Versions rTPL Package

This document describes the changes between the various version.

RTPL-1.0

The first final version. Previous versions where pre-releases which where not available for downloading.

RTPL-1.1

The main differences compared to RTPL-1.0 are:

• A manual has been add where the non-Web oriented aspects of this package are explained in more detail. The index page of this manual is HTML/Doc/Manual/manual.html.
• More information has been add to the various index pages.
• Some minor changes. The most important fix is in the Bin/get_user_pids script which results that running tests at the control host are better detected.
• Extra comment and ";quot; line separators have been added to the JavaScript code.

RTPL-1.2

The main differences compared to RTPL-1.1* are:

• A client port for windows has been add. Therefore, also a remote Perl command server has been written as alternative for a remote shell command. This server is also available for Unix.
• The alarm functions and remote shell filter commands are better handled by using fork() with a pipe and redirection of Standard Error to a temporarily file than with the previous usage of open(descr,"command|").

RTPL-1.2.1

The main differences compared to RTPL-1.2 are:

• A better handling of the start and stop procedures of JAVA Threads in the Web presentation of the results.

RTPL_UFPmon-1.3

The main differences compared to RTPL-1.2* are:

• The distribution part, where new network monitors can be installed, may now be part of the current rTPL root directory.
• Support for the UDPmon toolkit has been included.

RTPL_UFPmon-1.4

The main differences compared to RTPL_UDPmon-1.3 are:

• Lowercase is used for all directory names.

RTPL_UFPmon-1-5

The main differences compared to RTPL_UFPmon-1.4 are:

• The UDPmon package V. 3.1 from Richard Hughes-Jones has been used.
• Some minor bug fixes are handled.
• There is now checked if the ping packet size opton will be accepted under Linux flavours.

RTPL_UFPmon-1-6

The main differences compared to RTPL_UFPmon-1.5 are:

• The plot window frame is now managed by a separate DataPlotWindow class.
• The paint() method in the user.plot.PlotCanvas class has improved and simpliefied. Correspondingly, the validate() method has been removed.