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Release Notes

VisualVM 2.1.7 has been released on September 19th, 2023. This document describes changes introduced by this release.

System Requirements

Supported OS:

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux: Intel platform, ARM HFLT, AArch64
  • macOS: Intel platform, Apple Silicon

Required Software:

  • Oracle JDK 8~21
  • OpenJDK 8~21
  • GraalVM 19~23

Changes

Features and Enhancements:

  • Full support for running on/monitoring & profiling JDK 21:
  • Heap viewer improvements:
    • GH-501: [HeapViewer] display logical value of java.lang.VirtualThread

Fixed Bugs:

  • GH-520: [HeapViewer] Incorrect object array size
  • GH-519: Missing known blocking method in UnixDomainSockets and EPoll
  • GH-518: Wrong max heap detected when using Generational ZGC.
  • GH-515: OQL: TypeError: Right-hand-side of instanceof is not callable in at line number 1299
  • GH-509: Maven process not recognized
  • GH-508: Incorrect description for maven process
  • GH-500: [JFR] Threads with same name merged
  • GH-498: Control+click on macOS on a row in CPU Sampler does not display context menu
  • GH-496: Profiler tabs show same results
  • GH-495: NetBeans platform application without name and version
  • GH-493: Application detected as "Local Application"
  • GH-490: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in "eager instrumentation scheme"

Known Problems

To view all known problems please see the VisualVM Issues page.

To resolve the most common problems please follow the Troubleshooting Guide.