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Andrew Johnson
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<h2 align="center">Changes between 3.14.10 and 3.14.11</h2>
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<h4>Use of SIGALRM disabled</h4>
<p>Previous releases that supported HPUX required that EPICS trap and be able to
generate the SIGALRM signal in order to break out of a blocking socket system
call on those systems (Posix only). There were two API routines that had to be
called by any code using sockets to properly support this. Since we no longer
support HPUX this code is no longer required, and as it breaks the Posix timer
interface on Linux it has been disabled in this release. The API routines now do
nothing on all platforms, and will be removed before the 3.15 Release of
Base.</p>
<h4>Universal Binaries on Darwin</h4>
<p>It is now possible to configure Base on Darwin to build universal binaries