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This document summarizes the changes to the module between releases.
## Release 6.0.0 (EPICS 7.0.3, July 2019)
* Reimplement `isCompatible` methods to use a new internal validation API in order to make the implementation uniform, less repetitive and less strict.
The new implementation is less strict in the sense that it considers types that can be converted into one another compatible with each other. For example, any `Scalar` is considered compatible with any other `Scalar`, regardless of the underlying type. Normative Types users are advised to use `getAs` and `putFrom` when getting/putting data from/into `PVScalar`s and `PVScalarArray`s.
Also, `isCompatible` methods now disregard field order and extra fields that are not part of the specification.
This change is not expected to break any current server or client, but it will break existing clients that rely on the previous `isCompatible` strictness once servers start to take advantage of `isCompatible` now being less strict.
## Release 5.2.2
- Fix NTTable::getColumnNames().