History#

The project milestones describe the future plans.

2.0.0#

  • Released 2024-12-19

Notice#

  • Complete overhaul for APS-U era.

Breaking Changes#

  • Proposal ID is now an integer, was previously text. (ESAF ID is integer, as before.)

  • Standardize on the name run instead of cycle as the reference used for the name of an APS operations run period.

  • Includes EPICS PV: record(stringout, "$(P)esaf:run")

New Features#

  • Add search for ESAFs & Proposals using Whoosh package.

  • Add support for direct access to read IS database.

  • Add Server class that chooses between DM or IS interface.

  • Integer timestamp PVs for ESAF start & end and Proposal start, end, & submitted.

  • User can override default DM URL by setting an environment variable.

Maintenance#

  • Add requests to project requirements.

  • Code style enforced by pre-commit.

  • Increased code coverage of unit testing.

  • Moved report and table generation to new Server class.

  • Refactored (and simplified) IOC report table.

  • Relocated functions out of apsbss module.

  • Switch documentation to use pydata sphinx theme.

  • Update to install and run with Python versions 3.9, 3.10, 3.11.

Deprecations#

  • Removed all items marked for deprecation.

1.5.6#

released 2022-03-24

  • add pyyaml to package requirements

1.5.5#

released 2022-01-12

  • install with Python 3.7+

  • main() now found for command-line use

1.5.4#

released 2022-01-05

This package (apsbss) was moved out of apstools release 1.5.4. See the apstools change history for any previous changes to this code base.