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- Use a Sphinx/Myst {include} directive to pull the text from all previous
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- Exclude the RELEASE files from the files given to RTD to publish, they
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Release Notes
This document describes the changes that were included in the release of EPICS noted below. Release entries are now provided in a separate document for each version in the EPICS 7 series, but all are combined into a single page for publishing on the EPICS website. Separate release documents are also included from the older Base 3.15 and 3.16 series.
EPICS Release 7.0.4.1
ARM Architecture Changes
Build configuration files for a new cross-build architecture linux-aarch64
have been added, and the targets linux-arm_el and linux-arm_eb removed.
The 64-bit ARM architecture target doesn't have build files for self-hosting
yet but they should be relatively easy to add, contributions welcome!
Bug fixes
The following bugs/issues have fixes included in this release:
- lp: 1884339, Inaccessible CA servers on Windows
- github: 83 osdTimeGetCurrent doesn't work for subprocess on macOS
- Recent Cygwin build problem with a missing
TCP_NODELAYdeclaration.
Perl CA Bindings under Conda
Builds of the Perl CA bindings weren't working properly when the Perl installation was from Conda. This release also fixed the capr.pl script to handle the INT64 data types, and to be able to properly handle missing fields, as happens if the IOC is running an older EPICS version for example.
epicsMessageQueue implementation on RTEMS
The implementation of the epicsMessageQueue used on RTEMS has switched from
the native RTEMS-specific one to the EPICS generic version, avoiding a bug
in the RTEMS Kernel message queue code.
Record Name Validation
Historically, there have been very few restrictions on which characters may be present in record and alias names. Base 3.14.12.3 added a warning for names containing space, single or double quote, period/dot, or dollar sign.
Bad character ' ' in record name "bad practice"
7.0.4.1 Turns this warning into an error, and adds a new warning if a record name begins with a minus, plus, left square bracket, or left curly bracket.