Software v2.8.21 released

6 Jan 2026

I’m happy to announce that a new release of the IPbus software suite (i.e. uHAL library and the ControlHub) is now available!

In this release we’ve added functions and structs to uHAL for accessing build/version info, and created new YUM repos, to distribute uHAL builds with more recent GCC releases on EL7, 8 and 9.

Detailed release notes can be found here

You can update from previous v2.8.x releases to this release like so:

sudo yum clean all          # may be necessary
sudo yum groupupdate controlhub uhal

N.B. This release is API and ABI compatible with previous software releases (v2.8.x) - i.e. end-users do NOT have to recompile their C++ source code after updating.

Thanks, The IPbus software team