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@ -22,6 +22,34 @@ should also be read to understand what has changed since earlier releases:
## Changes made on the 7.0 branch since 7.0.7 ## Changes made on the 7.0 branch since 7.0.7
### bi "Raw Soft Channel" use MASK
If MASK is non-zero, The raw device support will now apply MASK to the
value read into RVAL.
eg. allows extraction of a bit from an input integer.
```
record(longin, "integer") {
field(VAL, "0xff")
}
record(bi, "bit1") {
field(DESC, "extract bit 1")
field(DTYP, "Raw Soft Channel")
field(INP , "integer")
field(MASK, "0x2")
field(ZNAM, "Clear")
field(ONAM, "Set")
}
```
### ANSI escapes in stderr
ANSI escape charactor sequences may now be printed to the stderr stream.
These escapes will appear in logs captured from that stream.
Tools which parse and/or render these logs may need to be adjusted to
either strip out the escapes, or to translate them into markup.
(see [ansi2html](https://pypi.org/project/ansi2html/) for example)
### Allow explicit append with `dbRecordsOnceOnly!=0` ### Allow explicit append with `dbRecordsOnceOnly!=0`
Previously setting `dbRecordsOnceOnly!=0` prevented any further changes to a record via a .db file. eg. Previously setting `dbRecordsOnceOnly!=0` prevented any further changes to a record via a .db file. eg.