==> DFS COMPONENT NAME:	IPacMan

==> DFS COMPONENT RELEASE NUMBER: 2.6beta1

==> DFS RELEASE TYPE: minor

==> DELIVERED BY: User Support Systems team ON: 16-Jun-03

==> MAIN REASON OF THE DELIVERY: 

    This is a beta OHS 2.5 Release

==> DEADLINE FOR DELIVERY TO USERS: 
    
    18-Nov-2002

==> CONFIGURATION REQUIRED FOR INTEGRATION TESTS:

    Standard test plan

==> LIST AND LOCATION OF SPECIFIC TEST DATA TO BE RETRIEVED AND USED FOR
INTEGRATION TESTS: 

    N/A

==> POINTS ALREADY CHECKED DURING UNIT TESTS:

==> POINTS TO BE CAREFULLY CHECKED DURING INTEGRATION TESTS: 

==> COMPLETE LIST OF ACTION ITEMS/PROBLEMS REPORTS ADDRESSED BY
    THIS RELEASE:


RELEASE NOTES FOR IPacMan 2.6beta1
****************************************

* [2038] NEW: IPs cannot be inserted if summary.idx timestamp
  is not up-to-date.

* [2049] NEW: can now update the IP version of several Runs
  in one go.

* [2237,2239] NEW: Applications and stored procedures can now support
  Observing Run descriptors A-Z.

* [2294] NEW: Added support for ~ (tilde) in configuration files, 
  meaning the user's home directory.

* [2131] NEW: Applications now handle more gracefully database
  connection errors (time-outs, etc.)

* [2109] Fixed bug: ipacman tar/gz install file had wrong name

* [2118] Fixed bug: add "unassigned" to Observing Runs report 
  ipversion options.

* [2196] Fixed bug: in a database browser it was possible to select a
  sort criterion without selecting the corresponding column, leading
  to unexpected result sets.

* [2154] Fixed bug: applications now report an error message if the
  database configuration file is missing.

* [2075] Changed Linux runtime setup

* [2065] Code cleanup: removed Eclipse compilation warnings.

* [2508] Updated SQL documentation (file obrep2-create-tables.sql).

==> LIST AND ISSUE OF UPDATED DOCUMENTS:

    None.

==> ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

    None.

$Id: SEG-RELEASE-NOTES-ipacman,v 1.8 2003/06/16 07:45:07 amchavan Exp $