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@ -18,9 +18,20 @@ should also be read to understand what has changed since earlier releases:
- [pva2pva](https://epics-base.github.io/pva2pva/release_notes.html)
- [pvaClient](https://github.com/epics-base/pvaClientCPP/blob/master/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.md)
**This version of EPICS has not been released yet.**
## EPICS Release 7.0.8.1
## Changes made on the 7.0 branch since 7.0.8
### Limit to `_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2`
GCC versions 12 and beyond and glibc have added some aggressive runtime
checks for buffer overflows in libc functions at runtime, and the
[Ubuntu 2024.04](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ToolChain/CompilerFlags) release
increased their default gcc fortification level from 2 to 3.
This has started causing EPICS Base builds to fail on that version, and
other OS releases may make that configuration change with similar results.
This release detects a compiler configured with `_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3` and
overrides it to 2.
Later releases of Base will adjust the code, providing information to the
compiler to avoid triggering these incorrect protections.
### Fix issue with compress record
@ -28,6 +39,33 @@ In Base 7.0.8, an update to the compress record was added to allow for certain
algorithms to use partially filled buffers in their computations. Unfortunately,
this broke the behaviour of the records in certain cases. This has been fixed.
### Various minor changes
These included fixing minor memory leaks and documentation corrections. The
`SIZV` field of lsi, lso and printf record VAL fields now can't exceed 32767
characters, to match an internal limit.
### `epicsSocketAccept()` now returns `SOCKET`, not `int`
This might have some effect on downstream modules still using `int`, but the
OS-specific osdSock.h headers which osiSock.h includes have all declared
`SOCKET` (in most casese as a typedef for `int`) for many releases.
This change removes a compiler warning on WIN32.
Further details and the discussion about this change can be found
[here](https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/458).
### `dbLoadRecords` allows macros with default values
Previously the parser assumed that files containing macro substitutions were
bad if no macro definitions were provided; that assumption was made incorrect
once macro substitutions were allowed to provide a default value.
### Hostname length limit in CA removed
Before this release, the CA client library only handled hostnames in address
list environment variables up to 255 characters long.
This limit has been removed.
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## EPICS Release 7.0.8

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@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ everything that has to be done since it's so easy to miss steps.</p>
<li>Tag the module:
<blockquote><tt>
git tag -m 'ANJ: Tag for EPICS 7.0.8' &lt;module-version&gt;
git tag -m 'ANJ: Tag for EPICS 7.0.8.1' &lt;module-version&gt;
</tt></blockquote>
</li>
@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ everything that has to be done since it's so easy to miss steps.</p>
<td>Tag the epics-base module in Git:
<blockquote><tt>
cd base-7.0<br />
git tag -m 'ANJ: Tagged for release' R7.0.8
git tag -m 'ANJ: Tagged for release' R7.0.8.1
</tt></blockquote>
<p>Don't push to GitHub yet.</p>
</td>
@ -303,12 +303,12 @@ everything that has to be done since it's so easy to miss steps.</p>
files and directories that are only used for continuous integration:
<blockquote><tt>
cd base-7.0<br />
./.tools/make-tar.sh R7.0.8 ../base-7.0.8.tar.gz base-7.0.8/
./.tools/make-tar.sh R7.0.8.1 ../base-7.0.8.1.tar.gz base-7.0.8.1/
</tt></blockquote>
Create a GPG signature file of the tarfile as follows:
<blockquote><tt>
cd ..<br />
gpg --armor --sign --detach-sig base-7.0.8.tar.gz
gpg --armor --sign --detach-sig base-7.0.8.1.tar.gz
</tt></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ everything that has to be done since it's so easy to miss steps.</p>
<td>Upload the tar file and its <tt>.asc</tt> signature file to the
epics-controls web-server.
<blockquote><tt>
scp base-7.0.8.tar.gz base-7.0.8.tar.gz.asc epics-controls:download/base<br />
scp base-7.0.8.1.tar.gz base-7.0.8.1.tar.gz.asc epics-controls:download/base<br />
</tt></blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
@ -397,8 +397,8 @@ everything that has to be done since it's so easy to miss steps.</p>
<td><input type="checkbox"></td>
<td>Release Manager</td>
<td>Go to the GitHub
<a href="https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/releases/new?tag=R7.0.8">
Create release from tag R7.0.8</a> page.
<a href="https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/releases/new?tag=R7.0.8.1">
Create release from tag R7.0.8.1</a> page.
Upload the tar file and its <tt>.asc</tt> signature file to the new
GitHub release page.</td>
</tr>