Release Notes

Release 1.4.2 (Oct 2026)

• Minor bug fixes

Release 1.4.1 (December 2023)

• Bug Fixes
  • dbLoadGroup was fixed
• Additions
  • Support for "meta" member at top of array of structs

Release 1.4.0 (September 2022)

• Bug Fixes
  • apply ACF when writing to atomic group
• Additions
  • Add new "structure" to Field mapping types
• Changes
  • Add Access Security hooks for single and group writes.
  • Enable "Async Soft Channel" for output links
  • When built against Base 7.0.6.1, set timeStamp.userTag from UTAG field.
  • Add DTYP="QSRV Set UTag" for longin, which sets UTAG=VAL.

Release 1.3.1 (June 2021)

• Bug Fixes
  • Correct handling for server side filters.
• Changes
  • Syncing softMain.cpp with epics-base

Release 1.3.0 (Feb 2021)

• Changes
  • Add dbLoadGroup() iocsh function to read group JSON definitions from a file. Mappings in files must refer to full record names instead of fields. eg. 'recname.VAL' instead of 'VAL'.

Release 1.2.4 (July 2020)

• Bug Fixes
  • Fix stalled monitor when server side filter drops initial DBE_PROPERTY update.
  • Respect DISP
• Changes
  • Refreshed softIocPVA to match options in Base.

Release 1.2.3 (May 2020)

• P2P gateway deprecated in favor of https://mdavidsaver.github.io/p4p/gw.html

Release 1.2.2 (Nov 2019)

• Changes
  • Enforce Access Security policy.
  • NTEnum .value field add missing "enum_t" type ID string.

Release 1.2.1 (July 2019)

• Fixes
  • Fix unittest: testpvalink. No functional change.

Release 1.2.0 (Mar 2019)

• Incompatible changes
  • The field 'display.format' is replaced with 'display.form' and 'display.precision'. https://github.com/epics-base/pva2pva/issues/19
• Additions
  • Use

    info(Q:form, "...") 

    to set 'display.form'. See QSRV Display Form Option
• Fixes
  • Correct handling of 64-bit integer fields.
  • Install a copy of softIocExit.db for standalone builds

Release 1.1.0 (Nov 2018)

• Incompatible changes
  • Requires pvDataCPP >= 7.1.0
  • Requires pvAccessCPP >= 6.1.0
• Removals
  • Drop the broken ioccircle and ioccircle2 examples.
• Fixes
  • Fix QSRV monitor locking causing crash
  • Fix Windows DLL import/export errors
  • Correctly handle empty "scalar" case of NELM=1, NORD=0.
• Additions
  • QSRV implement channelList() (aka. 'pvlist') with list of record and group names.
  • PVAccess Links type (requires Base >= 3.16.1)

Release 1.0.0 (Dec 2017)

Initial Release