Release Notes

This page contains notes on the current release of ska-low-csp. Details of what has changed since the last release can be found in the Changelog.

Compatible version information

This release of ska-low-csp was tested successfully in combination with the following versions:

Name	Version
ska-low-cbf-tango-cnic Helm Chart	0.3.0
LOW-CBF CNIC firmware	0.1.11
LOW-CBF Correlator firmware	0.0.5
ska-low-cbf-p4	0.5.6

SKA Telescope Model JSON schema compatibility

This release of ska-low-csp is compatible with the following schemas from the SKA Telescope Model:

Schema	Version
ska-low-csp-assignresources	3.0
ska-low-csp-configure	3.1
ska-low-csp-scan	2.0
ska-low-csp-releaseresources	3.0

Jupyter Notebooks

Accompanying this release of ska-low-csp is a set of Jupyter Notebooks that demonstrate several pieces of functionality. These notebooks can be found at the notebooks directory in our GitLab repository:aa05.

Known issues

The following known issues from the previous release have not yet been fixed:

Issue	Description
SKB-259	LowCbfProcessor TANGO devices do not support health monitoring when no personality is loaded

Additionally, the following issues have been found in this release:

Issue	Description
SKB-316	LowCbfTangoSoftware LOW-CBF components still configuring after subarray reports obsState READY
SKB-317	LowCbfTangoSoftware LowCbfSubarray with no processors assigned reports healthState UNKNOWN
SKB-359	LowCbf Duplicate timestamps noticed in LOW CBF correlator output
SKB-360	LowCbf CNIC takes long to write PCAP files to disk

Warnings and errors related to PST and PSS

As with the previous release, the logs of some of the LOW-CSP sub-systems may contain errors and/or warnings related to PSS and PST. These can be safely ignored, as both PSS and PST are currently not included in ska-low-csp.