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<h1 align="center">xxx Release Notes</h1>

<h2 align="center">Release 5-3</h2>
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<li>xxx/release.pl: Bug fix; "($macro) =" line was wrong.  Support "include"
entries without a macro.
<li>xxx/iocBoot/ioc*/*.substitutions: 3.14.9 will require macros in substitution
files to be enclosed in quotes.  Start now, since it's already legal.
<li>xxx/iocBoot/iocCygwin/saveData.req: added basename section
<li>xxx/iocBoot/ioc*: Some databases and autosave-request files in synApps
have been renamed so that the autosave-request file name can be autogenerated
easily from the database name, e.g.: <name>.db <--> <name>_settings.req.
This will permit utils/makeAutosaveFiles.py to work more comprehensively.
<li>xxx/iocBoot/ioc*/save_restore.cmd: Added modbus, pilatus, and vac to
requestfile path; Added call to save_restoreSet_UseStatusPVs()
<li>xxx/iocBoot/ioc*/st.cmd: scans.db was split into standardScans.db and
saveData.db, so it's easier to load multiple scan databases.
<li>xxx/iocBoot/ioc*/interp_settings.req: moved to calc module (and modified
there to agree with current interp database).
<li>unlisted changes in the build files to agree with changes in synApps. 
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<h2 align="center">Release 5-2</h2>
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<li><p>iocBoot/iocCygwin/* -- Added examples for loading databases,
specifying autosave PV's, and invoking SNL programs, for orientation matrix,
femto amplifier, and pf4dual slit.
<li><p>pseudoMotor.db, sumDiff2D.db, and coordTrans2D.db are now in the motor
module, and not in xxx.  This affects some substitution files in iocBoot/ioc*.
<li><p>Some synApps databases used to specify input/output message terminators,
and no longer do this.  Message terminators must be specified in serial.cmd.
<li><p>Added examples for userArrayCalcs, pvHistory, XIA slit, string sequence, timer
<li><p>Specified message terminators for Digitel in serial.cmd
<li><p>Added example of setting system clock rate to iocvxWorks/st.cmd
<li><p>Added new motor types to xxxApp/src/*
<li><P>Scaler database loading has changed to accommodate asyn-based device support.
<li>Modified substitutions files in iocBoot/ioc* to enclose in quotes any macro
substitutions that themselves contain macro arguments (i.e., X=$(Y) -> X="$(Y)").
This will be required in EPICS 3.14.9.
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<h2 align="center">Release 5-1</h2>
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<li><p>Fixes to run from support directory on the gateway.
<li><p>MPF is out; asyn is in
<li><p>Don't need to specify handshake PV in saveData.req.  It's now
hardwired into saveData.
<li><p>Split out many .cmd files from st.cmd
<li><p>Multi-element mca setup now in device-specific files
<li><p>Serial/GPIB config now in asynRecord.template, serial.cmd
<li><p>serial_OI_Block, GPIB_OI_Block -> deviceCmdReply
<li><p><a href="cvsLog.txt">cvs log</a>
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<h2 align="center">Release 5-0</h2>
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<li><p>start_epics_xxx - added new modules to EPICS_DISPLAY_PATH.  Added
specification of EPICS_CA_MAX_ARRAY_BYTES
<li><p>documentation/vme_address.html - table of VME addresses, interrupt vectors, etc.
<li><p>iocxxx - split into iocUnix, iocvxWorks
<li><p>st.cmd, xxxApp/src - changed xxx.dbd to iocxxx.dbd, xxx_registerRecordDeviceDriver to
iocxxx_registerRecordDeviceDriver because c function name cannot begin with a number
<li><p>st1.cmd - cd to topbin/../vxWorks-68040, so we don't have to have a separate
cdCommands file.  Load xxx.munch instead of a bunch of separate files
<li><p>st1.cmd - must configure dac before ip330PID
<li><p>vxStats.substitutions - new file to work with vxStats module
<li><p>pid*.substitutions, dac128V.substitutions - new files
<li><p>xxx.adl - added vxStats, Keithley 2000; changes in mca, DAC
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    Suggestions and Comments to: <br>
    <a href="mailto:mooney@aps.anl.gov">Tim Mooney </a>:
    (mooney@aps.anl.gov) <br>
    Last modified: March 5, 2004 
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