xxx Release Notes

Release 5-8

• Deleted xxxCommonInclude.dbd since it is no longer used.
• Many changes for sreaDetector-2-0
• Use the alive module
• Added xxx.sh, a script to start/stop/restart a linux ioc in a screen session. Improved in-screen.sh and run scripts.
• Rewrote xxxApp/src/Makefile: .dbd users must come after sources, so required stuff is defined before it is used, but .lib users must come before sources, so required references are encountered before a library is searched. Added ifdefs for ETHERIP, ALIVE, DELAYGEN, and VAC modules.
• New configure/CONFIG from 3.14.12.4 makeBaseApp
• start_caQtDM: Added drag-and-drop workaround for caQtDM.
• iocBoot/iocvxWorks, iocLinux: Changed many .cmd files to use doAfterIocInit. Added commented out examples of using autosaveBuild. (AutosaveBuild requires either base 3.15.1, or a patched copy of base 3.14.12.)
• iocBoot/iocvxWorks/softGlue.cmd: Example of registered interrupt service routine.
• iocBoot/ioc*/calc.cmd: new file
• xxxApp/src/Makefile: changes to build with 3.15
• Many changes to use caputRecorder

Release 5-7-1

• iocBoot/iocLinux: new filter.substitutions from optics, added async_pid_slow.substitutions, scan1Menu.req
• iocBoot/iocvxWorks: new filter.substitutions from optics

Release 5-7

• string sequence records moved from std to calc module
• Added .ui files for caQtDM
• rewrote xxxApp/src/Makefile to build dbd file and specify link libraries according to what modules are defined in configure/RELEASE
• SIS38xx setup changed for mca-7-3-1
• Added configMenu for softGlue and scans.
• Added support for async_pid_slow, new XIA filter software
• Deleted vxStats (replaced by devIocStats)

Release 5-6

• Include areaDetector, dxp, modbus, softGlue
• configure/RELEASE changes
• CSS-BOY displays and .def files
• start_epics for bash, setup_epics improvements
• Added op/burt directory for interp, softGlue
• vxStats replaced by devIocStats
• Many changes to match new or modified features in external modules.

Release 5-5

• Added busy module, deleted ccd and pilatus modules
• Deleted iocxxxCygwinInclude.dbd, iocxxxWin32Include.dbd, iocxxx_solarisInclude.dbd -- build the targets in Makefile instead.
• .dbd file changes to agree with synApps 5.5 module choices
• Additions for areaDetector
• added multilayer mono, FuncGen, softGlue to xxx.adl

Release 5-4

• Build modified to agree with 3.14.10 version of makeBaseApp.pl
• Use of genSub module replaced by use of aSub record from base 3.14.10.
• Use new busy module.
• iocSolaris: Added databases Io.db, ramp_tweak.db, pvHistory.db; must use 'var' to define variable

Release 5-3

• xxx/release.pl: Bug fix; "($macro) =" line was wrong. Support "include" entries without a macro.
• xxx/iocBoot/ioc*/*.substitutions: 3.14.9 will require macros in substitution files to be enclosed in quotes. Start now, since it's already legal.
• xxx/iocBoot/iocCygwin/saveData.req: added basename section
• xxx/iocBoot/ioc*: Some databases and autosave-request files in synApps have been renamed so that the autosave-request file name can be autogenerated easily from the database name, e.g.: .db <--> _settings.req. This will permit utils/makeAutosaveFiles.py to work more comprehensively.
• xxx/iocBoot/ioc*/save_restore.cmd: Added modbus, pilatus, and vac to requestfile path; Added call to save_restoreSet_UseStatusPVs()
• xxx/iocBoot/ioc*/st.cmd: scans.db was split into standardScans.db and saveData.db, so it's easier to load multiple scan databases.
• xxx/iocBoot/ioc*/interp_settings.req: moved to calc module (and modified there to agree with current interp database).
• unlisted changes in the build files to agree with changes in synApps.

Release 5-2

• iocBoot/iocCygwin/* -- Added examples for loading databases, specifying autosave PV's, and invoking SNL programs, for orientation matrix, femto amplifier, and pf4dual slit.

• pseudoMotor.db, sumDiff2D.db, and coordTrans2D.db are now in the motor module, and not in xxx. This affects some substitution files in iocBoot/ioc*.

• Some synApps databases used to specify input/output message terminators, and no longer do this. Message terminators must be specified in serial.cmd.

• Added examples for userArrayCalcs, pvHistory, XIA slit, string sequence, timer

• Specified message terminators for Digitel in serial.cmd

• Added example of setting system clock rate to iocvxWorks/st.cmd

• Added new motor types to xxxApp/src/*

• Scaler database loading has changed to accommodate asyn-based device support.

• Modified substitutions files in iocBoot/ioc* to enclose in quotes any macro substitutions that themselves contain macro arguments (i.e., X=$(Y) -> X="$(Y)"). This will be required in EPICS 3.14.9.

Release 5-1

• Fixes to run from support directory on the gateway.

• MPF is out; asyn is in

• Don't need to specify handshake PV in saveData.req. It's now hardwired into saveData.

• Split out many .cmd files from st.cmd

• Multi-element mca setup now in device-specific files

• Serial/GPIB config now in asynRecord.template, serial.cmd

• serial_OI_Block, GPIB_OI_Block -> deviceCmdReply

• cvs log

Release 5-0

• start_epics_xxx - added new modules to EPICS_DISPLAY_PATH. Added specification of EPICS_CA_MAX_ARRAY_BYTES

• documentation/vme_address.html - table of VME addresses, interrupt vectors, etc.

• iocxxx - split into iocUnix, iocvxWorks

• st.cmd, xxxApp/src - changed xxx.dbd to iocxxx.dbd, xxx_registerRecordDeviceDriver to iocxxx_registerRecordDeviceDriver because c function name cannot begin with a number

• st1.cmd - cd to topbin/../vxWorks-68040, so we don't have to have a separate cdCommands file. Load xxx.munch instead of a bunch of separate files

• st1.cmd - must configure dac before ip330PID

• vxStats.substitutions - new file to work with vxStats module

• pid*.substitutions, dac128V.substitutions - new files

• xxx.adl - added vxStats, Keithley 2000; changes in mca, DAC