The EPICS 7.0.5 release contains a number of bug fixes and new features since 7.0.4.1. The changes and additions may be spread across the different modules, and are described in the appropriate release notes for the sub-modules.
Documentation
The following documents cover EPICS version 7.0.5 and subsequent patch releases. Additional documents can be found in the documentation subdirectory of the distribution source code, and in the html subdirectory that gets created at build-time.
NOTE: These documents may be revised at any time without generation of a new source release. The core-talk and tech-talk mailing lists are probably the best sources of up-to-date information about the 7.0 series.
Release Notes
Other Links
Record Reference Documentation
EPICS Channel Access 4.13.9 Reference Manual
by Jeffrey O. Hill and Ralph Lange
Perl 5 Interface to Channel Access
by Andrew Johnson
msi: Macro Substitution and Include Tool
by Marty Kraimer
Channel Filters
by Andrew Johnson and Ralph Lange
JSON Link Types
by Andrew Johnson
Software Download
All versions of EPICS Base are available to the public under an open source license. Development versions can be checked out of our git repository (detailed instructions to come). The sizes of the download files can be seen on the Base Download page. The compressed tar files linked below contain source code only (no binaries), the [signature] link points to a GPG signature of the tarfile.
- base-7.0.5.tar.gz [signature] (28 Feb 2021)
To checkout the latest source code using git use the git command below, which will include some additional files not in the tarfile. Note that some of the submodules are fetched from LaunchPad, while others are on GitHub:
git clone --recursive -b 7.0 https://git.launchpad.net/epics-base base-7.0 cd base-7.0
Related Software
pvaPy – Python Bindings for the PVA protocol. (API documentation)
MCoreUtils – Utilities for EPICS on Multi-Core Linux
A collection of utilities for running IOCs on multi-core (RT or not) Linux architectures.