2.8.3 - maintenance release

Celebrating 20 years of VDCT !!

Key changes

• Update versions of all dependencies
  (includes security relevant updates of mysql-connector)
• Verification for Java 13 and 16

See also the Release Notes and check out the code changes.

2.8.2 - bugfix release

Key changes

• Bugfix: Consider empty CLASSPATH in wrapper script (#25)
• Fix AWT exception (and GUI side effects) under openjdk / Java 11 (#26)

See also the Release Notes and check out the code changes.

2.8.1 - bugfix release

Key changes

• Bugfix: reading visual data from DB file is broken (#24) (introduced in 2.8.0)

More details in the Release Notes. Check out the code changes.

2.8.0 - improved run scripts, Java 10 support

Key changes

• Add support for unquoted values in database files (by Katy Saintin)
• Enhancement: Rename and greatly improve run scripts (by Luca Cavalli)
• Add support for compilation on Java 10

More details in the Release Notes. Check out the code changes.

2.7.0 - support for EPICS 7 and Base 3.16

Key changes

• Add support for 64bit integer database fields (introduced in Base 3.16)
• Bugfix: handle escaped quotes and backslashes in field values
• Enhancement: use Writer for file output to support UTF-8 character encoding in DB files

More details in the Release Notes. See the code changes.

❗This release is required for use with EPICS Base 3.16 and EPICS 7.

2.6.1280 - update for Base 3.15.4

Key changes

• Resurrect as a Maven project on GitHub, adding CI (CloudBees and Travis)
• Enhancement: read promptgroup (gui_group) choices from DBD file (to support new promptgroups introduced in 3.15.4)

More details in the Release Notes. See the code changes.

❗This release is recommended for use with EPICS Base 3.15.4 and up.

2.6.1279 - bugfix release

Merge pull request #3 from tfors-aps/readme

Added README.md