Release 5.0.0 (2022/08/11)

• PvaMirrorServer enhancements:
  • optimized structure copy on processing
  • added ability to specify source server queue size
  • added ability to retrieve mirror record statistics
• Channel enhancements:
  • added monitoring methods that push PV updates into the
    PvObject queue and allow python processing to be done elsewhere
  • added ability to retrieve channel monitor statistics
• PvTimeStamp enhancements:
  • added constructor from and conversion to float
  • added python properties for all fields
• NtNdArray enhancements:
  • updated structure IDs for NtAttribute
  • added support for pickling NtNdArray objects
• NtTable enhancements:
  • updated structure IDs
• PvObject enhancements:
  • simplified handling of unions
• Area Detector Simulator enhancements:
  • option to generate frames with different data types and in the specified
    ranges
  • option to use numpy memory map for loading input files
  • option to notify channel access PV when server starts
• added python HPC Streaming Framework for processing data produced at
  high rates using stream consumers and stream collectors (see the
  framework documentation); the frameworks requires
  python >= 3.7; new command line utilities:
  • pvapy-hpc-consumer
  • pvapy-hpc-collector
• conda/pip package dependencies:
  • EPICS BASE = 7.0.6.1.C2.3
  • BOOST = 1.78.0
  • NUMPY >= 1.22 (for python >= 3.8); < 1.21 (for python < 3.8)