Tracealyzer Updates

Download the latest version of Tracealyzer 4 here.

Any applicable updates are listed below.

Tracealyzer 4.10.3 – Windows (64-bit) | Linux (64-bit) Standalone | Linux (64-bit) Requires Mono
Released 2025-01-24

• Application: Added configuration files for Cesium RTOS Cs-OS2 and Cs-OS3.
• Application: Updated Zephyr configuration for changes in k_pipe API.
• Application: More informative error message when PSF Extensions fail to load (e.g. XML file not found).
• Application: Fixed "Use separate receive thread" not remembered in PSF Streaming Settings.
• Application: Fixed issue with Interval Tracing for snapshots where start event was missing.
• Recorder: [Zephyr] Improved syscall tracing now used by default ("syscall extension")
• Recorder: [Zephyr] Fix for changes in k_pipe API.
• Recorder: Minor bug fixes.
• Recorder: Fixed warnings.

Tracealyzer 4.10.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Linux (64-bit) Standalone | Linux (64-bit) Requires Mono
Released 2024-12-18

• Application: Improved J-Link handling when closing connection.
• Application: License wizard improvements.
• Application: Improved error messages on invalid trace files.
• Application: Bug fix, some user events rendered with different spacing.
• Application: Bug fix, Event Log didn't detect certain Filter changes.
• Application: Bug fix, "remember password" didn't work on Ubuntu 24.
• Application: Bug fix, issue with offline license request files.
• Application: Bug fix, selection marker not always displayed in Actor Instance Graph.
• Recorder: Zephyr ISR hook no longed traced by default.
• Recorder: Updates for FreeRTOS 11.
• Recorder: Minor improvements for Raspberry Pi Pico.

Tracealyzer 4.10.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Linux (64-bit) Standalone | Linux (64-bit) Requires Mono
Released 2024-10-15

• Application: Bug fix, since 4.10.0 the stand-alone package failed to start on certain Linux systems due to issues with libgdiplus. Now bundling the right version.
• Application: Bug fix, corrected the list of license options provided by the new license system.
• Application: Bug fix, the included demo trace for LTTng Linux tracing did not show up on the welcome screen.

Tracealyzer 4.10.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Linux (64-bit) Standalone | Linux (64-bit) Requires Mono
Released 2024-10-04

• Application: New licensing system. Old licenses still supported, now called "legacy license".
• Application: Bug fix, exception when setting “Unsyncronized Filter” during live streaming.
• Application: Bug fix, wrong name displayed for initial task in certain cases when tracing ISRs.
• Application: Bug fix, LTTng parsing could fail with error message “Unexpected token Minus (-)”.
• Application: Bug fix, unresponsive during live streaming when CPU frequency was not set.
• Recorder: Added user-contributed port for Analog Devices ADSP-SC58X SHARC.
• Recorder: Added note that TRC_CFG_INCLUDE_READY_EVENTS will impact statistics if disabled.
• Recorder: Optimized default stack size of TzCtrl task (was excessively large).
• Recorder: Updated FreeRTOS kernelport for renamed symbol (configNUM_CORES).
• Recorder: Zephyr, Cleaned up kconfig options.
• Recorder: Deprecated TRC_HARDWARE_PORT_HWIndependent since not recommended and will be removed later. This uses the kernel tick as time source to avoid hardware dependencies, but this gives inaccurate traces with incorrect metrics.
• Recorder: Bug fix, Zephyr kernelport crashed on ARMv8-M devices.
• Recorder: Bug fix, Compilation error on Zephyr about prvTraceObjectSendNameEvent.
• Recorder: Bug fix, Compilation error on Renesas RX.
• Recorder: Bug fix: Zephyr python script for syscall tracing didn’t start on Windows due to hardcoded name for python executable (“python3” vs “python”).

Tracealyzer 4.9.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Linux (64-bit) Standalone | Linux (64-bit) Requires Mono
Released 2024-07-12

• Application: Additional UX improvements for Linux users, including bundling a standardized font.
• Application: Bug fixes for memory usage warnings when loading large traces.
• Application: Updated J-Link drivers.
• Application: Uses "Dynamic Legend" by default, instead of asking on first use.
• Recorder: Enabled "File" stream port for Zephyr.
• Recorder: Updated J-Link RTT stream port with latest RTT library.
• Recorder: Heap tracing (malloc/free) was not working for Zephyr. Has been fixed.
• Recorder: Changed default start mode for Zephyr to "Start", to be compatible with the RingBuffer stream port.
• Recorder: Various minor bugs and warnings adressed.

Tracealyzer 4.9.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Linux (64-bit) Standalone | Linux (64-bit) Requires Mono
Released 2024-05-29

• Application: Fixed an issue where users were unable to acquire licenses through the Percepio Licensing Service (PLS).

Tracealyzer 4.9.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Linux (64-bit) Standalone | Linux (64-bit) Requires Mono
Released 2024-05-23

• Application: Removed CEF on Linux and replaced views with alternative implementations in order to reduce dependencies and simplify installation.
• Application: New standalone Linux package introduced.
• Application: Major stability and performance improvements to Linux version.
• Recorder: Support for new SAFERTOS features
• Recorder: Updated ThreadX to use the new recorder API
• Recorder: Various minor bug fixes

Tracealyzer 4.8.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2023-11-30

• Application: Added option for using separate receiver thread for UDP
• Application: Updated SSH.NET to 2023.0.0.
• Application: Fixed CPU load appearing as zero when there was low activity.
• Application: Improved retrieving task/ISR priority from RingBuffer traces.
• Application: Fixed custom state machine models not being remembered on trace reload.
• Application: Various stability improvements.
• Recorder: Built-in UDP streamport improved.
• Recorder: Fixed potential memory alignment issue for char*.
• Recorder: Fixed ISR registration events when running in 64-bit.
• Recorder: Various minor warnings fixed.

Tracealyzer 4.8.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2023-09-26

• Application: Fixed issue where credentials were not remembered when using cloud licensing.
• Application: Update bundled J-Link drivers for Windows.
• Application: Added hook to launch a shell script right before starting a streaming session.
• Application: Various minor bug fixes.
• Recorder: Optimized TCPIP/UDP streamports.
• Recorder: Fixed incompatibility with certain compilers' implementation of va_list.
• Recorder: Zephyr: Added missing extern "c" for C++.
• Recorder: Zephyr: Better syscall handling.
• Recorder: ESP-IDF: Fixed crash when using flash.
• Recorder: ESP-IDF: Switched timer for timestamps.
• Recorder: ThreadX: Fixed "Missed events" issue.
• Recorder: Various minor warnings fixed.

Tracealyzer 4.8.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2023-06-07

• Application: 64-bit TraceRecorder support.
• Application: Improved Dependency error handling.
• Application: Zephyr: Added support for explicit State Machine and Interval events.
• Application: Now possible to search for user events in Trace Preview for large traces.
• Application: ELF dependencies and XML configuration search paths can now be configured in GUI.
• Application: Fixed issue where custom state machines and intervals were not remembered on trace reload.
• Application: Various minor bug fixes.
• Recorder: 64-bit support for FreeRTOS, SAFERTOS, Zephyr, ESP-IDF and Bare Metal.
• Recorder: Major Zephyr trace optimizations and improvements.
• Recorder: Support for ESP-IDF v4.2-v5.X.
• Recorder: Critical section definitions can now be overridden in user configuration.
• Recorder: Various minor bug fixes.

Tracealyzer 4.7.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2023-02-20

• Application: Added SAFERTOS stack monitoring.
• Application: Added support for Runnables.
• Application: Added BareMetal support.
• Application: Added support for Dependency which allows a trace file to specify an external dependency (currently only .elf).
• Application: Added Compact User Events which uses Dependency to store very efficient User Events by reading the strings from an .elf file.
• Application: Added UDP streaming support.
• Application: Added support for trace defined State Machines.
• Application: Added support for trace defined Intervals.
• Application: Support for custom Idle task names.
• Application: Improved context menu handling.
• Application: Updated VxWorks definitions.
• Application: Various stability and performance improvements.
• Recorder: Added SAFERTOS stack monitoring.
• Recorder: Added BareMetal support.
• Recorder: Added support for Runnables.
• Recorder: Added support for Dependency (only .elf files for now).
• Recorder: Added support for Compact User Events which reduce trace event sizes drastically.
• Recorder: Added hardwareport TRC_HARDWARE_PORT_ARMv8AR_A32.
• Recorder: Added UDP streamport.
• Recorder: Stack Monitor can now be less intrusive if kernel allows it.
• Recorder: Idle task names can now be set.
• Recorder: Fixed issue where certain FreeRTOS heap_x.c would cause errors.
• Recorder: ITM streamport optimized.
• Recorder: Now checks max length of TRC_CFG_ENTRY_SYMBOL_MAX_LENGTH.
• Recorder: Fixed issue with FreeRTOS Event Groups.
• Recorder: Fixed issue with (very) early calls to xTraceInitialize().
• Recorder: Fixed multi core issue where StartEvent was missing some parameters.
• Recorder: Various stability and performance improvements.

Tracealyzer 4.6.6 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2022-08-19

• Recorder: Fixed issue with EventBuffer wrapping.

Tracealyzer 4.6.5 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2022-06-27

• Application: Support for more trace formats from DevAlert.
• Application: Fixed issue with trace loading progress bar not always showing up.
• Application: J-Link devices with Unspecified manufacturer are now shown in the device selection dialog.
• Recorder: Improved Critical Section usage.

Tracealyzer 4.6.4 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2022-06-07

• Application: Fixes and improvements for DevAlert Sandbox.
• Application: Minor performance improvements.
• Application: Minor bug fixes.
• Recorder: Fixed compiler warnings.
• Recorder: Minor Zephyr and FreeRTOS fixes.

Tracealyzer 4.6.3 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2022-05-03

• Application: Live Stream Tool CPU graph sometimes showed incorrect values when in non-live mode.
• Application: Communication Flow didn't show certain mutex connections.
• Application: Object History view not shown if already minimized.
• Application: Minor performance improvements.
• Application: Minor bug fixes.
• Recorder: Fixed some compiler warning in IAR Embedded Workbench.
• Recorder: Reintroduced some missing declarations for ISR functions in Snapshot mode.
• Recorder: Various Zephyr fixes.
• Recorder: Various ThreadX fixes.
• Recorder: Minor performance improvements.
• Recorder: Minor bug fixes.

Tracealyzer 4.6.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2022-03-02

• Application: Fixed zoom focus when Dynamic Legends are enabled.
• Application: STLink log fix.
• Application: Fixed crash when double clicking interval set node.
• Application: Minor performance improvements.
• Application: Minor bug fixes.
• Recorder: Delayed trace timestamp configuration to ensure it is set up properly before being used.
• Recorder: Fixed Legacy Snapshot issue when using Cortex A9.
• Recorder: Fixed trace heap statistics for old FreeRTOS versions.
• Recorder: Fixed dynamic allocation.
• Recorder: Reworked Intervals.

Tracealyzer 4.6.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2022-02-14

• Application: Correctly save License Service settings.

Tracealyzer 4.6.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2022-02-08

• Application: Dynamic task legends.
• Application: PSF RingBuffer support.
• Application: Performance improvements.
• Application: Minor bug fixes.
• Recorder: Completely refactored code. Currently only available for FreeRTOS, ThreadX and Zephyr.
• Recorder: Added PSF RingBuffer StreamPort that can be used for Streaming mode snapshots.
• Recorder: Added ThreadX Streaming.

Tracealyzer 4.5.3 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2021-11-08

• Application: Minor improvements for Linux hosts.
• Application: Better handling of J-Link drivers, especially on Linux hosts.
• Application: Improved handling of multi-core traces.
• Application: Fixed issue that prevented loading of certain VxWorks logs.
• Recorder: Fixed implementation for traceTIMER_EXPIRED macro in FreeRTOS.

Tracealyzer 4.5.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2021-10-26

• Application: Major stability and layout improvements for Linux hosts.
• Application: Improved memory estimation for some trace formats, including LTTng.

Tracealyzer 4.5.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2021-09-13

• Application: Major stability and rendering improvements for Linux hosts.
• J-Link support: Added option to disable or specify J-Link log file and added an option to specify a script to run before connection. This may be needed for specific targets.
• PSF Streaming: Added option to disable multi-threading in the parser. Disabling this may fix an intermittent memory buildup issue on Linux hosts.
• VxWorks support: Added option to toggle the dummy actor behavior on IntExitK events.
• Recorder: Better handling of kernel objects with names that are null
• Recorder: Kernel port for uC/OS-III no longer depends on external string library
• Recorder: Kernel port for uC/OS-III now properly handles TRC_CFG_SCHEDULING_ONLY

Tracealyzer 4.5.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2021-06-15

• Application: Improved DevAlert integration
• Application: Zephyr Support (beta)
• Application: ESP-IDF Support
• Application: Trace control using GDB (beta)
• Application: Improved STLINK-v3 support
• Recorder: Zephyr Support (beta)
• Recorder: ESP-IDF Support

Tracealyzer 4.4.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2021-02-08

• Application: ThreadX SMP Support
• Application: ST-Link v3 Streaming
• Application: Fixed problem where the view filter would not update on adding state machines or interval sets
• Application: Added fragment list to instance details view
• Application: Fixed stability issues in the Syscalls explorer

Tracealyzer 4.4.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2020-11-11

• Application: Better visuals for external events
• Application: CTF compatibility improvements
• Application: CTF performance improvements
• Application: Fixed cropped Y axis labels in plots and histograms
• Application: Fixed filter so TraceX trace files are actually visible in the Open File dialog

Tracealyzer 4.4.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2020-10-07

• Application: DevAlert support
• Application: LTTng support
• Application: Lots of improvements for running on Linux
• Application: Fixed potential Filter toggle crash
• Application: Fixed crash that could occur when saving Statistics
• Application: Fixed instance where Selection Details didn’t update content properly
• Application: Quick Zoom (Ctrl+select interval with mouse)
• Application: Various stability improvements
• Application: Various performance improvements

Tracealyzer 4.3.11 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2020-06-24

• Application: RTX 5.5 support
• Recorder: Support for new FreeRTOS Task Notify index

Tracealyzer 4.3.10 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2020-06-11

• Application: Support for cloud hosted Percepio License Server
• Application: Various stability improvements

Tracealyzer 4.3.9 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2020-05-28

• Application: Fixed Snapshot save path selection
• Recorder: Removed accidental C99 dependency
• Recorder: Fixes for uC/OS-III v3.07

Tracealyzer 4.3.8 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2020-04-16

• Application: Added "shift click" time interval selection for graphs (already existed in Trace View)
• Application: Autoscroll added for easier drag selection of time intervals in Trace View
• Application: Various stability fixes
• Application: Various performance fixes
• Recorder: Added port for Cortex-R5
• Recorder: Added port for Altera Nios-II
• Recorder: Modified to work with FreeRTOS v10.3.X

Tracealyzer 4.3.7 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-12-18

• Application: Various performance and stability improvements
• Application: Fixed bug where actor instance plots would sometimes render incorrectly
• Recorder: Fixed compatibility issue with uC/OS-III v3.07.00

Tracealyzer 4.3.6 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-12-02

• Application: Various performance and stability improvements
• Recorder: Fixed issue where ISR naming would not always work
• Recorder: Fixed "errno" issue with certain compilers when using lwip streaming port
• Recorder: Recorder now makes sure all streaming trace header info is successfully sent before moving on
• Recorder: Recorder warns if TRC_CFG_PAGED_EVENT_BUFFER_PAGE_COUNT > 128 since code isn't designed for that
• Recorder: Made sure uiTraceSystemState is always declared in Snapshot recorder

Tracealyzer 4.3.5 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-06-26

• Application: Fixed status bars vertical size in Linux
• Application: Fixed actor color handling for Live traces
• Application: Stability fixes
• Recorder: Fixed reference issues in recorder

Tracealyzer 4.3.4 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-06-10

• Application: Fixed Linux startup script

Tracealyzer 4.3.3 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-06-05

• Application: Navigation keys reworked
• Application: Minor fix for feedback dialog
• Application: Fixed rare crash

Tracealyzer 4.3.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-05-29

• Application: Stability fixes
• Recorder: Fixed missing define for specific FreeRTOS configuration

Tracealyzer 4.3.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-05-15

• Application: Stability fixes
• Recorder: Name string no longer has to have unique address when calling xTraceSetISRProperties()

Tracealyzer 4.3.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-04-25

• Application: Open large PSF files faster
• Application: New Interval Details view
• Application: Tracealyzer will remember custom state machines
• Application: Improved state machine graph layout
• Application: Easier setup of Trace View fields
• Application: New view for Actor Migrations (multi core only)
• Application: New view for Unused Stack (only for some RTOS)
• Application: Automatic Event Filtering, allow some events to still be seen when zooming out
• Recorder: Improved Streaming stability
• Recorder: Support for Unused Stack events
• Recorder: Added vTraceVPrintF using va_list to better support replacing existing logging

Tracealyzer 4.2.12 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-03-06

• Application: Fixed selector in Memory Heap Utilization view

Tracealyzer 4.2.11 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-02-18

• Application: Fixed licensing issue

Tracealyzer 4.2.10 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2019-02-18

• Application: ThreadX support
• Application: Fixed FreeRTOS configuration issue for some "FromISR" services
• Application: Now asks to associate Tracealyzer with file extensions
• Application: Various stability fixes
• Application: Performance improvements
• Recorder: Fixed PIC24/PIC32 IRQ configuration

Tracealyzer 4.2.9 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-12-20

• Application: Automatic hiding of inactive actors (for large systems with many actors)
• Application: Improved library and documentation for VxWorks, making it easier to start, stop and save traces from the target code (see tracealyzer.h in the VxWorks directory)
• Application: Improved documentation for the "User Event Interpretations" dialog, that allows for parsing binary data blobs (e.g. saved using the VxWorks function wvEvent)
• Application: Filter panel now group objects by their type
• Application: Fixed an issue where some views, e.g. the CPU Load Graph, appeared empty under certain circumstances during live streaming
• Application: Various stability improvements

Tracealyzer 4.2.8 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-12-06

• Application: Improved handling of Project concept
• Application: Fixed issues with picking in collapsed Scheduling Field

Tracealyzer 4.2.7 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-12-05

• Application: VxWorks is now supported
• Application: Project concept for users with multiple targets has been greatly improved
• Application: Quick Finder (Ctrl+F) now works as expected
• Application: Warnings and Errors that occur in the recorder will now show up when loading the trace
• Application: Added support for setting a default Layout
• Application: Trace View Fields can be renamed
• Application: Improved documentation
• Application: Various stability improvements
• Application: Various performance improvements
• Recorder: Added the stream port for Amazon FreeRTOS TCP/WIFI
• Recorder: Fixed bug regarding Trace Warnings blocking Trace Errors from halting tracing

Tracealyzer 4.2.6 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-11-14

• Tracealyzer v4.2.6 release

Tracealyzer 4.2.5 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-10-26

• Tracealyzer v4.2.5 release

Tracealyzer 4.2.4 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-10-25

• Tracealyzer v4.2.4 release

Tracealyzer 4.2.3 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-10-22

• Tracealyzer v4.2.3 release

Tracealyzer 4.2.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-10-01

• Tracealyzer v4.2.2 release

Tracealyzer 4.2.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-09-18

• Fixes for new Trace View and Linux

Tracealyzer 4.2.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit) | Linux 64-bit
Released 2018-09-06

• Introducing the new Trace View and Linux support

Tracealyzer 4.1.6 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-08-01

• Bug fixes

Tracealyzer 4.1.5 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-07-04

• IAR streaming support

Tracealyzer 4.1.4 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-06-11

• Bug fixes

Tracealyzer 4.1.3 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-06-01

• Bug fixes

Tracealyzer 4.1.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-05-08

• Horizontal views now sync legend and scale widths, and it is possible to set "unsynchronized" filtering

Tracealyzer 4.1.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-05-04

• Bugs and performance issues fixed

Tracealyzer 4.1.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-05-01

• Bugs and performance issues fixed

Tracealyzer 4.0.3 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-04-12

• Bugs and performance issues fixed

Tracealyzer 4.0.2 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-03-26

• Fixed issue where CPU load was calculated wrong

Tracealyzer 4.0.1 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-03-20

• Fixed issue with filter control context menu

Tracealyzer 4.0.0 – Windows (64-bit) | Windows (32-bit)
Released 2018-03-15

• Initial Tracealyzer v4.0.0 release