7663: Changed the Help › About › Extensions list name of the product to “Method R Trace”, without the “for SQL Developer” part.
7661: Removed theAbout Oracle SQL Developer › Method R Trace tab (the existence of which, confusingly, varied by context).
7660: Changed the documentation at https://method-r.com/software/trace/#installing to instruct people to use the new Preferences › Method R Trace › License dialog for license key entry.
7659: Removed the need for the METHODR user to have EXECUTE privilege upon DBMS_UTILITY.
7657: Modified the installation script to GRANT the CREATE SESSION privilege to the METHODR user.
7656: Created a new Preferences › Method R Trace › License page.
7560: Fixed a bug that causes Oracle session attributes to be missing in all but the first trace file generated during a given SQL Developer connection.
7138: Now you can undo the action performed by the Clear button.
7137: Clear button now clears only selected rows.
4362: Added count of selected files to the bottom of the Trace File Downloads pane.
7511: Deleted “Remove think time” action from the actions pane.
7506: New “Details by file, for plotting in Excel” action makes it easy to create Gantt charts in Excel for trace file data.
7503: Fixed a bug that could cause abnormal termination during mrprofk statement merging.
7492: Fixed a bug causing hierarchy indentation symbols in execution plans to misalign.
7477: Fixed a bug that could require a user to shift-click a duration when a simple click should have worked.
7476: Fixed a bug that could cause the License/About dialog to show the license key text when it shouldn’t.
7475: Updated The Method R Guide to Mastering Oracle Trace Data book references to match the release of the third edition.
7474: Each utility’s man page now includes .rc file details.
7473: Changed “Method R Tools” references in all the command line tools’ manual pages to “Method R Workbench”.
7470: Documented the required setting of MRWORKBENCH_INSTALL in all of the command line tools’ man pages (except for mrprof, which does not require it).
7469: Each utility’s man page now includes details about MRTOOLS_RCPATH (except for mrprof, which does not use it).
7466: Method R Trace now automatically maintains a self-diagnostic log file history.
7465: Fixed a bug that prevented downloading trace files with 20-digit cursor ID values, such as can happen on Oracle Database for the Solaris platform.
7464: Replaced the Installation Wizard’s outdated green favicon with the correct blue one.
7463: Replaced “The Method R Guide to Mastering Oracle Trace Data” second edition book cover with the new third edition book cover in the Preferences › Method R › Banner Page.
7462: Fixed a bug that could cause the banner page to appear empty.
7454: Renamed “Profiler Error” dialog to “Method R Workbench Error”.
7452: Fixed a bug where the application could raise an empty error dialog.
7451: Method R Workbench now migrates your configuration files automatically, without asking.
7443: Fixed a bug in which Method R Workbench would use a cdefs.xml configuration file from a directory other than the most recent product directory.
7440: Improved the formatting of the Method R Workbench log output.
7439: “Open profile” tool tip now says “Open profile (shift-click to re-profile)”.
7438: Fixed the accidental omission of mrprof.cmd from the Microsoft Windows port distribution.
7437: Fixed a bug causing Method R Workbench not to write XSL transform diagnostics to its log file.
7433: Fixed a bug on Microsoft Windows causing mrprof to create incorrect HTML output when automatically re-profiling.
7430: Improved the icons denoting expanded and collapsed items.
7428: Fixed a Preferences panel bug causing the collapsed and expanded icons to be swapped.
7426: Clicking any status icon now opens an explanatory dialog.
7425: Fixed a bug causing the automatic re-profile feature to not detect when a change has occurred to the cdefs file.
7421: Fixed a bug causing selections not to work properly in the command text and command output widgets.
7420: Workbench now warns if a .trc file’s mtime is in the future, which, if left unrepaired, will cause Workbench to re-profile the input trace file every time you click its duration.
7419: Changed the word “latency” to “duration” in advisory sentences where the word “latency” was technically inaccurate.
7417: The “Mastering Oracle Trace Data” button now opens the new third edition of The Method R Guide to Mastering Oracle Trace Data, by Cary V. Millsap.
7413: Fixed a bug causing an empty Profiler Error dialog to occur when it shouldn’t.
7412: Fixed a bug causing the license key to expire 23h 59m 59s prematurely.
7411: Fixed a bug that can cause the application not to launch using workbench.cmd file on Windows.
7410: Fixed a bug where whitespace in a configuration file name might cause mrprof to fail to start.
7398: Fixed a couple of HTML5 nonconformities detected with the W3C validator.
7397: Fixed a bug causing View › Zoom In not to work until after you use View › Zoom Out or View › Zoom Reset.
7396: Fixed a bug causing clicks on the “load sample files” hyperlink, labels in the action pane, and file pane column heads to fail intermittently.
7395: Renamed the Preferences › Reports tab to “Actions” and moved the Profiler tab to the left of the new Actions tab.
7393: Workbench now uses the Source Code Pro font for fixed pitch text.
7392: Fixed a Help › License dialog bug causing a double-click in the license key text widget not to select the whole license key.
7391: Fixed a bug causing files loaded with Edit › Undo Unload not to re-run mrprof when it is appropriate to do so.
7390: Fixed a bug causing the Help › License “Edit License Key” checkbox to sometimes remain selected across dialog close and open operations.
7386: Help › License dialog now shows license detail information for expired licenses.
7382: Application now saves the 8 most recent copies of workbench.log.
7378: Improved the files pane and action pane footer information format.
7377: Fixed a problem where you couldn’t move the checkbox column without also changing its state.
7374: Right-clicking on the files table header now pops up a column chooser menu.
7371: Fixed spacing error in “Duration by call begin and end time” report.
7370: Made Tags field editing an undoable operation.
7362: Changed the color of the small rectangle atop the file pane’s scroll bar to the header row color.
7360: Eliminated unnecessary database transactions that were slowing down file reload operations.
7359: Eliminated a 200ms sleep between mrprof executions, improving the speed of loading 1MB files into the application by about 10×.
7356: Renamed “Duration by call name, think time removed” to “Duration by call name, without think time”.
7325: Application no longer pops a dialog when a license key is absent. It will put a warning icon into the status column, as with any other mrprof execution problem.
7324: Simplified Preferences › Profiler › Workbench Parameters by eliminating the open_output and check_open_limit parameters. The application will now automatically open up to n HTML output files when open_limit=n. There is no longer a pop-up dialog asking whether you’d like to open more than n files.
7321: Application now shows a busy indicator when file unloading takes a long time to complete.
7320: Application now shows a busy indicator when checking the header checkbox takes a long time to complete.
7315: Fixed a bug causing the Preferences “Cancel” button to behave improperly.
7314: Sorted Preferences › Profiler › Kernel Parameters › ‐‐encoding option values into a more useful order.
7303: Fixed a bug causing mrprof to process control characters incorrectly.
7296: The application now disables output panel manipulations while in “Show example output” mode, and executing an action (e.g., by pressing the “Run” button) now automatically disengages “Show example output” mode.
7293: Fixed a bug in which quitting the application in the midst of a Tags field edit would lose your edits.
7291: Fixed several of the sample output items to match the actual report output.
7278: Fixed a bug causing the files filter not to interpret Tags field edits properly.
7272: Fixed a bug that would cause the application to misbehave when clicking a file or directory after reordering the columns.
7267: Improved item ordering on the Preferences › Profiler › Workbench Parameters panel.
7266: Improved the formatting of the LOCALE-CODE table in the manual page.
7254: Fixed a bug causing the application to unnecessarily re-profile files whenever the user manipulates the files pane filter.
7251: New Edit › Stop Profiling feature allows you to stop the automatic profiling of recently loaded files.
7248: Improved the accuracy of the “Total profiling error” label that can show up in the Profile report preamble.
7242: Enhanced the shared SQL ID hash key generation algorithm in mrprof and mrskew.
7241: New –force-match-plans option causes mrprof to group execution plans that have the same matching signature but different plan hash values.
7233: Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented a user’s click of an action in the action pane to copy its command text to the command text widget.
7229: New –force-match-statement-texts option causes mrprof to group SQL and PL/SQL statements that have the same matching signature but different SQL IDs.
7222: Changed heading in §1.2 and §4.*.4 from “other” to “non-CPU”.
7221: Fixed a bug in the Profile by Execution Plan section that could cause mrprof to attribute some executions to the wrong execution plan.
7202: mrprof now recognizes and reports on *** EXPERIENCE ID:(%s) lines.
7183: Refined OIOOIM05 error text, to make it less likely to cause distracting questions.
7162: Changed Help › Release Notes URL to https://method-r.com/cat/release-notes/.
7152: Fixed a bug that had caused Workbench to pop a spurious “No license key found” dialog when you drag a trace file onto the dock icon.
7061: On startup, the application now shows the status “Loading command output” while your output pane content is being loaded.
7060: Fixed a bug showing an incorrect number of days left before license expiration.
7059: New “Duration by experience ID and client ID” report.
7047: Fixed “Use of uninitialized value $experience_id in sprintf” bug.
7035: Changed the wording of the files pane status bar to include information about how many files are visible and hidden.
7032: Removed “(connection pool)” parenthetical from island ID-related action names, because these actions are useful for more than just connection pool trace files.
7031: Fixed a bug causing the Report Parameters dialog not to display sometimes when it should.
7027: New “Copy selected rows to output” button copies rows from the files pane into the output pane.
7024: Workbench can now load thousands of files in one operation without an “Argument list too long” error. It loads files more quickly now, and it no longer prints distracting mrls –csv information to the output pane when you load files.
7011: Workbench application now uses a stable sorter that preserves pre-existing column order in case of a tie.
7010: Now you can drag directory from your Finder or Explorer into the Workbench files pane, and Workbench will load its contents recursively.
6766: Fixed a bug that sometimes caused mrprof not to emit placeholder values.
6492: Made application error text easier to find by simplifying the log file format.
6375: New Help › Open Diagnostics menu option opens the Method R Workbench master log file, which you can, for example, email to Method R if you’re having a problem.
7173: Instead of mapping all “ocean” lines to $island_id=0, mrskew now sets $island_id for such lines to −1 times the ocean’s line number.
7172: Fixed a bug causing mrskew to incorrectly calculate $island_id when the ocean-defining “SQL*Net message from client” call is followed by a BINDS line.
7153: Fixed a bug causing mrskew to show the incorrect demonstration output for the “Duration by island ID” report.