EPICS Base R3.15.5: Known Problems
Any patch files linked below should be applied at the root of the
base-3.15.5 tree. Download them, then use the GNU Patch program as
follows:
% cd /path/to/base-3.15.5
% patch -p0 < /path/to/file.patch
The following significant problems have been reported with this
version of EPICS Base:
- 2018-04-11: This patch (updated on
2018-06-20) fixes a problem with some DNS configations which was originally
reported as lp:1580623
and fixed, but was subsequently reintroduced by the fix for
lp:1527636. The bug
itself can result in crashes of (usually short-lived) CA client programs
when they shut down.
- 2017-08-31: This patch is a fix for
Launchpad bug 1678494
which causes 3.15.5 IOCs to crash when reading a single character from a
long string (i.e. DBF_CHAR) array.
- 2017-08-23: setsockopt(..., IP_MULTICAST_LOOP, ...) needs a
different type for its data value argument on different OSs.
This patch should fix the issue for
the OSs we know about.
- 2017-06-22: Constant link initialization is possible using hex numbers
for IOCs running 3.14.12, but is
broken in 3.15
releases. This patch fixes the issue and
allows hex constants in some places where they didn't work before.
- 2017-04-24: IOCs with very large numbers of CA links may crash on shutdown
due to a bug in the dbCa code. This patch
solves the issue.