "Allocations" view can now be selected for creating a new object set
Heap walker: Added a total string size column to the grouping view produced by the "Duplicate strings" inspection
Support for profiling Java 12+
Terminate the launched process from eclipse and NetBeans IDE integrations if the session startup dialog is canceled
Added the JPROFILER_AGENT_OPTIONS environment variable to allow setting debug parameters for the agent in situations where the "-agentpath" VM parameter cannot be modified
"Trigger heap dump" action: Added an option for recording primitive data
Added quick search functionality to the detail dialog of nested tables in the probe control objects view
The servlet probe now intercepts all Jetty handlers, adding support for Javalin, Spark and ktor-jetty
Added a "Shorten packages" option in the view settings dialog of call tree and hot spot views
Support profiling on JVMs that only contain the java.base module
Improved CSV export: All numeric columns are exported as numbers and not as text, consistent display of units in the header row
Pressing Ctrl-C in data tables now copies the CSV lines to the clipboard
Bugs fixed:
Nested tables in the probe control objects view were broken when the sort order was changed
The ID column in the table for selecting a running JVM was not sorted numerically
Command line applications did not list JVMs in ascending order of their PID
For profiling sessions that were started from IDE integrations, changed settings were not saved immediately. When profiling the same session again, the previous settings would be used.
Expanded nodes were not kept when reloading a call tree analysis
Using multiple script probes or method triggers for the same method did not work
Statistics in detail dialog were not correct for the "Direct calls to methods of unprofiled classes" node in the heap walker and for the target method of a "Set as root" action
Quick search in the detail dialog produced wrong highlights if the displayed text contained DOS line breaks
The inline display of a string value in the heap walker reference views was cut off if the string contained a line break
Adding more instances in the incoming or outgoing reference views of the heapwalker after using the heapwalker navigation broke the display
When exporting the entire tree in the heap walker allocation view, the UI would hang with a progress dialog
In the heap walker allocation views, icons for all nodes were shown with the decoration for unprofiled classes
Heap and thread dumps that were triggered in the agent were only displayed in a connected JProfiler UI if the corresponding view was activated at least once
"Analyze" action was permanently disabled after stopping and starting a session in the same window
The last chosen export format was not remembered for each view type
The action to show differences between two thread dumps could throw an exception
Command line export applications on Linux with Java 8 could throw exceptions because of the Gnome accessibility bridge
Fixed various problems with the icon overlays for unprofiled methods in the hot spot views
The "profile" Gradle task did not work with Gradle 5+
Quick search in call trees did not work for payloads and method arguments
Following a payload hyperlink from the call tree view into the "Class loaders" probe did not select call tree view
Non-functional call site hyperlinks were shown in probe views
Regression in 10.0: Quick search in call trees did not find all results anymore

New in JProfiler 10.1.6 (Jan 15, 2019)

New in JProfiler 10.1.5 (Jan 11, 2019)

New in JProfiler 10.1.4 (Oct 12, 2018)

New in JProfiler 10.1.3 (Sep 9, 2018)

New in JProfiler 10.1.2 (Jun 13, 2018)

New in JProfiler 10.1 Build 10184 (Feb 26, 2018)

New features:
New documentation that has been rewritten from the ground up
Documentation is now also available as an eBook in epub and Kindle formats
Context-sensitive help relating to UI elements is now available directly in the UI
Redesigned APIs for custom probes
The new injected probe API replaces the old API and can be used to write probe for 3rd party products
The new embedded probe API makes it possible to write self-contained probes for your own code and ship them together with your product
Script probes that can be configured directly in the JProfiler UI and allow you to add payloads to the call tree, similar to the SQL strings of the JDBC probe
A Gradle plugin for automating profiling and invoking the command line tools
New merged reference views in the heap walker
A "Merged dominating references" view in the heap walker
Class and class loader groupings in the biggest object view in the heap walker
Support for the MongoDB Async Driver
Support for MongoDB 3.6
Support for running the JProfiler UI and all command line tools on Java 9
Support for compiling scripts in JProfiler with Java 9 JREs
Support for profiling Java 10
Improved the startup time of the JProfiler UI
Removed the "Live instances" GC root in the heap walker, so it is easier to solve class loader leaks
Added an overview telemetry for probes like for the VM telemetries, so you can see all telemetries of a probe at once
Implemented quick search in the node detail dialog
Added an export option for including the session name in the suggested file name
Added configurable time scales for the call graph and the table views in the "Monitors & Locks" view section
Added configurable time scales for method statistics view, one for the total time column and one for all other columns
Executor request tracking can now reliably track multiple usages of the same Runnable instance
Added request tracking support for classic EJBs on Wildfly 11
Graph views: Ctrl+Space (Cmd+Space on macOS) toggles selection of highlighted nodes when quick search is active
eclipse IDE integration: Improved source navigation to lambda methods and anonymous classes
The session settings for snapshots are now unmodifiable to prevent confusion
Added a "Run GC" trigger action
Bugs fixed:
Heap walker: The path to GC root search did not prefer shortest paths and opened unhelpful nested GC roots when multiple roots should be found
Method splitting: Fixed a call tree corruption that occurred if an unprofiled split method threw an exception
Method splitting: The hyperlink for resetting the splitting cap was not displayed in the call tree
When opening a snapshot and choosing the deobfuscation option in the file chooser, choosing "None" as the deobfuscator prevented opening of the snapshot
MBean browser: The filter text field for the MBean tree was broken
Unfreezing the monitor history view or the locking history graph removed all extra tool bar buttons
Command line comparisons: Using the "sortByTime" option could lead to a ConcurrentModificationException
jpanalyze did not work with a floating license server
Probes could prevent classloader garbage collection by holding on to instrumented classes
Heap walker: If selecting retained objects with the "Thread locals" inspection, weakly referenced objects could be included
Heap walker: The "Thread locals" inspection threw an exception when no thread locals were present
Scripts did not resolve classes from directory class path entries that contained JAR files
Regression in 9.2: Monitor tool tips in thread history views were not displayed anymore
Applying overhead hot spots did not save the session settings, so these changes could easily get lost
eclipse IDE integration: The preference page did not show the JProfiler executable when no profiling session had been started yet after performing the integration from the JProfiler UI
Quick search in the locking history graph did not work
Disabling request tracking in the profiling settings did not completely disable all tracking types
After applying new profiling settings in a live profiling session, it was not possible to add or edit custom telemetries
The time in the header of the live allocation views was not updated if the view was recalculated from the "Show classes" analysis or due to a call tree root change
Status bar information when hovering over tool tips in graphs were hidden after a short time in live sessions
Heap walker: Stack traces in the node detail dialog of the incoming references view were wrapped unless the detail dialog was shown with the "Show more" hyperlink
macOS: Repeated use of the right arrow key did not select first child nodes in trees other than call trees
Class tracker: It was not possible to select the tracked class for the command line export
When the "Expand entire tree" option was selected in the export options dialog of the hot spots view, the export would hang
The default thread status for the method statistics command line export as well as for the probe call tree and probe hot spot command line comparisons was "Runnable" and not "All states" like in the GUI.
Fixed a rare deadlock at startup when profiling Java 1.6 VMs
File watcher thread and some NIO channels were shown in the runnable thread state
There was no auto-update for floating probe views if the probe was not selected in the main window
It was possible to invoke the "Add exceptional method", "Split method with a script" and the "Add method trigger" action for native and abstract methods that cannot be instrumented
Under some circumstances, the initial window size on macOS could be minimal, only showing the window controls
When saving a snapshot with jpcontroller and the specified relative path was not writable, a message with the wrong absolute path was written to the terminal
For generic types, the code editor suggested non-public methods and fields in code completion

New in JProfiler 10.0.4 Build 10084 (Oct 7, 2017)

New in JProfiler 10.0.3 Build 10078 (Jul 21, 2017)

New in JProfiler 10.0.2 Build 10069 (Jun 22, 2017)

New in JProfiler 10.0.1 Build 10046 (Mar 31, 2017)

New in JProfiler 10.0 Build 10019 (Mar 8, 2017)

NEW FEATURES:
Zero-configuration remote attach and HPROF heap dumps via SSH
Complexity analysis view for analyzing the Big-O behavior of selected methods
Ability to pin, close and re-calculate call tree analyses
Call tree analyses for the call tree graph
Show the time when the data for the call tree analysis was collected
"Show classes" call tree analysis in the live memory section
New object analysis in the heap walker
"Mark heap" action to determine the base line for the new object analysis in the heap walker, also in the API and as a trigger action
Added a type filter option in the reference views of the heap walker with an optional instanceof behavior
"Show fields with null values in outgoing references view" option now also works for static fields
The toString() filter in the outgoing references view of the heap walker now also supports java.lang.Class objects for snapshots
"JVM exit action" in the session startup dialog for saving and immediately opening a snapshot when the JVM exits
Remote integration wizards now support SSH-connections
Added the option to synchronize the config file via SSH
Remote integration wizard: Added an "Edit Session And Synchronize Config" button on the "Finish step" that is visible if the config file has to be synchronized to a remote location before the session can be started
IDEA: For Java and Kotlin, the call graph can be displayed in the gutter of source editors with incoming and outgoing calls in popups
IDEA: List of hot spots is shown in the IDE, providing entry points for performance analysis
IDEA: Jump actions into JProfiler that show nodes in the call graph or call tree analyses for back traces and outgoing calls in the call graph
IDEA: Recording controls in the JProfiler tool window
IDEA: Profiling settings are now on a project-level basis with the option for each run configuration to make them run-configuration-specific
IDEA: Support for profiling Grails run configurations
IDEA: Ability to skip the session settings dialog on a per-run configuration basis
IDEA: For test run configurations, automatically save a snapshot when the JVM exits
IDEA: Reliable window foreground activation when switching between the IDE and the JProfiler windows
IDEA: Improved source code navigation for Java, including precise determination of lambda call sites
IDEA: Support for Kotlin source code navigation
IDEA: Activate IDE button in JProfiler window that is visible for IDE integrations
Configurable cap on call tree splitting
"Replace literals in unprepared statements" and "Keep literals for events view" options for the JDBC probe
Local attach can now attach to Windows servers running with accounts other than a system account
Added an option to switch off native instrumentation on the "Method call recording" tab of the profiling settings
The call graph can now optionally use the view filter that is set in the call tree view
Added a filter field to the class selection dialog
JRE configuration dialog: Added a "Purge" action to remove JREs that do not exist anymore
Hot spot and objects comparisons now show entries that do not appear in both snapshots. The view settings have an option to limit the comparison to common entries.
Hot spots views: Added an option for displaying total times instead of self times
Added a "Synchronize Config File" action to the context menu of the session list that is visible for remote sessions with configured config synchronization
The view filters in the hot spots view are now de-coupled from the view filters in the call tree views
Tooltips and legends in stacked telemetries now show total values
The "Heap" memory pool in the "Memory" telemetry now shows the maximum heap size in the legend
The non-modal detail dialog now always shows method signatures for views with call trees
Support for HBase 1.3
Support for Cassandra DataStax driver 3.1
Support for mongoDB 3.4
Support for Axis2 1.7 and CXF 3.1
BUG FIXES:
Blocking and waiting thresholds for monitor recording were not used if monitor recording was started by a recording profile
Call tree comparison: Jump nodes of recorded probes were displayed in the tree
Could not modify other sessions in start center when a snapshot was loaded
Heap walker: In the classes view, an exception was thrown when trying to sort by the "Retained size" column
Fixed process probe for Java 9 on non-windows platforms
Control objects were not reset when probe recording was restarted and the view was not shown
Probe control objects view: Calendar time was shown for missing end times
Alert dialogs on Windows were not ant-aliased under Alloy L&F
Do not add snapshots that are used in the command line export to the list of recent snapshots
"Show Selection In Heap Walker" action did not work in the "Current monitors" and "Monitor history" views
Map attributes in the MBean browser were not sorted
Fixed a problem with orders of magnitudes in telemetry tool tips
Applying new profiling settings did not work for ssh connections

New in JProfiler 9.2.1 Build 9246 (Dec 6, 2016)

New in JProfiler 9.2 Build 9237 (Jun 23, 2016)

New features:
Probe call tree view
Probe call tree comparison
Hyperlinks in the CPU call tree that link to the probe call tree (if payloads are not annotated directly into the call tree)
Exceptions probe
Merging and unmerging of call tree splitting on the fly
Call tree removal action for "what if" scenarios, also limiting the displayed data in hot spots view and call graph
Quick info for selected call tree nodes in the node detail dialog
Set root functionality and call tree analyses in allocation views
Improved snapshot loading performance
Show which views can contain profiling data in snapshots
Offer a list of recently loaded snapshots
Probe comparisons: Restrict the displayed built-in probes to the probes that were actually recorded in the selected snapshots
Command line comparisons and export: Fail with an error message if the required data has not been recorded
Heap walker: Added a view filter selector and a total line in the classes view
Heap walker: Show thread dumps for HPROF snapshots
Heap walker: For HPROF snapshots, a "show more" link in Java stack GC roots shows the entire stack trace in the node detail window
Heap walker: The stack reference inspections now allow you to select a specific thread
Heap walker: The reference views now have a "Run script on selected instance" action
Heap walker: Collection content selection and compact cumulated references now also work for java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap instances
JPA/Persistence probe: Support for Hibernate 5.2
Graphs are now exported as inline SVG (vector graphics) with tool tips for edges
Exceptional methods can now be in non-profiled classes
Added a "Common exceptional methods" menu to the add menu of the exceptional method configuration
Reduced overhead for exceptional method recording
Configurable cap on payload string lengths on the "Probes & JEE" tab of the profiling settings
Command line tools jpenable, jpdump and jpcontroller now work with Java 6+ (previously Java 7+)
File probe: With the "file path filter script" in the probe configuration, you can limit the scope of the measured file I/O
Quick search: Support paste keyboard action when quick search is active
Support custom Axis2 web service stubs and Apache HTTP client version 4.x for web service tracking
Support async web service tracking for Java 7 and 8, Axis2 and CXF
XHR tracking now supports Chrome 51+
Command line export and comparisons: Added -viewfiltermode and -viewfilteroptions parameters to configure view filters
Command line export and comparisons: Added -csvseparator option to change the CSV separator
Improved keyboard navigation with view change actions, see the "Window" menu for more information
Bugs fixed:
The inline display of the selected call tree did not display call tree splitting nodes correctly
Total row did not work in comparison views
Exporting large call trees from the command line is now much faster
When multiple call tree views were undocked, expansion of the call tree could lead to stuck "Expecting data" nodes
Auto-update information for allocation views was not shown in the status bar
Change the recursion display in the call tree analyses views to be less intrusive
For snapshots recorded in offline mode, the "Select in Heap walker" action in various views was not disabled if no heap dump was taken
Fixed blinking wait cursor on update in the probe hot spots views
Heap Walker: Stack traces in allocation selection step descriptions could show escaped characters
If the same snapshot is opened again, a warning is now shown with the offer to show the existing window
When config dialogs were shown in undocked views, the window order could be wrong
Do not ask "Create session" question when the profiling session has been started from an IDE integration
Coloring of percentage bars in "Calculate backtraces" analysis is now consistent and depends on selected summation mode
Export and view settings actions were not consistently enabled or disabled when views were undocked
Heap dump options dialog was broken when the heap walker was undocked
Web start sessions did not work with recent JREs
Fixed NPE in eclipse plugin when profiling servers
View filter case sensitivity was broken
Netbeans integration wizard did not suggest the correct location of config directory on Mac OS X
Regression in 9.1: MBean selection view in telemetry config was not updated if the MBean browser had already been used
Telemetry comparisons were clipped at the edges (regression in 9.1)
Command line allocation tree comparison: Could not set -aggregation option
Command line telemetry comparisons: The -measurements option had no effect
Command line threads telemetry comparison: It was not possible to compare the number of waiting threads
Probe hot spots comparison did not have "all thread states" as the default thread status selection
CPU call tree comparisons: Payloads were not properly sorted and not merged into single payload container nodes when setting view filters
"Undock view" action was not aligned in menus and had an incorrect key binding in the popup menu on the snapshot comparison frame
Call tree and probe call tree comparisons: Expansion state of the tree was not preserved when changing view filters or view settings
Heap walker: When "Show fields with null values in outgoing references view" was selected in the view settings, non-null references could not be expanded in the outgoing reference view
Probe telemetries: Current values in legend entries were not displayed under some circumstances
Convert local to remote wizard: Profiling settings were not copied to the newly created session
When attaching to Windows services, the progress dialog for starting the service detection helper is now cancellable, so the UI does not get stuck in the case of an error
HTML export for probe control objects views did not work if there were nested property tables
Files probe: Fixed recording of file channels opened with NIO.2 methods
Call tree history navigation with root changes or request tracking could fail under some circumstances
Command line exports: Times are now exported as plain numbers in CSV exports
Heap walker: compact cumulated references did not work for java.util.WeakHashMap instances
Probe descriptions could be lost and entries were shown as "null"
Locking graphs and thread history: Monitor tooltips were shown behind the main window on Linux
Filter indicator on call tree node icons did not work correctly in the call tree analyses when view filters were set

New in JProfiler 9.1.1 Build 9143 (Jan 12, 2016)

New in JProfiler 9.1 Build 9128 (Nov 18, 2015)

New features:
Connection leak detection in the JDBC probe
Built-in SSH tunneling for remote profiling
Telemetry overview showing all system and custom telemetries together
Diff view for thread dumps
Thread locals inspection in heap walker
Support for profiling modularized applications on Java 9
Support for profiling on Linux ARMv8
Shortened package names displayed in graph nodes, configurable with a view setting
Improved scroll and zoom behavior in graphs, including pinch-to-zoom on Mac OS X
Call graph: Outgoing calls are now always from the right side of the node
Call graph: Opening outgoing calls first opens the important nodes as configured in the view settings, only on the second click it opens all nodes
Clicking on edges in graphs jumps to the target node if invisible, Ctrl/Cmd+Click jumps to the origin node
Edges in graphs show tool tips if one or both nodes are invisible
Ctrl/Cmd+C in graphs copies text from the selected node or the tool tip text if no nodes are selected
Quick search in graphs
Undo/Redo actions for all changes to graphs
Call tree analysis for collapsing recursions
Call tree analysis for showing cumulated outgoing calls of a selected method
Call tree analysis for showing the backtraces to a selected method
Improved call tree filters to distinguish "compact" and "ignored" filters
Recording actions for probe events
Tool tips for telemetry views that snap to measured data points and show measurements for all data lines
Retina support on Mac OS X
"Set root" action in call tree now limits data in hot spots view and call graph
Support for MongoDB driver 3.x with both old and new API
Heap walker: It's now possible to retain finalizer references in the heap dump options, also the weak reference inspections can retain finalizer references
MBean browser: Always add "ObjectName" attribute
MBean browser: Show keys in MBean tree
MBean browser: Search now also works on folders
Show non-modal messages for "Run GC" and "Save snapshot" actions
HTTP splitting scripts and method splitting scripts can now be disabled
Implemented the "CPU load" telemetry for IBM VMs
Redesigned inspections view in the heap walker
Improved config of weak reference and stack reference inspections
Added "Case sensitive" and "Use camel humps" options for quicksearch, enabled by default
Bugs fixed:
Thread dumps view: Line numbers were not exported to HTML or copied to the clipboard
Improved detection of physical JDBC connections
Thread name changes were not tracked on Mac OS X with Java 7+
Very large reference graphs or call graphs graphs would block the UI when nodes were opened
Method graph was re-layouted when nodes were removed
Mac OS X: Repeated use of the right arrow key did not open the call tree along the line of the maximum performance impact
Call tree view filters did not work as expected in several ways
When using inspections, some views could be empty when going back in the heap walker browser history
Calling Controller.triggerHeapDump() and Controller.triggerThreadDump() when the agent is not loaded printed an exception instead of an error message
Overhead of MBean browser could be high
"analyze" and "export" ant tasks did not have attributes for deobfuscation
"analyze" ant task did not have options for selecting retained reference types
File probe did not work correctly with streams created before recording started
Regression in 9.0: "Recorded objects" and "All objects" views did not contain primitive arrays when viewed in a snapshot

New in JProfiler 9.0.2 Build 9053 (Jul 16, 2015)

New in JProfiler 9.0.1 Build 9047 (Jun 18, 2015)

New in JProfiler 9.0 Build 9039 (Jun 9, 2015)

New features:
MBean browser
JavaScript XHR tracking from the browser into a profiled VM, with call tree splitting in the call tree view
Custom telemetries, featuring MBean attribute and script data sources
Multi-level HTTP call tree splitting, with freely configurable scripts
Method splitting in the call tree
HPROF heap dump option in attach dialog brings functionality of "jpdump" to the JProfiler GUI
Support PHD file format written by IBM Java 8 JREs
Heap walker: Added a "Stack referenced" inspection
Heap walker: Separate options for removing soft, weak and phantom references when taking a heap dump
Heap walker: Improved the "Weakly referenced objects" inspection with functionality matching the new selective weak reference removal for the heap dump
Heap walker: Added a view option "Show fields with null values in outgoing reference views"
Heap walker: Display retained reference types in the description of the initial object set
All scripts in JProfiler are now passed a "scriptContext" parameter that allows you to save state between subsequent invocations
"Remote attach" option for Quick attach, enabling remote attach for all IDE integrations
Improved view filters in call tree views with more filtering options
Thread dump view: Also record and display the thread status
The "direct calls" node in the call tree that is shown for sampling does not participate in percentage calculations anymore and is always shown last with a distinct icon
"All objects" and "recorded objects" views: Aggregate classes with the same name like in the heap walker
When using a config file to provide profiling settings from startup, it is no longer necessary to copy the "classes" directory with compiled JProfiler scripts
Bugs fixed:
Request tracking: Calls to executor methods could be too fast for microsecond resolution, in this case a call site method could be filtered and its information was lost
Heap walker: When searching for path to roots in the incoming references view, an "Expecting data" node could be left over after the operation
View filters in call tree views could not match unprofiled nodes
Eclipse integration failed if the previous eclipse installation directory was deleted
Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA integrations: Source navigation did not always highlight the selected method
When using attach mode with sampling, the call tree could contain two separate Thread.run() nodes
During class unloading situations, wrong class names could be attributed to newly loaded classes
Fixed window size problems with multi-monitor setups on Linux
File->Open did not work for snapshots in IDEA 14.1
Fixed a race condition when recording probes together with sampling

New in JProfiler 8.1.4 Build 8176 (Mar 10, 2015)

New in JProfiler 8.1.3 Build 8172 (Feb 26, 2015)

New in JProfiler 8.1.2 Build 8164 (Jan 21, 2015)

New in JProfiler 8.1.1 Build 8148 (Oct 22, 2014)

New in JProfiler 8.1 Build 8140 (Sep 26, 2014)

New features:
Heap walker: Much larger snapshots can be opened, and no -Xmx tuning is required anymore
Heap walker: Opening snapshots is much faster, especially for large snapshots
Heap walker: HPROF is offered as a minimum-overhead alternative
Added the command line executable "jpdump" for easily extracting HPROF snapshots from arbitrary Java processes
Snapshots can now be deobfuscated, with support for ProGuard and yGuard
Dynamic legend for all views that show a tree, explaining all icons, abbreviations and special terms
Support for profiling on Linux ARM hard float
MongoDB probe: Support for current versions of the MongoDB Java driver
Cassandra probe: Support for Apache Cassandra 2.x
Support for NetBeans 8
Support for eclipse 4.4
Native file choosers and alerts on Windows and Mac OS X
For CSV exports, the separator is now configurable
Redesigned and more useful quick-start dialog
Attach functionality has been moved to the start center
Added command line export for the method statistics view
Added view filter information to HTML exports
Added starting and stopping of probe recording to the jpcontroller command line executable
Temporary directory selection is now more flexible: "jprofiler.tmpdir" VM parameter, "JPROFILER_TMPDIR" environment variable, and "java.io.tmpdir" VM parameter are used in that sequence for the profiling agent and the GUI
You can now add both the "nowait" and the "config/id" options to the -agentpath VM parameter without a license key in the referenced config.xml file
The bytecode viewer is now Java 8 compatible
Bugs fixed:
Large heap dumps from offline snapshots were not loaded
Heap walker: The "Calculate estimated retained sizes" link in the classes view was visible even if retained sizes were not calculated for the heap dump
Heap walker: The current view could be changed while data was loading, leading to a race condition
Heap walker: The outgoing references view did not show primitive fields for objects without reference fields
Heap walker: Outgoing array references were unsorted
The GUI from the "Demo server" sample session did not work on Mac OS X with Java 7+
For request tracking across different VMs, the execution site chooser dialog was not brought to the front
Relative files in the configured session class path were not correctly resolved for class and method selectors
Support for Java language levels 1.7 and 1.8 in the code snippet editor
Regression: Thread start tracking was partially broken in 8.0
Fixed race condition in command line export
HTML export did not correctly export plus-minus signs, as well as the call site and execution site icons
HTML export for the method statistics view was missing the thread status information
If a socket cannot be bound by the profiling agent, don't exit or crash, but continue without a connection
Attach functionality did not work if the system property java.io.tmpdir was set for the JProfiler GUI

New in JProfiler 8.0.7 Build 8077 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in JProfiler 8.0.5 Build 8064 (Mar 28, 2014)

New in JProfiler 8.0.4 Build 8057 (Feb 19, 2014)

New in JProfiler 8.0.3 Build 8054 (Jan 14, 2014)

New in JProfiler 8.0.2 Build 8045 (Dec 3, 2013)

New in JProfiler 8.0.1 Build 8036 (Jul 31, 2013)

New in JProfiler 8.0 Build 8022 (Jul 18, 2013)

New in JProfiler 7.2.3 (Jun 21, 2013)

New in JProfiler 7.2.2 (Jan 17, 2013)

New in JProfiler 7.2.1 (Nov 16, 2012)

New in JProfiler 7.2 (Sep 28, 2012)

New features:
RMI probe
Web services probe
Offline profiling can be set up with the jpenable command line utility
URL request splitting in the call tree is now support for sampling as well
Heap walker: Compact incoming references in the heap walker for selected data structures such as linked lists
Heap walker: New inspections for class inheritance and class loading
Heap walker: Show method and thread information for incoming references from the stack
Heap walker: Cumulated incoming reference view shows percentages, counts and sizes based on the top-level row
Heap walker: Added a "Show unreferenced objects" action in the cumulated incoming references view
Heap walker: The "Duplicate strings" inspection now shows the string length instead of the shallow size
Heap walker: Less indeterminate progress information when taking a heap dump
Heap walker: If a class object is selected in the reference views, the "Use" menu now contains a "Use instances of selected java.lang.Class objects" entry
IDE plugin for eclipse 4.2
Support for directly loading gzipped HPROF snapshots
Command line arguments for jpenable and jpcontroller to connect to known pid and profiling port
Reliability improvements for the IBM JVM
20% overhead reduction for instrumentation
View filters now support the wildcards * and ? also for packages
Probe telemetries with multiple lines are now shown as stacked area graphs by default with line graphs as an option
Dynamic memory views and heap walker classes view: Group classes by their name, showing the number of distinct classes in brackets
Monitor history is now reset when monitor recording is started. It's much easier to analyze use-cases that way.
Cross link action from monitor statistics view to monitor history view
Netbeans and IDEA integrations do not write into the installation directory of the IDE anymore
Integration wizards: Select 64-bit JVM by default or 32-bit if the current JVM is 32-bit
Heap walker, outgoing references view: The filter value dialog for character values now accepts strings instead of characters separated by semicolons
Integration wizard for eclipse Virgo 2.x and 3.x
Integration wizard for Apache Geronimo 3.x
Integration wizard for Oracle Weblogic 12c
Integration wizard for Coldfusion 10
Integration wizard for ObjectWeb Jonas 5.x
Bugs fixed:
In some situations, the hot spot views showed too few hot spots due to a percentual cutoff. Now, a minimum of 100 hot spots will be shown.
Do not use file extensions to determine the type of a snapshot (jps, hprof or gzipped hprof)
Call tree view: In some situations, the payload times could be inconsistent in snapshots
Class path browser and class selector progress dialogs could not be canceled
JRE search wizard in the general settings dialog was broken
Heap walker: After showing a path to a GC root in the "Incoming references" view, closing and re-opening nodes in that path could break the tree
jpintegrate did not ask if the profiled JVM was 64-bit or not, so the modifications were always for 32-bit JVMs
Heap walker reference views: CSV export did not work if a "more instances" node was present
Support both hard-float and soft-float version of Linux ARM
Quick attach did not work with OpenJDK on Mac OS X
IDE integrations on Mac OS X did not work if OpenJDK 7 was the default JDK
Offline mode in integration wizards was broken (regression in 6.2)
Some probe events from completely unprofiled call stacks were not shown in the probe hotspots view
When applying new profiling settings, IDE source code navigation was lost
String inspections did not work when profiling an OpenJDK JVM on Mac OS X
Could not select config directories of IDEA and Netbeans on Linux/Unix and Mac OS X when performing IDE integrations
Fixed VerifyError on IBM 1.7 with object serialization

New in JProfiler 7.1.2 (Jun 18, 2012)

New in JProfiler 7.1.1 (Jun 18, 2012)

New in JProfiler 7.1 (Jan 26, 2012)

New in JProfiler 7.0 (Jul 22, 2011)

New in JProfiler 6.2 Build 6229 (Feb 14, 2011)

New in JProfiler 6.1.4 (Feb 14, 2011)

New in JProfiler 6.1.3 (Feb 14, 2011)

New in JProfiler 6.1.2 (Jan 20, 2011)

New in JProfiler 6.1.1 Build 6137 (Dec 21, 2010)

New in JProfiler 6.1 Build 6133 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 6.0.6 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 6.0.5 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 6.0.4 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 6.0.3 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 6.0.2 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 6.0.1 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 6.0 (Oct 23, 2010)

New features:
Current locking and locking history graphs
Thread dumps view
Method statistics view
Exceptional method runs: Analyze the slowest executions of selected methods in detail
"Tree map" view mode in all call tree views and the biggest objects view of the heap walker
Auto-tuning for dynamic instrumentation: Methods with disproportional overhead will be suggested for a list of ignored methods
Simplified manual configuration of profiling with a single -agentpath VM parameter for Java 5+
Changing profiling settings without restarting the profiled JVM for Java 6+
Loading snapshots from IDE integrations
Support for FreeBSD x86 and Linux PPC
Thread history view: Tool tips with stack traces and links to the monitor section
Monitor history view: Integration with the new locking graphs
Call tracer: Added stack trace context information
Configurable levels and threshold for expansion in call trees
"Select in heap walker" actions now also work with snapshots. In live sessions you will be asked whether to use the current heap dump or whether to take a new one
Conditional recording of the monitor event history
Profiling without waiting at startup (nowait mode) does not require a config file for Java 6+ anymore
Minimum number of significant digits for data feed labels in VM telemetries
New icon set for Windows Vista/Windows 7 and all other non-Windows XP platforms
Remember window sizes for JProfiler frames
IDE integration for Netbeans 6.8 with support for profiling Glassfish v3
IDE integration for IntelliJ Idea 9
Integration wizard for JBoss 5.1
Integration wizard for Glassfish v3
Integration wizard for Coldfusion 9
Integration wizard for Oracle Weblogic 11g
Bugs fixed:
Fixed exception in command line integration wizard
Method trigger configuration: Browse in profiled classes did not work
Fixed performance regression in the selection of the heap walker time view with JRE 1.6 update 10 and higher
IDE integrations: Deselecting the "Open new window" option did not always work
Selecting primitive arrays in the heap walker from other views was not possible
Fixed problem with repeated docking and undocking of profiling views
Red markers for unprofiled classes in call tree views were sometimes incorrect
Native console for local sessions did not work on Windows Vista and Windows 7

New in JProfiler 5.2.4 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.2.3 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.2.2 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.2.1 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.2 (Oct 23, 2010)

New features:
Much lower memory overhead on the profiled JVM when taking a heap snapshot
Much lower memory overhead when opening snapshots with heap dumps or HPROF snapshots
Much lower memory overhead when opening snapshots with lots of CPU data (for snapshots saved with 5.2+)
CPU data of dead threads is now stored to disk periodically to decrease the memory overhead on the profiled JVM
Added "JVM startup" and "JVM exit" triggers
Enabling and disabling triggers from the GUI and the API
Trigger groups that can be enabled or disabled together
Trigger action and API for controlling the call tracer
"Trigger heap dump" trigger action now also works in online mode
Method trigger: Added "ignore recursive calls" option, enabled by default
Status indicators and quick switches for allocation recording, memory recording and trigger execution in the status bar
"Edit bookmarks" dialog to show, edit and export all bookmarks
Export bookmarks from the command line by specifying the "Bookmarks" as the view name
Line style and color of bookmarks can be edited
Heap walker, time view: Added a "Select between bookmarks" action to select all objects allocated between two bookmarks.
Session import and export
Command line integration wizard ($JPROFILER_HOME/bin/jpintegrate)
View filters for snapshot comparison views
Hiding of selected nodes in call tree and hot spot views
Support for HP-UX on Itanium
Bundled IDE integrations for IDEA 8, JDeveloper 11g and Netbeans 6.5
Better user experience for slow operations in the heap walker
Better resize behavior of table columns
The difference columns in the "All objects", "Recorded objects" and "Allocation hot spots" views now show percentages as well. A view setting for switching between sort by value and sort by percentage has been added.
Command line export: Added parameter -viewfilters=[comma-separated list] for both export and comparisons to apply view filters to the exported view
Hidden messages can be enabled again on the "Miscellaneous" tab of the general settings dialog
Added "Do not show again" option for several messages
Integration wizard for Apache jsvc services
All integration wizards now support offline profiling
JDBC calls and other payload nodes in the call tree now show average times in brackets if this was selected in the view settings
Call graph: Added a "Remove all but selected nodes" action to the context menu
Allocation views: Added option to auto-update data periodically
Added menu item Session->Close Session to revert a window to its original state
Snapshot comparisons: The object comparison now has an option to compare objects in heap snapshot. In that way, HPROF heap snapshots can be compared as well.
Support for web start sessions on Mac OS X
Integration wizard for Websphere 7.0
Integration wizard for IBM Websphere community edition 2.x
Integration wizard for Jetty 6.x
Integration wizard for the Tanuki service wrapper
Integration wizard for Coldfusion 8
Integration wizard for Glassfish v3
Support for the IBM 1.6 JVM
Bugs fixed:
Quick search feedback in table views was broken under some circumstances
JDBC calls and other payload nodes in the call tree did not fully respect time scale settings in the view settings
Threads were not sorted alphabetically in the thread selector of the CPU views
Bookmarks created with the API were sometimes not transmitted immediately
When modifying trigger settings, the config file was not updated after closing the session settings dialog
Call tree comparison: When reloaded classes with the same name contributed to the same call stack, the comparison was faulty at that node
Remote integration wizard: If the installation directory of JProfiler on the remote machine was specified with a trailing file separator, the modification instructions were wrong or the integration failed.
Call tree view: "Show all" action after "Set as root" action did not always work correctly.
Web start sessions: The chooser button for JNLP URLs in the application settings did not show any results from a Java 6 installation (new cache format).
Web start sessions did not work with Java 1.6.0 update 10 and higher
"Hot spots" view: For hot spot types other than methods, average times and invocation counts were not displayed if "Sampling" was selected as the method call recording type, even though this information is always available.

New in JProfiler 5.1.4 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.1.3 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.1.2 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.1.1 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.1 (Oct 23, 2010)

New features:
Tree views of incoming and outgoing references in the heap walker reference view
Cumulated references as a tree table in the heap walker reference view
Action to select all exclusively referenced objects in the heap walker reference view
Type resolution of object arrays in memory views and heap walker when profiling with Java 5+ (JVMTI)
Reworked internal source viewer with file structure display, syntax coloring and search
Bundled IDE integration for IDEA 7
IDE integration for eclipse 3.4 (M2)
IDE integration for Netbeans 6
Added option to remove unreferenced objects when loading HPROF snapshots
Added a fixed summary row at the bottom of the All Objects and Recorded Objects views
Added context menu in thread history view to switch to single threads in the call tree or hot spots view
Average time is now a separate sortable column in the CPU hot spots view
View and thread filters are now persistent on a per-session basis
The main toolbar can now display icons with text or small icons
External source viewer: source files which are contained in JAR files are now extracted to temporary files before the external viewer is invoked
Added "Show Source" and "Show Bytecode" actions to stack trace lists in the thread monitor view, the monitor views and the allocation spot description in heap walker
Added context menu in object comparison to create allocation call tree and allocation hot spot comparisons for the selected class
Session settings: if an executable JAR file is selected for profiling, the Class-Path manifest entry can be added to the class path automatically
The "node details" dialog in all tree dialogs is now non-modal
Added expansion popups in hot spot views
View filters in hot spots views now support all hot spot types. Previously, only methods were supported.
Selection step labels in the heap walker selection description are now hyperlinks to the first occurrence of the corresponding object set
Heap walker reference view: Added view source and view bytecode actions to the cumulated reference views
The "Record CPU data" and "Record allocation data" actions can now be invoked manually as well when there are triggers that start and stop recording
Integration wizard for install4j/exe4j projects
Integration wizard for BEA Weblogic 10
Integration wizard for JBoss 5
Integration wizard for Apache Geronimo 2
Integration wizard for Caucho Resin 3.1
API: added com.jprofiler.api.agent.interceptor.PayloadInfo.discardTime(). This can be called if no timing information is desired for an interceptor type.
Bugs fixed:
Clicking on Auto-Update in the status bar in the class tracker did not retrieve new data
Source viewer did not support secondary top-level classes with file scope
Numbers next to the bar in the hot spot view could be cut off
Table views in the heap walker did not have action for "Use selected objects"
java.lang.Class was not present in the package aggregation level of the heap walker
eclipse integration: source navigation to inner classes was broken
Disconnecting and reconnecting to a remote JVM when dynamic views were frozen lead to inconsistent state in the GUI
Fixed integer overflow in monitor usage statistics
Classes with varargs-style main method could not be profiled
Wrong units were used in the difference column of the object views when the primary measure was set to "shallow size"

New in JProfiler 5.0.1 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 5.0 (Oct 23, 2010)

New in JProfiler 4.3.2 (Apr 3, 2007)