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Andrew Johnson
2016-03-03 16:02:46 -06:00
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<p style="color:red">This version of EPICS Base has not been released yet.</p>
<h2 align="center">Changes between 3.15.3 and 3.15.4</h2>
<h2 align="center">Changes made on the 3.15 branch since 3.15.3</h2>
<!-- Insert new items immediately below here ... -->
<h3>RTEMS NTP Support Issue</h3>
<p>On RTEMS the NTP Time Provider could in some circumstances get out of sync
with the server because the osdNTPGet() code wasn't clearing its input socket
before sending out a new request. This
(<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1549908">Launchpad bug 1549908</a>)
has now been fixed.</p>
<h3>CA server configuration changes</h3>
<p>RSRV now honors EPICS_CAS_INTF_ADDR_LIST and binds only to the provided list
@@ -49,29 +42,6 @@ for servers (IOCs should set both). For example:
<p>Please note that no IPv4 multicast address is officially assigned for Channel
Access by IANA. The example 224.0.2.9 is taken from the AD-HOC Block I range.<p>
<h3>CALC engine bitwise operator fixes</h3>
<p>The bitwise operators in the CALC engine have been modified to work properly
with values that have bit 31 (0x80000000) set. This modification involved
back-porting some earlier changes from the 3.15 branch, and fixes
<a href="https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/1514520">Launchpad bug
#1514520</a>.</p>
<h3>Fix <tt>ipAddrToAsciiAsync()</tt>: Don't try to join the daemon thread</h3>
<p>On process exit, don't try to stop the worker thread that makes DNS lookups
asynchronous. Previously this would wait for any lookups still in progress,
delaying the exit unnecessarily. This was most obvious with catools (eg.
cainfo).
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/epics-base/+bug/1527636">lp:1527636</a></p>
<h3>Fix epicsTime_localtime() on Windows</h3>
<p>Simpler versions of the epicsTime_gmtime() and epicsTime_localtime()
routines have been included in the Windows implementations, and a new test
program added. The original versions do not report DST status properly. Fixes
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1528284">Launchpad bug 1528284</a>.</p>
<h3>Moved <tt>mlockall()</tt> into its own epicsThread routine</h3>
<p>Since EPICS Base 3.15.0.2 on Posix OSs the initialization of the epicsThread
@@ -99,6 +69,41 @@ dbQuietMacroWarnings=1 <i>VxWorks</i>
541119</a>.</p>
<h2 align="center">Changes pulled from the 3.14 branch since 3.15.3</h2>
<!-- Insert inherited items immediately below here ... -->
<h3>RTEMS NTP Support Issue</h3>
<p>On RTEMS the NTP Time Provider could in some circumstances get out of sync
with the server because the osdNTPGet() code wasn't clearing its input socket
before sending out a new request. This
(<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1549908">Launchpad bug 1549908</a>)
has now been fixed.</p>
<h3>CALC engine bitwise operator fixes</h3>
<p>The bitwise operators in the CALC engine have been modified to work properly
with values that have bit 31 (0x80000000) set. This modification involved
back-porting some earlier changes from the 3.15 branch, and fixes
<a href="https://code.launchpad.net/bugs/1514520">Launchpad bug
#1514520</a>.</p>
<h3>Fix <tt>ipAddrToAsciiAsync()</tt>: Don't try to join the daemon thread</h3>
<p>On process exit, don't try to stop the worker thread that makes DNS lookups
asynchronous. Previously this would wait for any lookups still in progress,
delaying the exit unnecessarily. This was most obvious with catools (eg.
cainfo).
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527636">lp:1527636</a></p>
<h3>Fix <tt>epicsTime_localtime()</tt> on Windows</h3>
<p>Simpler versions of the epicsTime_gmtime() and epicsTime_localtime()
routines have been included in the Windows implementations, and a new test
program added. The original versions do not report DST status properly. Fixes
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1528284">Launchpad bug 1528284</a>.</p>
<h2 align="center">Changes between 3.15.2 and 3.15.3</h2>
<h3>Make the NTP Time provider optional on VxWorks</h3>