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<h1>
EPICS Release base 3.14.0alpha1</h1>
This is the first release of 3.14. This is the first release that supports
iocCore on platforms besides vxWorks.
<p>iocCore is now supported on the following platforms:
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vxWorks</li>
<br>Tornado II is required.
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RTEMS</li>
<br>An open source real time operating system. It has been tested on MVME167
and MC68360 processors. RTEMS also supports powerPC.
<li>
solaris</li>
<br>Has been tested on solaris 2.6 and solaris 8.
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Linux</li>
<br>Has been tested on Redhat x86 platforms.
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winNT</li>
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A new version of the Application Developers Guide is available. The following
gives links to the new Application Developer's Guide and to RTEMS information.
<p>http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/base/R3-14.php
<p>Most of the Application Developer's Guide has only minor changes. The
following are new.
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Chapter 2 describes the new features for 3.14.</li>
<li>
Chapter 4 describes the build facility for 3.14</li>
<li>
Chapters 19 and 20 describe libCom, which was not previously documented.</li>
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<p><br>It must be emphasized that this is an alpha release.
<ul>
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Please don't use it for existing operational systems</li>
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Don't build your operational CA clients with it.</li>
<li>
The APIs for new components in libCom are still evolving so if you use
them be prepared for changes.</li>
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HPUX - No support currently because we could not find good support for
multithreading.</li>
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Building Applications
<ul>
<li>
For new applications see Chapters 2 (New Features) and Chapter 4 (Build
Facility) of the Application Developer's Guide.</li>
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For existing applications the old config rules are still supported. Some
changes, however, are needed. Documentation is being prepared and will
appear in these release notes sooon.</li>
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