New MINOR release 00.08.00

Changes since 00.07.00:

- Necessary updates to work with the latest DeviceAccess version

- Fixed wrong copy constructor of ProcessArray::Buffer - by removing it entirely, since it is not used.

- Improvements to the TypeChangingDirectCastDecorator

New MINOR release 00.07.00

Changes since 00.06.01:

This is an intermediate quick-fix release needed for tests at HZDR/ELBE...

- Write out persistency file every 30 seconds - this is currently a dirty hack and has to be fixed and tested!
- Added TypeChangingDecorator

New PATCH release 00.06.01

Changes since 00.06.00:

- work around for a assertion sometimes failing. might actually be a bug in the llrfctlhzdr server

New MINOR release 00.06.00

Changes since 00.05.01:

Note, this release introduces a slight change in behaviour (necessary to implement the guaranteed order in readAny()): On an overflow of the internal lockfree queue, the oldest element can no longer be discarded. Instead the newest data is kept separately. When reading all data after a queue overflow, one will first get a number of old data elements before finally the latest element is received. Therefore the guarantee that readLatest() always will give us the latest element is still kept.

- PVManager throws if a process variable is not found, instead of returning a null pointer
- Fixes in the build environment
- Made working with latest DeviceAccess version (TransferFuture and NDRegisterAccessor were changed)
- Extended the tets
- Improved performance
- Now use RegisterPath as the name in the inteface, which guanrantees the presence of a leading / at the beginning.
- Removed some deprecated functions
- Removed the stand-alone version of the ProcessArray, since it is not needed and shouldn't be used even for tests (behaviour very different from the real version)
- Renamed IntependentTestCore to ReferenceTestApplication

New PATCH release 00.05.01

Changes since 00.05.00:
- use the full library version for the so version, which includes also the build version

New MINOR release 00.05.00

Changes since 00.04.00:

- allow mixing readAny()/readAsync() with read()/readNonBlocking()/readLatest()
- added support for std::string
- minor improvements to help debugging applications

Known issues:

- Sometimes the notification queue for blocking read() still can run out of futures when mixing various types of read()/readAsync(). It is unclear whether this is actually a bug in the ControlSystemAdapter or in ApplicationCore resp. the application where this problem was observed. As a work-around, only a warning is printed in this case and busy waiting is used until new data has arrived.

New MINOR release 00.04.00

Changes since 00.03.02:

- Implemented new features added recently to DeviceAccess like readAsync() and doReadTransferLatest()
- Added function to obtain a unique ID for a process array
- Implement blocking read
- Some code cleaning

New PATCH release 00.03.02

Changes since 00.03.01:

- fixes in the build environment
- temporary fix for race conditions in one of the tests

New release 00.03.01

Changes since 00.03.00:

- fixed build environment: DeviceAccess library path was neither set when building the tests nor pushed to the downstream projects

New release 00.03.00.
Important note: This release is *not* API compatible with previous versions!

Changes since 00.02.00:

- Unify the API of the ProcessVariables with the DeviceAccess register accessors. The class TransferElement from DeviceAccess is now the common base class.
- Removed the ProcessScalar implementation. Instead ProcessArrays with a single element are used.
- Added support for engineering units and variable descriptions.
- Added optional persistency layer which can be enabled by the middleware-specific implementations if the middleware does not support persistency otherwise (e.g. OPC UA)
- Added ApplicationBase interface on which apllications will be implemented and which is used by the middleware-specific implementations to initialise and start the application.
- Implement copy-on-send for ProcessArrays (issue #5), added sendDestructively() method to allow the more efficient sending without keeping a copy.

New tag 00.02.00

Tagged before API changes for unification with the DeviceAccess library are merged.

Changes since 00.01.00
- Working config for CMake-based projects (based on ProjectTemplate)
- Accessors for ProcessVariables. Don't use them, they will be replaced by the
  accessors in DeviceAccess soon.
- Namespace changed to ChimeraTK
- Unique numbers for process variables to know which one has newer data

New tag 00.01

The very first tag, representing the verison as moved from subversion to github. Except for a C++11 patch, the library itself has not changed since October 2015.