Release Group

A release group describes those instruments we would release together. An instruments release group is shown in the main instrument table.

There are two main Release Groups. Group A will have a January IBEX deploy as standard, group B will get deployed to in August. These will be the general updates to make sure that code is kept up to date on instruments, benefits are available to all, and support can be maintained more easily.

If there are items that need to be added to instruments at other times, or if there is a fix that an instrument needs then these can be deployed to with the group they are not normally in, or between main deployments as agreed between instrument scientists and the experiment controls group. Smaller changes or additions will be more easily patched in this scenario as well.

Release Groups - Summary

Group A (January / Winter)

• Engineering and Imaging
• Reflectometry
• SANS
• Crystallography
• CRYOLAB and other laboratory Systems

Group B (August / Summer)

• Industrial and Business
• Muons
• Molecular Spectroscopy
• Excitations
• Disordered Materials
• Support Systems (e.g. sample environment systems)

Release Groups - Detailed (Including those instruments not yet migrated)

Group A	Group B
IMAT	CHIPIR
IMAT-UCBDETECT (32-bit)	ARGUS
ENGINX	CHRONUS
ENGINX_SETUP	EMU
ENGINX-STRESS1 (32 bit)	HIFI
CRISP	MUSR
INTER	MUONFE
OFFSPEC	RIKENFE
POLREF	HIFI-CRYOMAG
SURF	MUX
LARMOR	OSIRIS
LOQ	IRIS
SANS2D	IRIS_SETUP
ZOOM	TOSCA
GEM	VESUVIO
HRPD	ALF
HRPD_SETUP	LET
INES	MAPS
PEARL	MARI
PEARL_SETUP	MERLIN
POLARIS	NIMROD
SXD	SANDALS
WISH	SELAB
WISH_SETUP	SELAB2
EMMA	SOFTMAT
CRYOLAB_R55	DCLAB
CRYOLAB_R80	DETMON
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