+-
+
Improve fesh (includes closing #34).
+
+
+-
+
A typo in the error message for when
+the schedule is already downloaded was fixed (closes #34). Thanks to
+Morgan Goodrich (KPGO) for reporting this.
+
+-
+
The internal version number was replaced with the FS version.
+
+
+
+-
+
Update example equip.ctl (includes closing #35).
+
+
+-
+
The example DBBC3
+firmware version is now more sensible (closes #35). Thanks to Eskil Varenius (Onsala)
+for reporting this.
+
+-
+
The minimum DBBC3 firmware version required was added in a comment.
+
+
+
+-
+
Fix some error messages (includes closing #43 & #22).
+
+
+-
+
Fixed errors in
+control/fserr.ctl. Errors in some double double-quotes ("")
+lines and some incorrectly reused error codes were fixed (closes
+#43). Thanks to Alexander Neidhardt (Wettzell) for reporting
+these.
+
+-
+
The errors for a tnx command not being found when
+attempting to manipulate its display setting were clarified
+(closes #22). Thanks to Jon Quick (HartRAO) for reporting this.
+
+-
+
Error messages that should refer to the (not yet implemented)
+active_rdbes and active_mk6s commands were corrected to no
+longer incorrectly refer to the rdbe_active and mk5_active
+commands, respectively.
+
+-
+
Obsolete errors for the, no longer used, sw.ctl control file
+were removed.
+
+
+
+-
+
Improve plog.
+
+
+-
+
Use of an environment variable NETRC_DIR was
+added to support not having the .netrc file in the user’s home
+directory was added. Please see plog -h for details on how to
+use this.
+
+-
+
The internal version number was replaced with the FS version.
+
+
+
+-
+
Restore if command. It had accidentally been overlooked in
+beta1. Thanks to Beppe Maccaferri (Medicina) for reporting
+this.
+
+-
+
Update GPL in files. The GPL header was added to the
+holog/MASK/*.m and misc/mk6in* scripts and removed from
+fserver/tests/convey.*.
+
+-
+
Remove usage of system() call to find help files (closes #40 &
+#3). The help command no longer uses the system() to find the
+correct help file to display.
+
+-
+
No longer set /usr2/fs and /usr2/st to be owned by prog. This
+was an error in the misc/fsinstall script.
+
+-
+
Add checking for a procedure or schedule file before attempting to
+open it (closes #45). This change is to avoid accidentally closing
+an active procedure or schedule file if the new one specified in
+the proc=… or schedule=… commands, respectively, does not
+exist (or has incorrect permissions). Previously, if the files
+did not exist (or did not have the correct permission), the old
+file would be closed. Thanks to Jon Quick (HartRAO) for pointing
+out this inconsistency.
+
+
The old behavior was partly a consequence of how the original file
+handling worked on HP-RTE systems, but is not sensible for how the
+SNAP commands should work. Note that this is a non-backward
+compatible change in how the SNAP commands behave.
+Previously supplying a non-existent procedure or schedule file
+name would cause the closure of the corresponding file. Now to
+close an open procedure or schedule without opening a new one, a
+null parameter must be supplied, i.e., proc= or schedule=. As
+before, the latter will not close an open schedule procedure
+library.
+
+-
+
Add more log header lines. Log header lines were added for
+uname() system information and the compile time value of the
+FC environment variable.
+
+-
+
Fix year wrap error message in procedure logging (closes #23).
+This fixed a benign and spurious error message if a log was kept
+open past the end of the year and any procedures that had last
+been logged in the previous year were executed again. Thanks to
+Eskil Varenius (Onsala) and Alexander Neidhardt (Wettzell) for
+reporting this.
+
+-
+
Fix remaining case of a closed procedure library causing a crash if
+there was an attempt to execute a procedure from the library was
+fixed. This case could happen if the schedule that was opened was
+named station, which would lead to the closure of an already
+open schedule procedure library (there cannot be station
+schedule procedure library since station can only be opened
+once).
+
+-
+
Move X resources for helpsh to ~/.Xresources. This allows the
+geometry and other parameter of the FS help display xterm to be
+controlled locally.
+
+-
+
Move unsetting of TMOUT environment variable for oper to
+~/.bashrc in the default files. This allows all interactive
+shells to disable the time-out.
+
+
Additionally, some settings were rearranged in ~/.bashrc to make
+them only apply to interactive shells (this was also done for prog
+and AUID accounts). This change is only relevant for stations using
+FSL10.
+
+-
+
Improve error logging for dbbcn. The name of the program is now
+correctly displayed.
+
+-
+
Improve help page for tpicd. Made it clearer that when in the
+no mode, data_valid=on will only start logging of tpicd data
+when a schedule is running and not-blocked. This behavior was
+inherited from the VGOS branch where accidentally leaving tpicd
+logging RDBE multi-cast data after closing a schedule or halting
+it creates a lot of extra log entries. This is probable beneficial
+for all back-ends.
+
+-
+
Add popen time-out feature. There is a now a -t … time-out
+option. If the command being run has a time-out feature, it is
+generally better to use the command’s feature. See help=sy for
+more details.
+
+-
+
The FS display server is now recommended for
+normal use. This was changed as of the beta2 release.
+
+-
+
Make fsclient honor the -n flag properly (closes #48). This
+eliminates opening “double” windows if fsclient is run with -n
+under an already running fsclient.
+
+-
+
Make fsclient ignore prompt in no-X11 mode (closes #49). If FS
+client is in no-X11 mode, it created a fs.prompt when instructed
+by the server. This change removes that behaviour, though it may
+cause an issue if no other clients exist to dismiss the prompt,
+see issue #49. If this is a problem for anyone’s use case we will
+need a new feature here.
+
+-
+
Add fsserver improvements and log support (includes closing #29 & #25).
+These changes introduce new functionality to fsserver, as well as
+simplifies some use cases.
+
+
+-
+
The first major change is that the server now only needs to use
+one socket when using websockets — address which start with
+ws:// (closes #29). The new default base URL for all fsserver
+streams and control channels is now:
+
+
+
(70 83 are decimal ASCII encoding of F and S.)
+
+
This can be changed by editing FS_SERVER_URL_BASE in
+include/params.h; however, we will likely introduce command-line
+flag and/or environment variable to set this in the future.
+
+
This is should be safe to expose on the network (rather than just
+the loop-back), but users may wish to use an HTTP(S) as a proxy to
+provide some authentication/authorisation.
+
+
This was enabled by factoring out functionality spub into a
+reusable “buffered stream” library, which has been incorporated
+into fsserver. All the behaviour of streams are now managed
+within the fsserver process rather than an external spub
+instance.
+
+-
+
The second major change of this patch is the addition of the FS
+log to the streams available from the server (closes #25).
+(Previously only the “display” was available, which has a reduced
+time-stamp format and filters some output.)
+
+
+
+
FS_SERVER_URL_BASE/log
+
+
+
+
ws://127.0.0.1:7083/log
+
+
+-
+
A third change is that the server now continues running after the
+FS is terminated. This allows clients to detect the FS termination
+and prevents a socket conflict if the FS is terminated and
+restarted in quick succession. The only user visible impact will
+be a slight delay if the FS is restarted quickly after termination
+while the old session is finishing up. This also means, after an
+FS upgrade, it’s important to either shutdown the server
+(fsserver stop) or restart the system.
+
+-
+
Fourth, the server can now accept snap commands to be sent to FS,
+e.g.:
+
+
+
fsserver fs snap "terminate"
+
+
+
This allows clients to interact with the FS directly through
+fsserver rather than needing access to inject_snap.
+
+
No filtering or authorisation is implemented on this command
+channel, so it effectively allows complete command execution
+privileges in the FS context to anyone with access to the socket.
+Note this is also true for inject_snap on a standard system. If
+a station wishes to limit local access they can use
+iptables/nftables, or use the server in UNIX socket mode and use
+file system permissions. Stations that would like to enable remote
+access should implement their own authentication/authorisation
+that suits their needs, e.g. SSH port forwarding or HTTP proxying.
+
+-
+
Finally, this patch also upgrades the included messaging library
+nng to version 1.3.0, which brings with it some performance
+improvements and bug fixes, the most obvious to FS users caused
+some ssub instances in “wait” mode to use a high amount of CPU
+time.
+
+
+
+-
+
Eliminate cls_chk error from inject_snap -w … command when
+an error occurs (partly closes #50). This was caused by
+inject_snap not implementing the new linkage that was added for
+fserr. This is covered in issue #50. To correctly retrieve the
+error message would have required making a new interface to
+fserr or subsuming it into library routine that both ddout
+and inject_snap could use. It was not possible to do either in the
+available time. Instead inject_snap was modified to output the error
+without the message, but pointing out that the message can be
+found in the log and display. Thanks to Dave Horsley (Hobart) for
+reporting this.
+
+-
+
Fix labels in gnplt windows that display the gain curve
+coefficients (closes #51). Previously the labels, when displayed
+were in reverse order. In one window, there were no coefficient
+labels at all. Thanks to Beppe Maccaferri (Medicina) for reporting
+this and testing the solution.
+
+-
+
Improve holog/MASK. The elevation spacing was corrected for the
+example in step (3), using holog.m. Axis titles were added to
+plot_mask.m.
+
+-
+
Fix onoff for the DBBC3 rack (closes #52). A code block from
+9.12.13 in onoff/get_samples.c had been omitted, preventing
+sampling of the TPI values and causing onoff to crash. Thanks to
+Eskil Varenius (Onsala) for reporting that this caused a crash.
+
+-
+
Add support for DBBC3 to if=cont_cal,… (closes #54). Thanks
+to Eskil Varenius (Onsala) for reporting that this was missing.
+
+-
+
Update help pages for onoff and fivpt. Added a section on
+switching between continuous and non-continuous cal. Removed
+if=cont_cal,, in calon/off-nf/fp procedures. Add
+recovery method for misconfigured cal.
+
+-
+
Always check for day 248 problem in setcl (closes #56).
+Previously setcl only checked for the day 248 problem (due to
+use of 32-bit arithmetic in the time handling code), if the time
+model was not computer. In principle, when the model is
+computer there is no need to check for this issue. However,
+since the time is still managed with the same 32-bit arithmetic as
+for the non-computer models, it is still necessary to check.
+Not doing so was an oversight. The result was that there were no
+warnings of an impending 248 day time problem if the model was
+computer. This is now fixed. Thanks to Richard Blaauw (WSRT),
+and subsequently Jon Quick (HartRAO) for reporting this.
+
+-
+
Change the flags for the monX programs in clpgm.ctl from a
+to d. Since they do not depend on the FS, they can continue
+running after the client is closed.
+
+-
+
Generalize the scnch window to cover Mark 5 recorders (closes
+#61). The scnch window was initially developed for Mark 6
+recorders. The form has now been generalized to cover Mark 5
+recorders as wekk
+
+-
+
Update misc/release_model.txt. The release steps were
+clarified.
+
+-
+
Improve update notes.
+
+
+-
+
The -q option was added to
+the pull to suppress the detached HEAD warning.
+
+-
+
A sentence was added to the description of the change to using
+git that it now even more important to not change the contents
+of the /usr2/fs source tree. Changing the source tree will make
+it harder to install bug fixes and updates.
+
+-
+
The paths to the example control files now include the needed
+intermediate directory fs/.
+
+-
+
The sub-steps for updating the control files were corrected
+to properly
+depend or not depend on the old version being 9.12.12.
+
+-
+
A sub-step was added to make using the FS display server the default.
+
+-
+
A sub-step was added for updating the ~/.Xresources file for oper
+and prog.
+
+-
+
A sub-step to update where the TMOUT environment variable is unset
+for stations using FSL10 was added.
+
+-
+
A recommendation was added to sign-up for the go language
+announcements to be informed of security updates if you are
+installing the latest version of go language.
+
+
+
+