This is draft for future release notes, that are going to land on the Flutter website.

DevTools 2.30.0 release notes

The 2.30.0 release of the Dart and Flutter DevTools includes the following changes among other general improvements. To learn more about DevTools, check out the DevTools overview.

General updates

  • Enabled DevTools extensions when debugging a Dart entry point that is not under lib (e.g. a unit test or integration test). Thanks to @bartekpacia for this change! - #6644

Inspector updates

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Performance updates

  • Add an indicator of the rendering engine to the Flutter Frames chart. - #6771 Flutter rendering engine text
  • Improve messaging when we do not have analysis data available for a Flutter frame. - #6768

CPU profiler updates

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Memory updates

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Debugger updates

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Network profiler updates

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Logging updates

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App size tool updates

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VS Code Sidebar updates

  • The Flutter Sidebar provided to VS Code now has the ability to enable new platforms if a device is available for a platform that is not enabled for the current project. This also requires a corresponding Dart extension for VS Code update to appear
  • The DevTools menu in the sidebar now has now has an entry “Open in Browser” that opens DevTools in an external browser window even when VS Code settings are set to usually use embedded DevTools.

Full commit history

To find a complete list of changes in this release, check out the DevTools git log.