This page lists all previously presented news. To see the latest news please navigate to VisualVM frontpage.
May 6th, 2008: VisualVM 1.0 RC released. This is mainly a stabilization
release: many bugs have been fixed and performance and memory management have been significantly improved. The only new feature is
the Start Page which contains useful links to VisualVM documentation and JDK monitoring and troubleshooting guides.
Sources for this release are available in release10
branch.
April 14th, 2008: VisualVM Beta 2 released. Application Snapshots have been
improved (Overview tab can now be saved) and many minor improvements have been done. API and code have been cleaned up and several serious
bugs have been fixed. Sources for this release are available in visualvm_beta2
branch.
March 7th, 2008: VisualVM Beta released. There are many new features in this release:
applications defined by JMX connection, application snapshots, defined hosts and VM coredumps persistence, Load & Save As for thread dumps and heap dumps,
autodiscovery of jstatd started after defining remote host, improved support for JRockit VMs, new icons, main menu & toolbar cleanup, customizable Options,
GlassFish plugin on Plugin Center. Sources are available in visualvm_beta
branch.
February 19th, 2008: VisualVM Milestone 3 released. This is mostly a bugfix and stabilization
release with some minor improvements, most significant change is API cleanup. Sources for this release are available in
visualvm_m3
branch.
February 15th, 2008: VisualVM sources are available in CVS. Keep in mind that the VisualVM experimental API is still under active development. A simple version of the build instructions is available here.
February 7th, 2008: VisualVM Milestone 2 released. For this release an experimental API has been defined to allow smooth integration of third-party plugins into VisualVM UI and workflow. This API and the source code will be published soon. The other news in Milestone 2: separate threads view for each application, support for coredumps on Linux and Solaris (overview, take thread & heap dump), merged several bugfixes from NetBeans profiler. From the Plugin Center you can download MBean Browser with improved UI, wrapper for JConsole plugins and VisualGC tool.
January 15th, 2008: VisualVM Milestone 1 released. Major changes in this release: improved UI, better support for Sun and BEA virtual machines, simple localhost viewer, recognition of some applications (Ant, Tomcat, GlassFish/SJSAS, JBoss, NetBeans etc.).
November 19th, 2007: VisualVM Preview 2 released. This release introduces Plugin Center, a repository where you can get extensions to VisualVM (currently MBean browser and VisualGC are available). Other news: new About dialog, latest profiler bugfixes, latest NetBeans platform, usability improvements.
October 15th, 2007: VisualVM Preview 1 released. It provides basic monitoring and profiling capabilities for both production and development time use.