From: B. Gustafsson
                                                           Date: 16/12/05


             VLT-SW-JAN2006 - RELEASE NOTES FOR LCU COMMON SOFTWARE
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	VxWorks: For Linux and SUN there is a new VxWorks version, 5.5. HP stays with
                 VxWorks 5.4. On Linux there is only support for VxWorks 5.5 cross 
                 compiler, but no Tornado tools are available on Linux (like GDB,
                 WindShell, WindView etc.).

	Drivers: aio:  Corrected binary read function

                 acro: Fixed bug in pulse bit function

		 tim:  Modified handling of UTC and PER_UTC count modes

                 ampl: Corrected reading of backplane address

                 canio: With this release, canlib is replaced with the ESD CANOpen 
                        manager and slave software package (canstack).  A configuration 
                        file (canstack.xml) must be created, that describes the CAN 
                        network specific for the project. CANOpen nodes can be configured 
                        with or without configuration files (DCF files).
                        Canstack is delivered in binary format for vxWorks 5.4. and 5.5.,
                        but NOT available for 68k CPUs.
                        "CANIO" is now based upon CANSTACK.
                        Please see VLT-MAN-ESO-17210-2806, revision 1.2. for a description 
                        of the new features.
                        Several stability problems have been solved (VLTSW20040026, 
                        VLTSW20040073), the performance is increased (VLTSW20040288), and 
                        bugs were removed (VLTSW20050211, VLTSW20030493, VLTSW20050172).

                 mendrv: this is a new driver for the MEN digital and analog I/O boards
                         replacing the obsolete Acromag digital I/O board (acro driver) 
                         and the VMIC analog I/O board (aio driver).

	lcc3: Enable tracing of events
              Fixed problem with large databases, SPR20040157
              Added option to disable reading of the physical signal when reading a 
              database attribute of that signal, SPR20050048
              Fixed database access of attributes with spaces in the name, SPR20050073
              Fixed problem with crash when automatic logging of signals and database
              accesses, SPR20050026
              Integration of mendrv.
              Correction of analog read raw value function.
              Fixed problem of crash when rebooting workstation.
              

        Motor Library: Some problems solved (VLTSW20050144, VLTSW00980271, VLTSW20050168,
                       VLTSW20050220, VLTSW20050027, VLTSW20050304).


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