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<h2 align="center">Changes from the 3.14 branch since 3.15.6</h2>
<h3>Routine <tt>epicsTempName()</tt> removed from libCom</h3>
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<p>This routine was a simple wrapper around the C89 function <tt>tmpnam()</tt>
which is now seen as unsafe and causes warning messages to be generated by
most modern compilers. The two internal uses of this function have been
modified to call <tt>epicsTempFile()</tt> instead. We were unable to find any
published code that used this function, so it was removed immediately instead
of being deprecated.</p>
<h3>DBD Parsing of Record Types</h3>
<p>The Perl DBD file parser has been made slightly more liberal; the order in
which DBD files must be parsed is now more flexible, so that a record type
definition can now be parsed after a device support that referred to that
record type. A warning message will be displayed when the device support is
seen, but the subsequent loading of the record type will be accepted without
triggering an error. See
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/epics-base/+bug/1801145">Launchpad bug
#1801145</a>.</p>
<h3>menuScan and several record types documented with POD</h3>
<p>The EPICS Wiki pages describing a number of standard record types has been
converted into the Perl POD documentation format and added to the DBD files,
so at build-time an HTML version of these documents is generated and installed
into the htmls directory. Thanks to Tony Pietryla.</p>
<h3>CA client tools learned <tt>-V</tt> option</h3>
<p>This displays the version numbers of EPICS Base and the CA protocol.</p>
<h2 align="center">Changes made between 3.15.5 and 3.15.6</h2>