release_note

This file records important changes that made in each release.  Those are
picked by human sense, so could be incomplete and missing many things.

v1.9.7
- Reverse unnecessary support of DAMON's moving access rate
- Support DAMOS apply intrvals (feature on damon/next only as of this release)
- Support DAMOS recording (feature on damon/next only as of this release)

v1.9.6
- Remove '<age access_rate size> region format keyword
  - Should use only '<box>'
- Add '<region box description>' snapshot keyword
- Add '--region_box' option for shortcut of box-based representation
- Allow per-key reverse sorting of regions
- Minimul support of DAMON's moving access rate

v1.9.5
- Code cleanup

v1.9.4
- DAMON command line options: Support multiple DAMOS schemes
- damo show: Support log/linear scale of region box

v1.9.3
- Restore --ascii_color and --plot_ascii of 'damo report heat'
- damo show: Support coloring of region box
- damo show: Implement '<age heat bar>'
- damo show: Make region box to use logscale for columns and rows
- damo show: Support more region box customizations

v1.9.2
- Support DAMOS filters, quotas, and watermarks via command line
- Support target idx DAMOS filter
- Implement '<size heat bar>' and '<size heat age bar>' region format keyword
  for 'damo show' (likely be changed in future)

v1.9.1
- Remove 'damo stat'
- 'damo show' update
  - Support address range based filtering
  - Add snapshot format keyword for number of regions
  - Implement '<size bar>' region format keyword (subject to change in future)

v1.9.0
- Mark 'damo stat' as deprecated
- Use '--force' for 'perf script'
- Internal code cleanup

v1.8.9
- Support flexible formatting of 'damo show' output
- Implement access pattern based 'damo show' output sorting
- Support --tried_regions_of option of 'damo show'
- Cleanup _damon_resul.py

v1.8.8
- Support under-development schemes tried regions total bytes file
- Fix empty snapshot for vaddr ops issue
- Polish 'damo show' output format
- Support 'update_schemes_tried_bytes' DAMON sysfs command

v1.8.7
- Stop supporting non-mainlined DAMOS kernel implementations
- Rename 'damo show status' into 'damo status'
- Re-implement 'damo show': Support snapshot and record files, but still not
  stabilized

v1.8.6
- Cleanup code

v1.8.5
- Add a not yet stabilized version of 'damo show'

v1.8.4
- Remove Python2 support
- Cleanup code

v1.8.3
- Remove '--rbuf' and kernel-direct record file generation support code
- More documentation of deprecated features
- Implement '--include_childs' option for 'damo record'
- Move single line DAMOS schemes input handling to a new module,
  _damo_deprecated

v1.8.2
- Support zlib-compressed json format monitoring record file
- Use zlib-compressed json format monitoring record file format by default