Dear all,
The first pre-release candidate of the next "current" series
release, EPICS Base 3.15.4-pre1, has been tagged and prepared for
download. [1]
This time, we urgently need your help with beta testing.
The 3.15 feature "Allow IOC to bind to a subset of the existing
network interfaces" required some noticeable changes in the
Channel Access server on the IOC.
Starting with 3.15.4, these changes will apply to every single
IOC, on every platform and every target architecture. This is a
critical part of any EPICS system.
We thoroughly tested the changes on the main architectures:
Linux, Windows, vxWorks and RTEMS. However, we don't have the
necessary access, experience and time to check all other
platforms. That's why we need your help.
The EPICSwiki contains a page with a test plan:
https://wiki-ext.aps.anl.gov/epics/index.php/RSRV_Configuration_Test_Plan
Please download and build 3.15.4-pre1, fire up the test IOC, and
run the 6 different tests described on the Wiki page. This will
probably take less than an hour.
Report any findings as soon as possible, so that we can fix issues
before 3.15.4 gets released.
The less common your target platform, the more important is your
help.
Next step in the release process is release candidate 1, planned
to be bundled and published on Friday the 13th. (Seriously: two
weeks from now.)
Thanks a lot for your help!
~Ralph
[1] https://launchpad.net/epics-base/3.15/3.15.4