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Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Base Release 3.14.12

The latest stable release is 3.14.12.2. Version 3.14.12 was the last version in the 3.14 series before new development was focused on the 3.15 series.

Documentation

The following documents cover EPICS Base version 3.14.12 and subsequent patch releases. Additional documentation can also be found in the documentation subdirectory of the distribution source code.

NOTE: These documents may be revised at any time without generation of a new source release. In particular the Known Problems page will be updated with patches for any serious bugs discovered after the final release date, up until the next version of the software is released.

• Read Me (Installation Instructions)
  
• Release Notes R3.14.12.2
  
• Known Problems
  
• Release Checklist
  
• EPICS Application Developer's Guide
  by Marty Kraimer et al.
  [1.5 MB]  
• EPICS R3.14 Channel Access Reference Manual
  by Jeffrey O. Hill and Ralph Lange
  
• Converting R3.13 Applications to R3.14
  by Janet Anderson
  
• Perl 5 Interface to Channel Access
  by Andrew Johnson
  
• Record Reference Manual
  by various. Wikified, please update!
  

Software Download

All versions of EPICS Base are available to the public under an open source license. Development versions can be acquired using Bazaar. The size of the download files can be seen on the Base Download page. The tar files linked below contain source code only (no binaries), and were compressed using gnuzip.

• baseR3.14.12-pre1.tar.gz (8 October 2010)
• baseR3.14.12-pre2.tar.gz (27 October 2010)
• baseR3.14.12-rc1.tar.gz (15 November 2010)
• baseR3.14.12.tar.gz (24 November 2010)
• baseR3.14.12.1-rc1.tar.gz (19 April 2011)
• baseR3.14.12.1.tar.gz (26 April 2011)
• baseR3.14.12.2-pre1.tar.gz (14 November 2011)
• baseR3.14.12.2-rc1.tar.gz (28 November 2011)
• baseR3.14.12.2.tar.gz (12 December 2011)

Related Software

A version of the SNL/Sequencer appropriate for R3.14.12 is available from the links below. Other hardware and software support modules may be found via the hardware support and soft support databases.

• State Notation Compiler/Sequencer (BESSY)
  Use sequencer version 2.0.13 (2.0.14 for Windows) or later with this release of Base. Version 2.0.14 is available for download from this webserver here.