Intel® Inspector Release Notes and New Features

This page provides the current Release Notes for Intel^® Inspector. The notes are categorized by year, from newest to oldest, with individual releases listed within each year.

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2021.4 Release

Release Notes

Overview

• Intel® Inspector has been updated to include more recent versions of 3rd party components, which include functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
• Improved C++ stack frames visualization.
• Reduced number of false reports on libc and OpenCL libraries.

2021.3

Release Notes

Overview

• Added correctness check for memcpy() function arguments on Windows. Inspector will report diagnostic if it detects overlapping of memcpy() arguments.

2021.2

Release Notes

Overview

• Locate and debug threading and memory errors in the GPU target Data Parallel C++ and OpenMP codes. (in technical preview)

NOTE: 2021.2 release is conflicted with 2021.1 release if it was installed by YUM, DNF, or Zypper package managers. Please remove 2021.1 release before installing 2021.2 release. To install both releases side-by-side, please use web distribution. For details, see Installation Using Package Managers

2021.1

Initial Release

Release Notes

•  Preview: memory and threading errors analysis for DPC++ and OpenMP offloaded codes, executed on CPU target.

2020

Update 3

Release Notes

• Intel® Inspector has been updated to include more recent versions of 3rd party components, which include functional and security updates.

Update 2

Release Notes

• Intel® Inspector has been updated to include more recent versions of 3rd party components, which include functional and security updates.

Update 1

Release Notes

• Intel® Inspector has been updated to include more recent versions of 3rd party components, which include functional and security updates.

Initial Release

Release Notes

• Intel® Inspector has been updated to include more recent versions of 3rd party components, which include functional and security updates.

2019

Update 5

Release Notes

Overview

• Intel Inspector has been updated to include more recent versions of 3rd party components, which include functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
• Implemented support for Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 Update 1 including integration with Visual Studio debugger.
• Bug fixes.

Update 4

Release Notes

Overview

• Fixed the bug preventing Inspector from working on Windows* 10 version 1809.
• Added support for Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2019.

Update 3

Release Notes

Overview

• Bug fixes.
• Simplified installation and licensing (serial numbers and license files are no longer required for this product).
• Support for Fedora* 29 added.

Update 2

Release Notes

Overview

• Intel® Inspector 2019 Update 2 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.

Update 1

Release Notes

Overview

• Support for Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 6.10
• Support for Ubuntu* 18.10
• Bug fixes

Initial release

Release Notes

Overview:

• Introduces Intel Inspector - Persistence Inspector feature
• New operating system support:
  • Fedora* 27
  • Ubuntu* 17.10
  • Microsoft* Windows* 10 RS3

Details:

Intel® Inspector—Persistence Inspector

Persistent memory is an emerging class of memory storage technology with great potential to improve application performance and reliability. Persistence Inspector finds persistence errors quickly and easily for fast, reliable software. It makes sure that all the data is flushed to persistent memory, is written in the right order, and is only written once.

Intel® Inspector - Persistence Inspector, currently available as a technology preview, is a new run-time tool developers can use to detect these programming errors in persistent memory programs. In addition to cache flush misses, this tool detects

• Redundant cache flushes and memory fences
• Out-of-order persistent memory stores
• Incorrect undo logging for the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK)

Intel® Inspector - Persistence Inspector - Getting Started

Intel® Inspector - Persistence Inspector - Register for tech preview

2018

Update 4

Release Notes

Overview

• Support for SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server* 15
• Support for Fedora* 28
• Support for Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 7.5
• Support for Ubuntu* 18.04
• Bug fixes

Update 3

Release Notes

Overview

• Inspector debugger add-on now supports Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2017
• Support for SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server* 12 SP3
• Support for Microsoft* Windows* 10 build 17134
• Bug fixes

Update 2

Release Notes

Overview

• Deadlocks detection on std::shared_mutex (C++17 standard)
• Support Fedora* 27
• Support Ubuntu* 17.10
• Support Microsoft* Windows* 10 build 1709
• Bug fixes

Update 1

Release Notes

Overview

• Fixed incompatibility with some antiviruses
• Other bug fixes

Initial Release

Release Notes

Overview

• Support for C++17 std::shared_mutex and Windows SRW Locks, that enable threading error analysis for applications with read/write synchronization primitives.
• Support for cross-OS analysis to all license types. The installation packages for additional operating system can be downloaded from registrationcenter.intel.com.
• Support and integration in Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017
• Support for Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors.
• Support for Microsoft* Windows Server* 2016.
• Support for Fedora 26
• Support for Ubuntu* 17.04
• Support for Debian* 9
• Support for SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server* 12 SP2
• Bug fixes

2017

Update 4

Linux* Release NotesWindows* Release Notes

Overview

• Added support for Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
• Added support for Microsoft* Windows Server 2016
• Added support Ubuntu* 17.04, SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server* 12 SP2
• Bug fixes

Update 3

Linux* Release NotesWindows* Release Notes

Overview

• Correctness improvements of uninitialized memory reads detection algorithm.
• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017.
• Bug fixes

Update 2

Linux* Release NotesWindows* Release Notes

Overview

• Bug fixes

Update 1

Linux* Release NotesWindows* Release Notes

Overview

• Bug fixes.

Initial Release

Linux* Release NotesWindows* Release Notes

Overview

• Added new OS support.
• Support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor (codename: Knights Landing)
• Variable name detection for threading analysis (global, static and stack variables)

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