Intel® Advisor XE 2013 Update 5 is now available!

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Intel(R) Advisor XE 2013 Update 5 is now available for both Linux* and Windows*. You can learn more about the product at the Intel(R) Advisor XE Home Page. You can always access the product Release Notes and what is new in this Update 5 in the related Readme file.

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Here is what's new in Update 5:

• Support for Microsoft Windows* 8.1 and Visual Studio* 2013 (Windows* only)
• A new Option lets you choose which Linux editor appears when you double-click a Source window line. The corresponding file and location appears in the specified Linux editor. You can still specify a Linux editor using an environment variable. (Linux* only)
• The annotation assistant pane now appears with the Suitability Report and Correctness Report "No Data messages" to help you insert annotations (as well as in Survey windows).
• The annotation wizard drop-down list now provides two new items that let you copy code snippets for both site and task annotations.
• New command line options for the collect action: data-limit, interval, mrte-mode, no-follow-child, and target-duration-type.
• Various usability and stability improvements, such as improved wording in the annotation assistant pane.