From cfe5cfa9ca707130103855ce0abb8ca460d19256 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:25:21 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Merge 'ignore-siml-failure' and document.

---
 documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html | 11 +++++++++++
 modules/database                 |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
index 276687c23..ee324ea3a 100644
--- a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
+++ b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@
 
 -->
 
+<h3>Changed SIML failure behavior</h3>
+
+<p>A failure when fetching the simulation mode through <tt>SIML</tt> will not
+put the record into INVALID alarm state anymore. Instead, as long as the
+record's current alarm severity (<tt>SEVR</tt>)is NO_ALARM, its alarm status
+(<tt>STAT</tt>) will be set to LINK_ALARM without increasing the severity. This
+allows clients to get some notification of a failing or bad <tt>SIML</tt> link
+without otherwise affecting record processing.</p>
+
+
 <h3>dbVerify() has been restored to dbStaticLib</h3>
 
 <p>This routine was removed in Base-3.16.1 but has been reimplemented in this
@@ -24,6 +34,7 @@ release by special request. Note that the error message strings that it returns
 when verification fails have changed, but are still designed for display to the
 user.</p>
 
+
 <h3>Simulation mode improvements</h3>
 
 <p>Records that support simulation mode have two new fields, <tt>SSCN</tt>
diff --git a/modules/database b/modules/database
index d1a183296..eac8865b7 160000
--- a/modules/database
+++ b/modules/database
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit d1a1832968a5ec6d0ef5a6de1ecf7e8f6c9984d1
+Subproject commit eac8865b7f685988ed2dc3678574f9c1a226320b