Beta Release
This is a Beta release to preview new functionality coming in Gibraltar 2.2.0. Full
documentation is not available for new features and some aspects of the API may
change before final release. This release will be supported for a limited period
of time.
Prerequisites
Before installing Gibraltar, you need to have .NET 2.0 SP1 or later installed.
If .NET 2.0 is installed without SP1 or SP2 installation will proceed but the application
will fail to start.
Installation Notes
Uninstall any previous version of Gibraltar before installing a new version.
We are making changes to the installation to allow in-place upgrades in a future release.
Visual Studio 2008 Help is Now Separate
Because of the complete help system change coming with Visual Studio 2010 we are separating out
the Visual Studio integrated help content so that you can download just the set of help you need for your scenario.
New Features in This Release
Gibraltar Add Ins
You can develop your own extensions to Gibraltar Analyst using our Add In API. These extensions can perform extended analysis of session details (including log messages, exceptions, and other data) automatically and on demand. You can even extend the Analyst user interface with your own controls and forms.
Analyst Run at Log On / Keep Running
The Gibraltar Analyst can now be left running more easily and can be set to automatically start when you log on. In this mode it uses fewer resources than when the full application is loaded yet still collects and processes information from a Gibraltar Hub.
Intellisense for Configuration File Editing
The installation will now add an Xsd for Gibraltar configuration for Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 to make it easier to edit configuration files.
Display the Gibraltar Live Viewer
You can now ask the Agent to display the Gibraltar Live Viewer by calling the DisplayLiveViewer Method method. This acts just like the end-user pressing the hot key, including running on a separate UI thread and will do nothing if it isn't safe to display the Live Viewer.
Add Multiple Metrics to a chart at once
You can now add many metrics to a Metric Chart at the same time by dragging the folder that contains all of the metrics you want to add over to the Chart at once.
Defects Fixed In This Release
This is the list of issues fixed since the last release version (2.1.1.629)
Agent
- Fixed: Packager fails when running in a process set to a neutral culture (e.g. EN instead of EN-US)
- Fixed: Agent logs excessive information about its own behavior when exclusively called from the .NET Trace API.
- Fixed: Agent doesn't record time zone name correctly when recording time change.
Analyst
- Fixed: Chart tooltips are hard to read under Windows XP Standard Theme.
- Fixed: Expanding a repository view loads its default view and displays it without changing the apparent selected view.
- Fixed: Repository View doesn't update correctly when all sessions of the current filtered value are removed.
- Fixed: Creating metric chart of event metric doesn't select the default event metric value as the initial value.
- Fixed: Repository View doesn't gracefully handle missing session data (when sessions are removed in the background during display)