asyn R4-44 available

[Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Folks,

 

asyn R4-44 is now available. This is from the release notes:

 

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- devEpics

  - Rewrite the device support for arrays.

    Previously it used a large C macro to be able to support int8, int16, int32, float32, and float64

    data types without a lot of repetitive code.  This was changed to use a C++ template file.

  - Previously only the waveform record was supported for arrays.  Added support for aai and aoo records.

  - Add new devEpicsPvt functions (from Michael Davidsaver):

    - Avoids leaking DBENTRY during initialization.

    - Use dbInitEntry() from record rather than dbFindRecord() when available.

    - Reduces duplicate code.

 

- Documentation:

  - Converted all HTML files in documentation/ to Sphinx RST files in docs/source.

  - It uses the Read The Docs theme (sphinx-rtd-theme) which provides a panel

    on the left side of the screen for easy navigation.

  - Added Github actions to publish the Sphinx generated documentation to Github Pages.

  - The new home page for the asyn documentation is https://epics-modules.github.io/asyn.

  - Converted documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html to RELEASE.md.

 

- testErrorsApp

  - Add aai and aao records to databases in order to test new device support for these.

- Fix testing on Github Actions by forcing TIRPC=YES, required for modern Linux releases.

 

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Home: https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn

Documentation: https://epics-modules.github.io/asyn

Release notes: : https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn/blob/master/RELEASE.md

 

Mark