pvaClient/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.md

EPICS V4 release 4.7

Works with release/7.0 of pvDataCPP and release/6.0 of pvAccessCPP

Will not work with older versions.

destroy methods removed

All the destroy methods are removed since implementation is RAII compliant.

API changes to PvaClientMonitor

The second argument of method

static PvaClientMonitorPtr create(
    PvaClientPtr const &pvaClient,
    epics::pvAccess::Channel::shared_pointer const & channel,
    epics::pvData::PVStructurePtr const &pvRequest
);

Is now changed to

static PvaClientMonitorPtr create(
    PvaClientPtr const &pvaClient,
    PvaClientChannelPtr const & pvaClientChannel,
    epics::pvData::PVStructurePtr const &pvRequest
);

A new method is also implemented

static PvaClientMonitorPtr create(
    PvaClientPtr const &pvaClient,
    std::string const & channelName,
    std::string const & providerName,
    std::string const & request,
    PvaClientChannelStateChangeRequesterPtr const & stateChangeRequester,
    PvaClientMonitorRequesterPtr const & monitorRequester
);

EPICS V4 release 4.6

• The examples are moved to exampleCPP.
• Support for channelRPC is now available.
• In PvaClientMultiChannel checkConnected() now throws an exception if connect fails.

EPICS V4 release 4.5

pvaClient is a synchronous API for pvAccess.

This is the first release of pvaClientCPP. It provides an API that is similar to pvaClientJava.