Changelog for innotop:
2010-11-06: version 1.8.0
Changes:
* Don't re-fetch SHOW VARIABLES every iteration; it's too slow on many hosts.
* Add a filter to remove EVENT threads in SHOW PROCESSLIST (issue 32).
* Add a timestamp to output in -n mode, when -t is specified (issue 37).
* Add a new U mode, for Percona/MariaDB USER_STATISTICS (issue 39).
* Add support for millisecond query time in Percona Server (issue 39).
* Display a summary of queries executed in Query List mode (issue 26).
Bugs fixed:
* Made config-file reading more robust (issue 41).
* Hostname parsing wasn't standards compliant (issue 30).
* MKDEBUG didn't work on some Perl versions (issue 22).
* Don't try to get InnoDB status if have_innodb != YES (issue 33).
* Status text from the InnoDB plugin wasn't parsed correctly (issue 36).
* Transaction ID from InnoDB plugin wasn't subtracted correctly (issue 38).
* Switching modes and pressing ? for help caused a crash (issue 40).
2009-09-06: version 1.7.2
Changes:
* add support for --socket
Bugs fixed:
* remove cxn from $meta->{group_by} if there's only one connection displayed
* fix for issue 19 - cxn column won't become visible when viewing two
connections after having viewed one connection
* supress errors resulting from the addition of a 'BACKGROUND THREAD'
section in the output of 'show innodb status'
* possible fix for issue 22 - Useless use of a constant in void context
* small change to set_to_tbl() around hiding the cxn column if there
aren't two or more connections
2009-03-09: version 1.7.1
Changes:
* Don't display the CXN column if only one connection is active in
the current view
* the 'state' column is now visible by default in Query List mode
Bugs fixed:
* fixed bug where trying to aggregate the time column would result
in a crash if the time column had an undef value in it, which is
the case when a thread is in the 'Connect' state
* updated innotop.spec file to reflect current version
2009-02-23: version 1.7.0
Changes:
* supports a central config (/etc/innotop/innotop.conf)
* changed the default home directory config to ~/.innotop/innotop.conf
(away from .ini)
* embedded InnoDBParser.pm into innotop so it can be run with no
installation
* no longer writes a new config file by default
* added --skipcentral (skip reading central config) and --write (write
a config if none were loaded at start-up)
* if no config file is loaded, connect to a MySQL database on
localhost using mysql_read_default_group=client
* embedded maatkit's DSNParser.pm and added support for --user,
--password, --host, --port
* changed default mode from T (InnoDB Transactions) to Q (Query List)
* in addition to connected threads, now displays running and cached
threads in statusbar
* don't load connections from a config file if any DSN information or
a username or password is specified on the command-line
Bugs fixed:
* fixed bug preventing utilization of command-line options that
override default config settings if no config file was loaded
* fixed a bug where migrating from an old version of the config will
delete ~/innotop.ini, if it exists. Now uses File::Temp::tempfile().
2007-11-09: version 1.6.0
* S mode crashed on non-numeric values.
* New user-defined columns crashed upon restart.
* Added --color option to control terminal coloring.
2007-09-18: version 1.5.2
* Added the ability to monitor InnoDB status from a file.
* Changed W mode to L mode; it monitors all locks, not just lock waits.
2007-09-16: version 1.5.1
* Added C (Command Summary) mode.
* Fixed a bug in the 'avg' aggregate function.
2007-09-10: version 1.5.0
Changes:
* Added plugin functionality.
* Added group-by functionality.
* Moved the configuration file to a directory.
* Enhanced filtering and sorting on pivoted tables.
* Many small bug fixes.
2007-07-16: version 1.4.3
Changes:
* Added standard --version command-line option
* Changed colors to cyan instead of blue; more visible on dark terminals.
* Added information to the filter-choosing dialog.
* Added column auto-completion when entering a filter expression.
* Changed Term::ReadKey from optional to mandatory.
* Clarified username in password prompting.
* Ten thousand words of documentation!
Bugs fixed:
* innotop crashed in W mode when InnoDB status data was truncated.
* innotop didn't display errors in tables if debug was enabled.
* The colored() subroutine wasn't being created in non-interactive mode.
* Don't prompt to save password except the first time.
2007-05-03: version 1.4.2
This version contains all changes to the trunk until revision 239; some
changes in revisions 240:250 are included.
MAJOR CHANGES:
* Quick-filters to easily filter any column in any display
* Compatibility with MySQL 3.23 through 6.0
* Improved error handling when a server is down, permissions denied, etc
* Use additional SHOW INNODB STATUS information in 5.1.x
* Make all modes use tables consistently, so they can all be edited,
filtered, colored and sorted consistently
* Combine V, G and S modes into S mode, with v, g, and s hot-keys
* Let DBD driver read MySQL option files; permit connections without
user/pass/etc
* Compile SQL-like expressions into Perl subroutines; eliminate need to
know Perl
* Do not save all config data to config file, only save user's customizations
* Rewritten and improved command-line option handling
* Added --count, --delay, and other command-line options to support
run-and-exit operation
* Improve built-in variable sets
* Improve help screen with three-part balanced-column layout
* Simplify table-editor and improve hotkey support
* Require Perl to have high-resolution time support (Time::HiRes)
* Help the user choose a query to analyze or kill
* Enable EXPLAIN, show-full-query in T mode just like Q mode
* Let data-extraction access current, previous and incremental data sets
all at once
MINOR CHANGES:
* Column stabilizing for Q mode
* New color rules for T, Q, W modes
* Apply slave I/O filter to Q mode
* Improve detection of server version and other meta-data
* Make connection timeout a config variable
* Improve cross-version-compatible SQL syntax
* Get some information from the DBD driver instead of asking MySQL for it
* Improved error messages
* Improve server group creation/editing
* Improve connection/thread killing
* Fix broken key bindings and restore previously mapped hot-keys for
choosing columns
* Some documentation updates (but not nearly enough)
* Allow the user to specify graphing char in S mode (formerly G mode)
* Allow easy switching between variable sets in S mode
* Bind 'n' key globally to choose the 'next' server connection
* Bind '%' key globally to filter displayed tables
* Allow aligning columns on the decimal place for easy readability
* Add hide_hdr config variable to hide column headers in tables
* Add a feature to smartly run PURGE MASTER LOGS in Replication mode
* Enable debug mode as a globally configurable variable
* Improve error messages when an expression or filter doesn't compile or has
a run-time error; die on error when debug is enabled
* Allow user-configurable delays after executing SQL (to let the server
settle down before taking another measurement)
* Add an expression to show how long until a transaction is finished
* Add skip_innodb as a global config variable
* Add '%' after percentages to help disambiguate (user-configurable)
* Add column to M mode to help see how fast slave is catching up to master
BUG FIXES:
* T and W modes had wrong value for wait_status column
* Error tracking on connections didn't reset when the connection recovered
* wait_timeout on connections couldn't be set before MySQL 4.0.3
* There was a crash on 3.23 when wiping deadlocks
* Lettercase changes in some result sets (SHOW MASTER/SLAVE STATUS) between
MySQL versions crashed innotop
* Inactive connections crashed innotop upon access to DBD driver
* set_precision did not respect user defaults for number of digits
* --inc command-line option could not be negated
* InnoDB status parsing was not always parsing all needed information
* S mode (formerly G mode) could crash trying to divide non-numeric data
* M table didn't show Slave_open_temp_tables variable; incorrect lettercase
* DBD drivers with broken AutoCommit would crash innotop
* Some key bindings had incorrect labels
* Some config-file loading routines could load data for things that didn't
exist
* Headers printed too often in S mode
* High-resolution time was not used even when the user had it
* Non-interactive mode printed blank lines sometimes
* Q-mode header and statusbar showed different QPS numbers
* Formulas for key-cache and query-cache hit ratios were wrong
* Mac OS "Darwin" machines were mis-identified as Microsoft Windows
* Some multiplications crashed when given undefined input
* The commify transformation did not check its input and could crash
* Specifying an invalid mode on the command line or config file could crash
innotop
2007-03-29: version 1.4.1
* More tweaks to display of connection errors.
* Fixed a problem with skip-innodb in MySQL 5.1.
* Fix a bug with dead connections in single-connection mode.
* Fix a regex to allow parsing more data from truncated deadlocks.
* Don't load active cxns from the config file if the cxn isn't defined.
2007-03-03: version 1.4.0
* Further tweak error handling and display of connection errors
* More centralization of querying
* Fix forking so it doesn't kill all database connections
* Allow user to run innotop without permissions for GLOBAL variables and status
2007-02-11: version 1.3.6
* Handle some connection failures so innotop doesn't crash because of one server.
* Enable incremental display in more modes.
* Tweaks to colorizing, color editor, and default color rules.
* Tweaks to default sorting rules.
* Use prepared statements for efficiency.
* Bug fixes and code cleanups.
* Data storage is keyed on clock ticks now.
2007-02-03: version 1.3.5
* Bug fixes.
* More tools for editing configuration from within innotop.
* Filters and transformations are constrained to valid values.
* Support for colorizing rows.
* Sorting by multiple columns.
* Compress headers when display is very wide.
* Stabilize and limit column widths.
* Check config file formats when upgrading so upgrades go smoothly.
* Make D mode handle many connections at once.
* Extract simple expressions from data sets in column src property.
This makes innotop more awk-ish.
2007-01-16: version 1.3
* Readline support.
* Can be used unattended, or in a pipe-and-filter mode
where it outputs tab-separated data to standard output.
* You can specify a config file on the command line.
Config files can be marked read-only.
* Monitor multiple servers simultaneously.
* Server groups to help manage many servers conveniently.
* Monitor master/slave status, and control slaves.
* Columns can have user-defined expressions as their data sources.
* Better configuration tools.
* InnoDB status information is merged into SHOW VARIABLES and
SHOW STATUS information, so you can access it all together.
* High-precision time support in more places.
* Lots of tweaks to make things display more readably and compactly.
* Column transformations and filters.
2007-01-16: version 1.0.1
* NOTE: innotop is now hosted at Sourceforge, in Subversion not CVS.
The new project homepage is http://sourceforge.net/projects/innotop/
* Tweak default T/Q mode sort columns to match what people expect.
* Fix broken InnoDBParser.pm documentation (and hence man page).
2007-01-06: version 1.0
* NOTE: innotop is now hosted at Sourceforge, in Subversion not CVS.
The new project homepage is http://sourceforge.net/projects/innotop/
* Prevent control characters from freaking terminal out.
* Set timeout to keep busy servers from closing connection.
* There is only one InnoDB insert buffer.
* Make licenses clear and consistent.
2006-11-14: innotop 0.1.160, InnoDBParser version 1.69
* Support for ANSI color on Microsoft Windows (more readable, compact
display; thanks Gisbert W. Selke).
* Better handling of $ENV{HOME} on Windows.
* Added a LICENSE file to the package as per Gentoo bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147600
2006-11-11: innotop 0.1.157, InnoDBParser version 1.69
* Add Microsoft Windows support.
2006-10-19: innotop 0.1.154, InnoDBParser version 1.69
* Add O (Open Tables) mode
* Add some more checks to handle incomplete InnoDB status information
2006-09-30: innotop 0.1.152, InnoDBParser version 1.69
* Figured out what was wrong with package $VERSION variable: it wasn't
after the package declaration!
2006-09-28: innotop 0.1.152, InnoDBParser version 1.67
* Make more efforts towards crash-resistance and tolerance of completely
messed-up inputs. If innotop itself is broken, it is now much harder to
tell, because it just keeps on running without complaining.
* Fix a small bug parsing out some information and displaying it.
2006-09-05: innotop 0.1.149, InnoDBParser version 1.64
* Try to find and eliminate any parsing code that assumes pattern matches
will succeed.
2006-09-05: innotop 0.1.149, InnoDBParser version 1.62
* Make innotop crash-resistant, so I can declare it STABLE finally.
* Instead of using SQL conditional comments, detect MySQL version.
2006-08-22: innotop 0.1.147, InnoDBParser version 1.60
* Fix some innotop bugs with undefined values, bad formatting etc.
2006-08-19: innotop 0.1.146, InnoDBParser version 1.60
* Make innotop handle some unexpected NULL values in Q mode.
* Add OS wait information to W mode, so it is now "everything that waits."
* Center section captions better.
* Make R mode more readable and compact.
* Make InnoDBParser parse lock waits even when they've been waiting 0 secs.
2006-08-12: innotop 0.1.139, InnoDBParser version 1.59
* Add more documentation
* Tweak V mode to show more info in less space.
* Fix a bug in G mode.
2006-08-10: innotop 0.1.132, InnoDBParser version 1.58
* Handle yet more types of FK error... it will never end!
* Handle some special cases when DEADLOCK info truncated
* Add a bit more FK info to F mode in innotop
* More tests added to the test suite
2006-08-07: innotop 0.1.131, InnoDBParser version 1.55
* Fix another issue with configuration
* Handle another type of FK error
2006-08-03: innotop 0.1.130, InnoDBParser version 1.54
* Fix an issue loading config file
* Add heap_no to 'D' (InnoDB Deadlock) mode to ease deadlock debugging.
2006-08-02: innotop 0.1.128, InnoDBParser version 1.54
* Parse lock wait information from the TRANSACTION section.
* Even more OS-specific parsing... pain in the butt...
* Add 'W' (InnoDB Lock Wait) mode.
* Fix some minor display issues with statusbar.
2006-08-02: innotop 0.1.125, InnoDBParser version 1.50
* Don't try to get references to Perl built-in functions like time()
* Handle more OS-specific variations of InnoDB status text
* Add some more information to various places in innotop
2006-08-01: innotop 0.1.123, InnoDBParser version 1.47
* Enhance S and G modes: clear screen and re-print headers
* Don't crash when deadlock data is truncated
* Make Analyze mode say how to get back to whatever you came from
* Display 'nothing to display' when there is nothing
* Add ability to read InnoDB status text from a file (mostly helps test)
* Add table of Wait Array Information in Row Op/Semaphore mode
* Add table of lock information in InnoDB deadlock mode
* Ensure new features in upgrades don't get masked by existing config files
* Tweak default column choices for T mode
* Enhance foreign key parsing
* Enhance physical record and data tuple parsing
* Enhance lock parsing (handle old-style and new-style formats)
2006-07-24: innotop 0.1.112, InnoDBParser version 1.36
* InnoDBParser enhancements for FK error messages.
* A fix to innotop to prevent it from crashing while trying to display a FK
error message.
* Some minor cosmetic changes to number formatting in innotop.
2006-07-22: innotop 0.1.106, InnoDBParser version 1.35
* InnoDBParser is much more complete and accurate.
* Tons of bug fixes.
* Add partitions to EXPLAIN mode.
* Enhance Q mode header, add T mode header.
* Share some configuration variables across modes.
* Add formatted time columns to Q, T modes.
* Add command-line argument parsing.
* Turn off echo when asking for password.
* Add option to specify port when connecting.
* Let display-optimized-query display multiple notes.
* Lots of small improvements, such as showing more info in statusbar.
2006-07-02: innotop 0.1.74, InnoDBParser version 1.24
* Initial release for public consumption.
