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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
#8780 Medium Added block level alarm config
#8990 Major/breaking Reworked the built-in Muon TPAR editor to use current.tpar as the user-editable copy of the "master" TPAR files so they can't be overwritten.

Instrument Specific Changes

Instrument Ticket Type Change
MERLIN 8726 MAJOR Added Support for Vacuum PLC via OPCUA
MAPS 9008 MINOR Change to use new Vacuum interface deployed to MERLIN

Devices

Newly supported devices

Ticket Device Notes
8919 Moxa ioLogik E1213 Added Support for new device
5885 QuantumNorthwest NeutronIQ Added support.
#8934 Sefram DAS240 Added support.

Removed devices

Ticket Device Notes
8995 Major Remove ISIS MK2 chopper IOC

Modified devices

Ticket Type Device Change
8979 Minor Galil Update 'new' Galil driver from v3 to v4.
8798 Major Coherent OBIS Laser Remote Support multiple lasers on a single IOC & add support for switching lasers on/off and setting output power. Previous PV names have changed, e.g. CHTOBISR_01:some_pv will now be CHTOBISR_01:1:some_pv (where 1 is the laser number).
TwinCat #4 Patch TC/Beckhoff Send reset just before any moves to clear errors if possible
GUI #1840 Patch Motors Show a warning if motor has been left in SET mode
8688 Minor Eurotherm Added additional Eurotherm attributes.
2196 & 8959 Minor Nanodac Add OPI, fix IOC, add control of "advanced loop".
8955 Patch Mercury ITC Allow Ethernet comms in addition to existing serial comms
8971 Patch Knauer K-6 Increase number of available IOCs from 2 to 4
8969 Minor Keithley 6517B Add set/read "zero check" and current autorange modes
8464 Minor TC/Beckhoff Allow sending a frozen offset to beckhoffs in order to set position
6839 Minor TC/Beckhoff Implement setting auto-energise to controller
8901 Minor OPCUA Support reading MUONFE vacuum values from PLC
8957 Patch Mezei Flipper Add explicit reconnection to device and increase reconnection timeout to improve comms stability.
8992 Minor OPCUA Supports certificate based authentication to PLC
8470 Minor PS300 Support GPIB control of Stanford PS300 series power supplies
8222 Minor Tekronics OSC Add option to use MEASURE functionality

IBEX Client

Configurations

Ticket Type Change
3396 Minor Added a tab to show globals settings in the edit/view configuration screen
8764 Minor Added block level alarm config in Add/Edit Block screen

Other

Ticket Type Change
PR Patch Display Moxas in a predictable order in the Moxa perspective

Python

genie_python

See https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/genie/releases

Bluesky

See https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/ibex_bluesky_core/releases

Internal changes

Ticket Type Change
8445 Minor Change how we set macro default values on ioc's so that it uses the same source of truth as the gui, this will not affect existing configurations
8885 Patch Dependency version updates. No user-facing behaviour changes expected.
8947 Minor Update EPICS SNMP driver and net-snmp support library to latest upstream (1.1.0.6 and 5.9.5.2)
8989 Patch Update dependencies for old galil driver.

Change Types:

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

Dependencies

what version where last updated/checked
MySQL 8.4.9 ibex_install_utils 05/2026
ActiveMQ 5.19.6 ISIS\ActiveMQ 05/2026
MySql-connector J 8.4.0 IOCLogServer 05/2026

GUI Dependencies

Dependency Version last updated/checked
Gson 2.14.0 05/2026
Guava 33.6.0 05/2026
MySql-connector J 8.4.0 05/2026
commons-codec 1.22.0 05/2026
Maven 3.9.15 05/2026
ActiveMQ (different to server version) 5.19.0 05/2026
Jakarta Mail API 2.2.0 05/2026
joda time 2.14.2 05/2026
py4j 0.10.9.9 05/2026
log4j 2.26.0 05/2026
JAXB 4.0.6 05/2026
Tyrus 2.2.2 05/2026
JacORB OMG API 3.9 05/2026
Mockito Core 5.23.0 05/2026
JeroMQ 0.6.0 05/2026
Eclipse 2026-03 05/2026

Uktena dependencies

If you use the libraries below in user code, you should also review the release notes of those libraries.

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mock==5.2.0
mpltoolbox==26.2.0
msgpack==1.2.1
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mysql-connector-python==8.4.0
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parso==0.8.7
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ply==3.11
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pyasyncore==1.0.5
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pydantic_core==2.41.5
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PyQt6_sip==13.12.0
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pytz==2026.3.post1
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