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# Release notes for EiffelStudio 5.7 related to the debugger

## Graphical environment

- More flexibility has been added for the layout in the debugging tool. One can merge the Current objects with the locals and arguments.
- The objects and watches tools restore the tree structure when stepping, and highlight value differences.
- New thread tool that let you switch from one thread to another while debugging.
- New Exception handling tool that let you ignore or catch certain kind of exceptions.
- New breakpoint tool to see at glance the status of all your breakpoints.
- Added ability to see the routine that defines an agent object (classic only for now).

## Debugger engine

- One can debug multithreaded application.
- One can ignore certain kind of exceptions.
- One can disable Assertion checking during debugging (only classic system for now).
- Dotnet debugger is now much more stable for dotnet 2.0
- Improved expression evaluation error reporting system to provide more information

## Current restrictions and known issues

- You will find a list here