areaDetector Release Notes

Release 1-2 (xxx-June-2008)

• Major update to documentation>
• Significant enhancement to ROI plugin. Added net counts, ROI highlighting.
• Added driver for Pilatus detectors
• Added driver for ADSC detectors (done by Lewis Muir, IMCA-CAT)
• Renamed asynParamBase to asynPortDriver.
• Renamed NDArrayBase to NDArrayDriver
• Renamed NDPluginBase to NDPluginDriver
• Renamed NDArrayBuff to NDArrayPool, now in NDArray.cpp.
• Renamed ADDriverBase to ADDriver
• Removed ADUtils
• The asynHandle interface in asyn was renamed to asynGenericPointer, many changes to incorporate this.
• Removed separate readback parameters in drivers and template files
• Changed from mbbi/mbbo records to bi/bo records where possible now that the asynInt32 interface supports bi/bo records.
• Base class constructor no longer initializes all asyn interfaces, only the selected ones.
• NDArray pool is no longer global, each server creates its own pool if needed.
• Implemented real routines for writeInt32, writeFloat64, and writeOctet in asynPortDriver.cpp, removed them from ADDriver.cpp where they were not needed.

Release 1-1 (10-May-2008)

• Major rewrite. Converted device drivers and plugins from C to C++ with C++ base classes that handle many of the details of asyn and of callbacks and threading for plugins.
• Everything except device drivers and top-level EPICS databases and channel access clients are now fully N-dimensional, not restricted to 2-D.
• NDPluginFile now uses netCDF format, which is a portable self-describing binary file format.
• Added NDPluginROI which implements region-of-interest.

Release 1-0 (11-Apr-2008)

• Initial release, still many things remaining to be done.