Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Nothing yet!

4.7.0 - 2026-01-14

Added:

• Add support to change the callback buffer limit

Fixed:

• Update and fix iocStats

4.6.1 - 2025-04-22

Fixed:

• Fix releasing wheels for all platforms

4.6.0 - 2025-04-01

Added:

• Add autosave support to all records and record fields

• Add int64In/Out record support

• Enable setting alarm status of Out records

• Adding the non_interactive_ioc function

• Allow starting IOC without PVA

Removed:

• Remove python3.6 support

Changed:

• AsyncioDispatcher cleanup tasks atexit

• Ensure returned numpy arrays are not writeable

• Ensure records do not get stuck in processing state

• Remove __super attribute

Fixed:

• Fix conversion of ctypes pointers passed to C extension

4.5.0 - 2023-12-04

Changed:

• Add get_field and set_field methods to records

Fixed:

• Fix recursive set bug

4.4.0 - 2023-07-06

Changed:

• Improve string representation of RecordWrapper instances

• Use pvxslibs as PV Acess provider for IOC

Fixed:

• Fix devIocStats by including posix headers

4.3.0 - 2023-04-04

Added:

• Add Channel Access Report functions

• Add WaveformIn to default exports from softioc.builder

Fixed:

• Allow arrays of strings to be used with Waveforms

• Fix DeprecationWarning from numpy when using “+”

4.2.0 - 2022-11-08

Changed:

• Updated epicscorelibs to latest version, 7.0.7.99.0.0

Added:

• Allow “status” and “severity” on In record init

• Allow users to reset the list of created records

4.1.0 - 2022-08-05

Added:

• Caput with callback

Fixed:

• Update asyncio example to use dispatcher for custom function

• Passing a custom asyncio event loop into the AsyncioDispatcher causes methods to never run

4.0.2 - 2022-06-06

Changed:

• Improve handling of range settings for scalar records

Added:

• Add Python 3.10 support

Fixed:

• Installing from sdist now works on Windows

4.0.1 - 2022-02-14

Removed:

• Remove python2 support

Changed:

• Default DISP to TRUE for all In records

• Overhaul record value setting/getting

Added:

• New longStringIn/longStringOut record types

Fixed:

• Zero length waveforms now warn of invalid length

• Out records without explicit initial value are now correctly validated

• stringOut record values can now be correctly set in all cases

• Waveforms will correctly use NELM keyword during initialization

3.2.1 - 2021-11-25

Changed:

• Allow installation for python 3.6

Added:

• Provide logging for exceptions raised in callbacks

Fixed:

• Fixup atexit handling

• Fix main in Python2

3.2 - 2021-08-31

Changed:

• Repository changed from pythonIoc to pythonSoftIOC

• Executable name changed from pythonIoc to pythonSoftIOC

Added:

• Allow waveform.set() to be called before iocInit

• Allow AsyncioDispatcher to take existing event loop

• Support alarm.*_ALARM in mbb{In,Out}

Fixed:

• Bug if multiple projects use VersionGit

• Error if mbb{In,Out} given more that 16 labels

3.1 - 2021-07-07

Added:

• PVA support to the IOC

3.0 - 2021-07-05

Added:

• More documentation

Fixed:

• Mbbi/o specifying alarm values bug introduced in 3.0b2

3.0b2 - 2021-06-28

Changed:

• Restructured the docs

Removed:

• Option of specifying scalar value for mbbi and mbbo records

3.0b1 - 2021-06-28

Port to being a Python package

Changed:

• Removed ability to build as an EPICS module

• Restructure C code as Python extension

• Make devIocStats a submodule

• Now has a hard dependency on epicscorelibs

Added:

• asyncio support

2-16 - 2019-12-10

Last release as an EPICS module rather than a Python package