GammaRay 2.11.0

WARNING: Starting with version 2.11.0 GammaRay no longer supports Qt4

Highlights in this Release:

• Drop support for Qt 4 and Qt <= 5.4.
• Drop support for MSVC 2010 and MSVC 2012, as well as GCC < 4.8.
• Add support for more QtNetwork properties.
• Add new network operations monitoring tool.
• Fix inspection of QJson types.
• Add thread affinity check to the problem reporter.
• Add new event monitoring tool.
• Initial forward compatibility with Qt6 build system.
• Improved performance of the Qt Quick 2 inspector and the signal monitor.

GammaRay 2.10.0

WARNING: GammaRay 2.10.x is the final release that will support Qt4

Highlights in this Release:

• Increase CMake requirement to version 3.1 on all platforms.
• Add object navigation to the paint analyzer.
• Reduce network load by moving more property model features to the client side.
• Port object hierarchy visualizer plugin to Qt 5.
• Add new system information plugin, which supersedes the standard paths plugin.
• Use application palette rather than style palette in the style inspector.
• Improve gdb injector performance.
• Reduce performance impact of the widget paint analyzer in Windows debug builds.
• Improve Qt Quick item picking in case of zero-sized parent elements.
• Provide access to QAbstractItemModel role name mapping.
• Add QtPositioning plugin allowing to monitor and simulate geo localization.
• Add NMEA geo localization playback.
• Add support for generic functor property accessors.
• Add property access for mime data and clipboard types.
• Add infrastructure to override generic property access, such as Qt Quick anchor properties.
• Add custom property access for Qt Quick anchors properties to no longer trigger their on-demand creation.
• Add generic problem reporter infrastructure, and port some existing checks to it.

GammaRay 2.9.1

Highlights in this Release:

• Fix crash in in-process mode with networking disabled.
• Fix compilation with Qt 5.12.
• Update Android toolchain file.
• Allow to disable QtScript dependency.
• Fix crash on zero-sized paint operations.
• Fix plugin deployment on Android.
• Fix crash in Qt Quick inspector when encountering invalid bounding rects.
• Fix activating the Qt3D plugin when attaching to a Qt3D application at runtime.
• Fix out-of-bounds framebuffer read in Qt Quick remote view for some non-integer scaling factors.

GammaRay 2.9.0

Highlights in this Release:

• Improve Qt Quick Controls 2 tracer coloring.
• Fix issues with QSG diagnostic render modes in combination with QQuickWidget.
• Improve input validation in the connect dialog.
• Fix Qt Quick remote view on targets without GL_BGRA support.
• Add texture and texture atlas inspection for QSGMaterial using objects.
• Only read and send the actually visible screen content in the Qt Quick remote view.
• Support dynamic shaders in the QSGMaterial shader view.
• Show vertex and fragment uniforms for shader effects in the QSGMaterial tab.
• Fix crashes during changing/restoring QSG diagnostic render modes.
• Batch row/column count requests for better remote model performance.
• Drop support for CMake 2.8, at least 3.0 is required now.
• Improved performance in the Qt Quick inspector.
• Add support for QSGRenderNode.
• Consider compiler version as part of the probe ABI on Windows.
• Fix multithreading issues in the timer inspector.
• Add search line to timer inspector.
• Add screenshot support in Qt Quick inspector.
• Improve item picking support in Qt Quick inspector.
• Add texture waste indicator to texture inspection tab.
• Add color picker for remote views.
• Add object navigation and source navigation to the timer inspector.
• Add support for cross-architecture injection on Windows.
• Add support for editing enum/flag properties not registered with the Qt meta object system.
• Add network configuration view.
• Improved indication that a target process is being inspected by GammaRay.
• Add widget tab focus chain visualization.
• Fix re-attaching to a target application on Windows.
• Add QML binding inspector (requires Qt 5.10 or newer).
• Add support for QtWebEngine to the web inspector tool.
• Improved argument inspection in the QPainter analyzer.
• Support paint analysis with the Qt Quick software renderer (requires Qt 5.9.3 or newer).
• Improved Qt Quick anchor property display.
• Fix property editing of gadget value types.
• Fix interaction issues in string type property editor.
• Add action to slow down Qt Quick animation timers.
• Add support for visualizing clip areas in the Qt Quick software renderer.
• Clear Qt Quick target overlay on GammaRay client disconnect.
• Add automatic down-cast support to GammaRay metatype system.
• Add QObject creation stack trace view.
• Add source code navigation to the message browser stack trace view.
• Add stack trace view for painter operations in the paint analyzer view.
• Fix rpath support in probe ABI detection on macOS.
• Fix user manual access on macOS.
• Add profiling support to the paint analyzer.
• Use relative RPATHs on Linux, to make installations fully relocatable.
• Add mouse wheel zoom in the Qt 3D geometry inspector.
• Improve performance of the Qt Quick scene graph model.
• Improve editing of boolean properties.
• Add diagnostic shading modes to the Qt 3D geometry inspector.
• Support vertex picking in the Qt 3D geometry inspector.
• Support Qt 3D painted textures in the paint analyzer.
• Fix Qt 3D buffer decoding for tightly packed attributes.
• Fix server-side decoration state going out-of-sync in the Qt Quick inspector.
• Fix crash when validating dynamic meta objects.
• Fix support of namespaced and semi-qualified enums/flags.

GammaRay 2.8.2

Highlights in this Release:

• Fix high-dpi icon installation.
• Fix documentation build with spaces in the path.
• Fix build of the QtIvi inspector with Qt 5.10.
• Fix detection of libdl.
• Fix incomplete installation of multi-probe builds on second make install run.
• Fix build issues in some Windows and cross-compilation setups.
• Fix widget export action plugin loading on Windows.

GammaRay 2.8.1

Highlights in this Release:

• Fix compilation with interestingly packaged qmllint on Ubuntu.
• Fix error handling in LLDB injector when LLDB scripting support is not available.
• Fix tree view corruption when searching.
• Fix linking with backward-cpp in BFD mode using a static libbdf.
• Fix assert when launching a Windows target using a Qt debug build.
• Fix crash during attaching on Windows.
• Fix build with MSVC2010 and Qt4.8.
• Fix attach dialog not seeing 32bit processes on 64bit Windows systems.
• Add support for Qt 5.9.2.

GammaRay 2.8.0

Highlights in this Release:

• Fix possible deadlock in WinDLL injector.
• Add code navigation for C++-created objects (Linux-only, requires a debug build).
• Add legend for the QtQuick inspector overlay.
• Add QtQuickControls2 layout support in the QtQuick inspector.
• Add layouting grid overlay to the QtQuick inspector.
• Add support for non-QtIviProperty properties in QtIvi modules.
• Improved QtQuick2 remote view performance.
• Basic support for the QtQuick2 software renderer.
• Add QtQuick Control 2 tracing support.
• Improved lifetime tracking of dynamic meta objects.
• Fix alive instance counts not updating correcting in the meta object browser.
• Add instance count statistics for QML-defined types in the meta object browser.
• Fix crash when debugging dynamically created QtSCXML state machines.
• Improved object navigation to the QtIvi inspector.
• Improved icon visuals with light/dark color schemes.
• Add QTimeZone database browser to the locale inspector.
• Allow to specify a working directory in the graphical launcher.
• Fix rendering corruption caused by runtime switching of QSG render modes.
• Dynamically negotiate QDataStream serialization format, fixes corruption of large QDateTime values.
• Fix QSG scene graph expansion on item picking.
• Expand user manual to cover object inspection views.
• Improved network auto-discovery if target device has multiple interfaces.
• More robust ABI detection for Yocto-based cross-compilation to x86 and aarch64 platforms.
• Add support for QtIvi 5.10 property overrides.
• Fix launching/attaching to targets not having GammaRay in their DLL search path on Windows.
• Improved diagnostics for injector failures.
• Also find additional probes installed inside the Qt installation itself.
• Fix crash in QtQuick inspector.

GammaRay 2.7.0

Highlights in this Release:

• Improved enum and flag editor in the property view.
• Add style hint view to style inspector.
• Fix runtime QSG visualization mode switching for newer Qt versions.
• Initial support for statically compiling GammaRay into a target.
• Support for QtWayland 5.8.
• Add object navigation for the translation inspector.
• Automatically re-scan meta types to captures types registered later.
• Improved Wayland log and timeline view.
• Add object navigation for Wayland clients.
• Show alive object statistics in the meta object browser.
• Add Qt3D geometry inspector (requires Qt >= 5.7 and Qt3D)
• Allow to hide inactive tools.
• Fix handling of partially out-of-view QQuickItems in the QQ2 inspector.
• Improve error handling in the GDB injector.
• Fix QML support not being activated when attaching to a QtQuick application at runtime.
• Fix widget layout overlay for nested QLayouts.
• Fix crash on client disconnect.
• Syntax highlighting and code folding for textual content (requires KF5::SyntaxHighlighting)
• Add 3D widget layout visualization.
• Allow to hide non-visible elements in the full-depth picking dialog.
• Add QtIvi inspection tool (requires Qt5IviCore)
• Fix QSG geometry inspector not showing geometry correctly on first selection.
• Build both release and debug probes by default when using MSVC.
• Add more editor defaults for code navigation on Linux.
• Add QtSCXML support to the state machine debugger (requires Qt >= 5.8).
• Show QtQuick overlays also in the target application.
• Avoid leaking GammaRay translated strings into the translation inspector.
• Fix launching targets on macOS >= 10.9.

GammaRay 2.6.0

Highlights in this Release:

• Reworked tool view handling, enabling deeper IDE integration of individual tools.
• Merged model and selection model inspector.
• Fixed crash when quickly changing selection in model inspector.
• Add QMetaObject validation, identifying common problems with signal/slot declarations.
• Support object navigation to and from the model and text document inspectors as well as the signal plotter.
• Visualize model selections.
• Allow to inspect model content also for disabled cells.
• Show model cell flags in model inspector.
• Fix sorting in object method view.
• Fix handling of source model changes for proxy and selection models.
• Add in-app picking for selection models and actions.
• Extended the user manual with example problems diagnosed with GammaRay.
• Allow to rescan the meta type database.
• Add object navigation from the meta type view to the meta object browser.
• Show registered comparison and stream operators in the meta type browser.
• Add object navigation support to the action and timer inspectors.
• Visualize enabled state in the action inspector too.
• Support editing of nested properties of value types.
• Fix various enum/flag display issues in the property view.
• Fix AArch64 detection on ELF platforms.
• Support ABI detection on systems without ldd.
• Add Wayland compositor inspector.
• Add advanced element picking mode for widget and Qt Quick inspectors.
• Fix crash when encountering an empty translation context.
• Extend user manual content.
• Fix a number of memory leaks.
• Fix crash when selecting a dangling top-level layout in the widget inspector.
• Fix missing standard icon types in style inspector for some Qt versions.
• Fix table layout in style inspector.
• Fix invalid memory access in palette model.
• Fix selecting entries in the resource browser.

Prebuilt packages for some popular Linux distributions can be found at:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/KDAB/

Homebrew recipe for OSX users can be found at http://github.com/KDAB/homebrew-tap

For more information about GammaRay, please visit
http://www.kdab.com/gammaray

GammaRay 2.5.1

Highlights in this Release:

• Fix build of external plugins when using a non-standard GammaRay install prefix.
• Fix race when receiving probe settings.
• Fix tool selector showing empty entries with Qt4.
• Fix widget layout overlay been shown incorrectly on floating dock widgets.
• Fix tool navigation context menu showing internal ids rather than tool names.
• Fix crash when target closes the connection first.
• Extended user manual content.
• Fix codec browser showing random values when changing selection.

Prebuilt packages for some popular Linux distributions can be found at:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/KDAB/

Homebrew recipe for OSX users can be found at http://github.com/KDAB/homebrew-tap

For more information about GammaRay, please visit
http://www.kdab.com/gammaray