V8.1.0

V8.1.0 Monday 11 May 2026


Minor Updates:

• Redesigned dashboard with a new "What's New" changelog panel
• MobileDemo1 / MobileDemo2 page redesigns
• New Test3D experimental 3D demo with drag-to-rotate that writes back to the rotation PVs
• Atom One Dark theme; softer Light theme AppBar
• Gauge restyled — rounded arc edges, alarm-aware accent colour, curved tick labels, and a softer needle
• Rounded outer corners on ProgressBar and Tank
• ARIA value semantics on ProgressBar, Tank, and Gauge for accessibility and automated testing
• BaseComponents storybook docs uplift across all 24 components
• New storybook-driven integration test suite (Playwright via test-runner) with PV roundtrip + display assertions

V8.0.0

Changelog

V8.0.0


Major Updates:

• Updated base OS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for backend containers
• Migrated Python package management to UV
• epicsbase is now the foundational layer for all backend containers
• Docker Compose Bake support for 2-3x faster builds
• Requires Docker V28.1.1+

Breaking Changes:

• See the migration guide to migrate from V7.x.x to V8.0.0

V7.0.0

V7.0.0 Tuesday 16 September 2025


Major Updates:

• Updated to Updated to MUI V7
• Updated to the latest Node LTS 22.19.0
• Package updates to frontend modules
• Removed legacy MUI styling

V6.1.0

Changelog

V6.1.0 Monday 17 February 2025


Minor Updates:

• Updated to React 19
• Updated to the latest Node LTS 22.14.0
• Package updates to frontend modules
• Updated to MongoDB 8.0.4
• Migrate to Poetry 2.0.1
• Package updates to the backend modules
• Update to Nginx 1.27.4

V6.0.1

V6.0.1 Monday 20 January 2025


Minor Updates:

• Fix installation failure due to Poetry 2.x (quick fix)

V6.0.0

V6.0.0 Monday 25 November 2024


Major Updates:

• Updated to the MUI 6
• Moved from npm to pnpm package manager
• Updated to MongoDB 8.0.3
• Speed improvements to the GraphY component
• Speed improvements to the Area Detector Appliance

Minor Updates:

• Package updates to the frontend modules
• Updated to the latest Node LTS 22.11.0
• Updated to Python 3.12.7
• Updated to PyEpics 3.5.7
• Package updates to the backend modules

V5.2.1

V5.2.1 Wednesday 17 July 2024


Minor Updates:

• Package updates to the frontend modules
• Updated to the latest Node LTS 20.15.1
• Updated to Python 3.12.4
• Package updates to the backend modules
• Minor Bug fix Toggle Button component

V5.2.0

V5.2.0 Thursday 15 May 2024


Minor Updates:

• Update to React 18.3.2
• Conversion of all base and system components to Typescript, and function default parameters, due to React deprecation of defaultProps
• Package updates to the frontend modules
• Updated to the latest Node LTS 20.13.1
• Updates to the documentation

Deprecation warning:

• React 19.0.0 will deprecate the use of defaultProps, please use the default value in the function signature instead. See here for more information. The proptypes package will also be removed in the release 6.0.0 of RAS.

V5.1.0

V5.1.0 Thursday 25 April 2024 Minor Updates:

• Package updates to Backend modules
• Updated to Python 3.12.3
• Package updates to all Node modules
• Updated to the latest Node LTS 20.12.2
• Updates to the documentation

V5.0.1

V5.0.1 Friday 08 March 2024 Minor Updates:

• Package updates to Backend modules
• Updated to Epics 7.0.8 and Python 3.12.2
• Package updates to all Node modules
• Updated to the latest Node LTS 20.11.1
• Minor Bug fix to EPICS socketIO connections, PR#128