News and Events
Meetings and Other Events
- 2024-06-18EPICS Collaboration Meeting, Fall 2024
The 2024 Fall EPICS Collaboration Meeting will be held at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA from September 16 to 20, 2024, organized by the Spallation Neutron Source.
The meeting website is now available and accepting abstracts and registrations.
- 2024-01-29EPICS Collaboration Meeting, Spring 2024
The 2024 Spring EPICS Collaboration Meeting will be held at Pohang, Korea from April 15 to 18, 2024, organized by Pohang Accelerator Laboratory.
More information is available on the meeting website.
- 2023-09-06EPICS Collaboration Meeting, Fall 2023
There will be a one-day EPICS Collaboration Meeting prior to the ICALEPCS in Cape Town, SA on October 8, 2023. Because of the short format, only a limited number of talks will be scheduled.
More information is available on the meeting website.
- 2023-05-30EPICS Documentathon Summer 2023 at ESS
An EPICS Documentathon will take place in the last week of August (28.Aug.-1.Sept.) at the European Spallation Source. We will spend a week to work on EPICS documentation infrastructure, with some core developers present as mentors.
For practical information please take a look at the event website.
- 2023-02-02EPICS Collaboration Meeting, Spring 2023
The Spring 2023 EPICS Collaboration Meeting will take place from 24-28 April 2023, hosted by Fermilab in Batavia (near Chicago), Illinois, USA.
Registration is open!
More information can be found on the event website. - 2023-02-02EPICS Codeathon March 2023
Registration is open for the Spring 2023 EPICS Codeathon, which will be held in-person (remote participation possible) at Diamond from March 7 to March 10.
There will be a variety of projects for participants to work on, accommodating a range of technical skills and experience.
Check both the meeting website and the Codeathon page for more details.
- 2022-06-17EPICS Collaboration Meeting, Fall 2022
The Fall 2022 EPICS Collaboration Meeting will take place in-person from 21-23 September 2022 (Wed-Fri), hosted by Cosylab and the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 19-20 September are reserved for workshops and working group meetings.
More information is available on the meeting website.
- 2022-03-24EPICS Codeathon May 2022
Registration is now open for the Spring 2022 EPICS Codeathon, which will be held online and in-person at SLAC from May 9 to March 13.
There will be a variety of projects for participants to work on, accommodating a range of technical skills and experience.
Check both the meeting website and the Codeathon page for more details.
- 2021-04-22EPICS Collaboration Meeting Summer 2021
The Spring 2021 EPICS Collaboration Meeting will now take place from 6-9 July 2021, hosted by the Canadian Light Source.
Register at the meeting website.
- 2021-02-15EPICS online Codeathon March 2021
Registration is now open for the EPICS Collaboration online Codeathon and Documentathon, which will be held from March 8 to March 12, 2021.
There will be a variety of projects for participants to work on, accommodating a range of technical skills and experience.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2020-09-04EPICS Collaboration Meeting in October 2020
The 2020 EPICS Collaboration Meeting will be held virtually in the week of 19-23 October 2020, organized by the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2019-11-19EPICS Codeathon 2020
An EPICS Codeathon will be held from February 11-14 2020 (i.e. Tuesday to Friday) at Diamond Light Source in the UK. We will spend 4 days fixing bugs, designing and developing new features and/or writing documentation.
More information is available from the event page; instructions on registering will be published as soon as we get them.
- 2019-09-06EPICS Collaboration Meeting in October 2019
The 2019 EPICS Autumn Collaboration Meeting, will be a one-day workshop on the 5. October, in conjunction with the ICALEPCS 2019 conference, in Brooklyn, New York.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2019-07-24EPICS Documentathon at ESS
An EPICS Documentathon will take place in the first week of September (2.-6.) at the European Spallation Source. We will spend a week to work on improving EPICS documentation, with a number of core developers present as mentors.
For practical information please take a look at the event website.
- 2019-06-21June 2019 Meeting Presentations Available
The presentations of the last Collaboration Meeting (held at ITER from 3-7 June 2019) are available for download: separately through the timetable or as packaged archives.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2019-05-20June 2019 Meeting Book of Abstracts Available
The “Book of Abstracts” for the next EPICS Collaboration Meeting (held at ITER from 3-7 June 2019) is available for download.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2019-04-03June 2019 Meeting Registration and Abstract Submission Open
Registration and abstract submission for the next EPICS Collaboration Meeting (held at ITER from 3-7 June 2019) are now open.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2019-03-14June 2019 Meeting Abstract Submission Open
The abstract submission for the next EPICS Collaboration Meeting (held at ITER from 3-7 June 2019) is now open.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2018-11-16June 2019 Meeting Announced
ITER will host the Spring 2019 EPICS Collaboration Meeting, which will be held from 3-7 June 2019 at the ITER site in Cadarache, 45 km north-east of Aix-en-Provence, France.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2018-07-03November 2018 Meeting Announced
The next EPICS Collaboration Meeting (fall 2018 in the northern hemisphere) will be held from 12-16 November and will be hosted by ANSTO and the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne, Australia.
Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2018-03-23June 2018 Meeting Announced
The June 2018 EPICS Collaboration Meeting will be hosted at the APS by Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Illinois during the week of June 11-15.
Registration opens in April. Check the meeting website for more details.
- 2017-10-05Developers Meetings at ITER
EPICS Core, CS-Studio and areaDetector developers were meeting 03 – 05 October 2017 at ITER for three days of discussion and lively debate
- 2017-08-25New Visual Identity
With the launch of EPICS 7, a new era of development is highlighted by adding a new visual identity and look-and-feel to the EPICS family of software.
- 2016-09-23Spring 2017 Meeting Announced
The spring 2017 meeting will be hosted by the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI)
Software Releases
- 2024-07-01Base 7.0.8.1 Released
Version 7.0.8.1 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2023-12-16Base 7.0.8 Released
Version 7.0.8 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2022-09-08Base 7.0.7 Released
Version 7.0.7 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2021-07-06Base 7.0.6 Released
Version 7.0.6 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2021-06-28Base 3.15.9 Released
Base-3.15.9 of the “stable” release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2021-03-01Base 7.0.5 Released
Base-7.0.5 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2020-08-21Base 7.0.4.1 Released
Base-7.0.4.1 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2019-11-01Base 7.0.3.1 Released
Base-7.0.3.1 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2019-11-01Base 3.15.7 Released
Base-3.15.7 of the “stable” release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2019-07-31Base 7.0.3 Released
Base-7.0.3 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2018-12-17Base 7.0.2 Released
Base-7.0.2 of the EPICS 7 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2018-12-12Base 3.16.2 Released
Base-3.16.2 of the 3.16 release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2018-10-12Base 3.15.6 Released
Base-3.15.6 of the “stable” release series is now available for download.
Please visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. - 2018-09-18Base 3.14.12.8 Released
Base-3.14.12.8 is now available for download. Visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. Documentation may continue to be updated over the next few days.
- 2018-09-15Asyn R4-34 Released
Mark Rivers has released a new version R4-34 of the Asyn driver, available from GitHub at https://github.com/epics-modules/asyn
It contains a number of bug-fixes and improvements; please consult the release notes for details.
- 2017-12-15EPICS 7.0.1.1 released
EPICS 7.0.1.1 is now available for download. Visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. Documentation may continue to be updated over the next few days or even weeks. Note that modules written for earlier EPICS releases may require changes to build and work correctly against EPICS 7.
- 2017-12-15Base 3.14.12.7 released
Base-3.14.12.7 is now available for download. Visit the appropriate release page for details, and be sure to read the Release Notes. Documentation may continue to be updated over the next few days or even weeks.
- 2017-06-02Base R3.16.1 released
Base R3.16.1 is now available to download. Visit the release page for more info.