1. VSD 5.6.1 Release Notes
Overview
Visual Statistics Display (VSD) version 5.6.1 is a new release of the VSD product, including improvements for handling multiple appended files.
These release notes describe changes between the previous version of VSD, version 5.6, and version 5.6.1.
This version of VSD supports statmonitor files generated from:
Supported Platforms
VSD version 5.6.1 is verified and supported on the following platforms:
- (64-bit) Windows 10 and Windows 11
- AIX 7.1 and 7.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Server/CentOS Linux/Rocky Linux/AlmaLinux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x; Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 on x86; and Ubuntu 20.04 on arm64
- OSX 13.1 (Ventura) with Darwin 22.2.0 kernel, and OSX 12.6 (Monterey) with Darwin 21.6.0 kernel on x86; and OSX 11.6 (Big Sur) with Darwin 20.6.0 kernel on Apple silicon.
Windows 7, Red Hat 6.x, and Ubuntu 18.04 are expected to work, but as these are end-of-life, are not officially supported.
Changes in this Release
File Info dialog now lists appended files
Prevoiusly, when using vsd -a or the File > Append Data File(s)... option to append multiple files, there was no indication of the appended filenames, other than the first file loaded. Now, the File > Info dialog includes a new section listing each of the files that was appended.
The general name of the file, such as is displayed the File: drop down, remains that of the first file loaded.
Disallowed to append statmonitor data generated by different GemStone versions
It is now disallowed to append statmonitor data files that were generated by different versions of GemStone. While earlier versions of VSD did not fail, it was not handled correctly and could produce unexpected results or later errors.