diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.html b/RELEASE_NOTES.html index 7eab7eb3c..ea74c0528 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.html +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.html @@ -10,19 +10,16 @@
If logMsg was called by netTask it could cause the -ioc to hang. -To fix this problem the method of trapping logMsg calls has been changed. -The fix also means that any code that calls errlogAddListener, e.g. -CMLOG, will now receive the logMsg messages.
+Previously if a dbGetLink failed on one of the input links, dbGetLink -was not called for the remaining links. Now it is.
+ +Previously if a dbGetLink failed on one of the input links, dbGetLink was +not called for the remaining links. Now it is.
put notify did not act properly if a record had disp=TRUE, i.e. -if puts are disabled. It now returns S_db_putDisabled.
+ +put notify did not act properly if a record had disp=TRUE, i.e. if puts +are disabled. It now returns S_db_putDisabled.
The bug exists in probably in all previous versions of EPICS.
@@ -74,7 +70,8 @@ create a specialized vxWorks device driver which calls errlogPrintf for each incoming message and then call logFdAdd for a file descriptor opened with that device driver. The desirable functional change being errlogPrintf's capability to discard messages when it gets behind (because of a transient -mbuf starvation situation). +mbuf starvation situation). The fix also means that any code that calls +errlogAddListener, e.g. CMLOG, will now receive the logMsg messages."event task" changed tp "event_task".
Remove some dead code. -Clean up code for handling A24 DMA memory.
+ +Remove some dead code. Clean up code for handling A24 DMA memory.
A bug in dbGetLink resulted in nRequest not being given the value 0 if the link is a constant link. This in turn caused the waveform record to always set NORD=NELEM. Thus if an application trys to write a waveform via the @@ -99,7 +98,9 @@ steps:
This sets NORD = nNew. But because of the dbGetLink bug, the soft device support attached to the waveform record sets NORD to NELM.
+This problem is fixed. The actual bug was in macros in dbAccess.h
+