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Changes merged into master but not in an official release yet.

See here for which version of IBEX your instrument is on, including any hotfixes.

Highlights and Breaking Changes

Ticket Type Description
#8415 Minor g.load_script will now apply argument type-checking, via pyright, by default. This means that some errors which would previously have been runtime errors will now be caught during the g.load_script call. See Error Checking Troubleshooting for more details. Also adds type hinting to public genie-python API functions.
#8381 Minor The genie_python library has been split out into a pip-installable package. There are no direct user-facing changes to genie_python as a result of this change, but it is now possible to depend on genie_python in downstream libraries and to install the genie_python library into environments other than IBEX via pip.

Instrument Specific Changes

Instrument Ticket Type Change
CHIPIR Ticket6217 Minor Added OPI support for CHIPIR Filter Set
CHIPIR Ticket6216 Minor Added device screen for CHIPIR XYZ table
Muons Ticket6232 Minor Added muon tpar file text editor/viewer

Devices

Newly supported devices

Ticket Device Notes
#8502 Danfysik model 8500 Use WA command rather than DA 0 as per equipment safety note from Danfysik.
#6085 Thorlabs FW102C Six position filter wheel controller
#8400 Group3 Hall probe Hall probe used by zero-field system on HIFI

Removed devices

Ticket Device Notes
inst_servers#400 Collision Avoidance Monitor Remove the collision avoidance monitor.

Modified devices

Ticket Type Device Change
#8160 minor Beckhoff/TwinCAT Allow 2 instances of the TC IOC, for portable beckhoffs
#8104 minor PACE5000 Various PACE5000 snags - set units to bar, slew mode to lin, display source pressure, fix vent status
#8218 minor GALIL allow COM in GALILADDR macro
#7677 minor Tektronix AFG3XXX Channel 1 and 2 are configurable in IOC macros, by default both are enabled just like so far.
#8248 minor Lakeshore 340 Lakeshore no longer sets excitiation threshold with potentially invalid values on startup.
#6854 major Beckhoff/TwinCAT Remove old CRISP course jaw tcioc motor record code
#8175 minor needlevalve Add macro to govern wriet mode toggle.
#8262 minor Keithley 2400 Add input fields for compliance voltage and current.
#8284 minor McLennan Add macro to set access group of JVEL, HLM, LLM to allow setting of those fields without restart of IOC
#8322 minor HVCAEN Fix issue with write records not getting created
#8253 minor McLennan Make paramters last a powercycle. Parameters are now saved on homing of device
#8335 minor Beckhoff/TwinCAT Fix issue with table of motors advanced view with energised icon not working
#8310 minor Eurotherm Fix issue where disconnected/missing Eurotherm causes other Eurotherms to fail to be read
#8427 Minor Motion controllers The settings for motor controllers (Galil, Beckhoff, Mclennan, Linmot, SMC100, SM300) have been moved from c:\instrument\settings\config\<instrument>\configurations\<motor_type> to c:\instrument\apps\epics\support\motorExtensions\master\settings\<instrument>\<motor_type>. This does not affect settings for motionSetpoints, which remain in the configurations directory. Settings have been migrated.
Ticket8504 Motors Minor Fix home button showing as disconnected for aliased axes ie. sample changer axes
Ticket8516 Lindy IPower Switch Minor Add 4 more LNDYISW IOCs
ISISComputingGroup/EPICS-Tektronix_AFG3XXX#4 Tektronix AFG3XXX Minor Add ramp symmetry functionality

Reflectometry IOC

Ticket Type Change

IBEX Client

Configurations

Ticket Type Change

Script Generator

Ticket Type Change

Other

Ticket Type Change
#8438 minor Added Archiver Appliance container implementation and corresponding container gateway in start_gateways.bat
#8480 minor Added check for repository permissions in repository checks
#8181 Minor Added purge functioanlity (buttons, LEDs, etc) to PEARLPC OPI

Python

genie_python

Ticket Type Change
genie python#8501 minor Added optional parameter to wait_for_runstate() to be in agreement with genie_simulate_impl.wait_for_runstate() on the number of positional parameters
#8409 Minor Add commands to quickly read and sum event mode spectrum data.
#8381 Minor The back-end mechanism for sending sms/email/slack alerts via g.send_sms and g.send_email was updated to share a mechanism with other IBEX alerting mechanisms. These functions will no longer work on machines outside the ISIS network, or on IBEX installations which have not been configured to send alerts (all instrument machines have been configured to send alerts).

Other python libraries

Ticket Type Change
#8453 Patch Build and execute all python-epics wrappers against epicscorelibs-provided libraries. No user-facing change.
ibex_bluesky_core#15 Minor Make ibex_bluesky_core available as a dependency, and add automated & manual system tests for bluesky.
#8381 Patch Python bindings to the Open Dynamics Engine (pyode) were removed. A deprecated version of pyreadline bindings were removed.

InstrumentScripts

Ticket Type Change

Bluesky

Ticket Type Change
ibex_bluesky_core#10 Minor Add block read & write functionality - this allows using an arbitrary block as either a "motor" or "detector" in a scan.
bluesky#8 Minor Expose & document bluesky's plotting functionality.
bluesky#21 Minor Generate & publish uncertainties from DAE Counts data
ibex_bluesky_core#19 Major Introduces fitting for scans in a user friendly way with dynamic guessing functions & new fitting models.

Other

Ticket Type Change
#8438 minor Containerised Archiver Appliance and associated new EPICS gateway for local containers

Internal changes

Ticket Type Change
#8437 Patch Create a network independant Python venv

Change Types:

  • Major - Backward compatible breaking change
  • Minor - Change in API/functionality
  • Patch - Bug fix no change in functionality

Dependencies

Server dependencies

what version where last updated/checked
MySQL 8.4.2 ibex_install_utils 10/2024
Make 4.4 utils_win32 11/2023
ActiveMQ 5.18.3 ISIS\ActiveMQ 12/2023
Nicos 23 ScriptServer 11/2023
Cygwin 3.4.9 ICP_Binaries 12/2023
MySql-connector J 8.4.0 IOCLogServer 10/2024

GUI Dependencies

Dependency Version last updated/checked
Gson 2.11 10/2024
Guava 33.3.1 10/2024
MySql-connector J 8.4.0 10/2024
commons-codec 1.17.1 10/2024
Maven 3.9.5 11/2023
ActiveMQ (different to server version) 5.18.6 10/2024
Nicos 23 11/2023
Jakarta Activation API 2.1.2 10/2024
Jakarta Mail API 2.1.3 10/2024
Jakarta XML Binding API 4.0.1 10/2024
JavaX Activation 1.1.1 10/2024
joda time 2.13 10/2024
py4j 0.10.9.7 10/2024
log4j 2.24 10/2024
JAXB 3.0.2 10/2024
Tyrus 2.2.0 10/2024
JacORB OMG API 3.9 10/2024
Mockito Core 5.14.0 10/2024
JeroMQ 0.6.0 10/2024
Nebula 3.0.0 10/2024
CS-Studio 12/2023 12/2023
Pydev 11.0.3 12/2023
Eclipse 2024-09 04/2024
Eclipse Updates 4.33 10/2024

genie_python Dependencies

Dependency Version last updated/checked
Python 3.11.9 10/2024
ode 0.16.4 10/2024
Lewis git 10/2024
matplotlib 3.9.2 10/2024