VLT-SW-2008 - RELEASE NOTES FOR INS COMMON SOFTWARE =================================================== XXXX: From: J. Knudstrup Date: 2007-12-21 No Changes. ICB: From: D. Popovic Date: 2007-12-05 No Changes. BOSS: From: E. Pozna Date: 2007-09-24 VLTSW20070153 - Check format of OCS.CON.RELEASE if found in configuration. Warning is issued if kw does not have standard date format or not present in the configuration. From the next release instrument with wrong OCS.CON.RELEASE configuratiom will not startup. VLTSW20060007 - Reply to ABORT command is sent after last reply from command STOP sent to ICS arrived. VLTSW20070071 - Send error reply to ABORT command if SETUP command is beeing executed. (ABORT and SETUP commands cannot be executed simultaneously.) VLTSW20070148/VLTSW20070134/VLTSW20060232 - Improved ADDFITS command for general use of adding kws to extentions. (bug fixing,handling of minus zero) VLTSW20070118 - Improved error handling in SOS fits file handling. VLTSW20060302/VLTSW20060339 - Improved error stack handling in bossArchiver. VLTSW20060321 - Error handling during configuration of dictionary in bossINTERFACE. VLTSW20070120 - OFF command handling improved, with checking on state LOADED after command execution. Not yet applicable for FIERA (VLTSW20070159) which currently still shuts off instead of going to LOADED state. VLTSW20070113 - Fixed wait command reply string. Improved exposure table handling with updated refresh rate check (ExpoTable full error) Archiver proces startup simplified (to adjust to changes on VLT2008) Fixed memory leak in bossINTERFACE and bossExpoCtrl. Back Incompatibities: --------------------- See VLTSW20070153 above. SLX/OSLX: From: M. Kiekebusch Date: 2007-09-24 VLTSW20070045 - [slx/oslx]: oslxFITS_EXT can now be used if INS_ROOT is not defined. VLTSW20070114 - [slx]: oslxCONFIG::LoadConfigFile fixed coredumps if filename given without extention. VLTSW20070003 - [oslx]: oslxFITS_EXT fixed problem with padded extention names. VLTSW20070009 - [oslx]: oslxFITS_EXT updated documentation of DeleteFitsKeyword. VLTSW20070044 - [oslx]: oslxFITS_DICT_SUPPORT fixed auto adding keywords to include comments when this information is available. VLTSW20070121 - [oslx]: oslxFITS_EXT::MoveToFirstBinaryTable fixed when only two HDU. Back Incompatibities: --------------------- VLTSW20070110 - [oslx]: warning of exceeding BTBL size floods the logmonitor. oslxFITS_EXT class will not warn the user when initial binary table size would be exceeded. Although this should not have an effect in performance, it is up to the user to select the most appropriate approach to reduce possible performance penalties. CFITSIO: From: M. Kiekebusch Date: 2007-09-24 VLTSW20070133 - Integrated official CFITSIO tar file in the CFITSIO module. TPL: From: D. Popovic Date: 2007-09-25 VLTSW20070124 - tplOBS: Addition of WaitAsync and RecvReply methods. VLTSW20060110 - tplUIF: New method stayOnTop. Back Incompatibities: --------------------- VLTSW20060195 (reopen) - tplOBS: method Setup - Default expoId set back to 0 again. New expoId requested with NEW_EXPO parameter, e.g. Setup "-function ..." NEW_EXPO STOO: From: D. Popovic Date: 2007-09-25 No Changes. DXF: From: D. Popovic Date: 2007-09-25 WARNING ------- LCU applications that use dxf should have their stack size set to "normal size without dxf" + (4 * dxfMSG_TRANSFER_SIZE), e.g. 50000 + (4 * dxfMSG_TRANSFER_SIZE) KNOWN BUG --------- If compression is used and the compressed buffer happens to be longer than msgBODYMAXLEN, the transfer will fail saying that wrong compression method was performed. If compression has to be used, use dxf ver. 2.52.1.4. IST: From: D. Popovic Date: 2007-09-25 No Changes. PCO: From: D. Popovic Date: 2007-09-25 No Changes. INSC: From: J. Knudstrup Date: 2007-11-19 VLTSW20060241: inscDetSLcu - the -version option does not accept LAST (fixed by alongino) CTOO: From: J. Knudstrup Date: 2007-11-19 VLTSW20070104: ctooCONFIG: Read() methods (fixed by rschmutz) ___oOo___