New Features as of version 1.5.2

  Sept. 2014

  Top-Level

   * Updated some more documentation for NumPy
   * Updated Makefiles to work with ARM Linux
   * Fixed some XML processing with & in attributes
   * Fixed problem when MidasServer shuts down
   * Added templatized thread-safe, Circular Queue class
   * Added a bunch of new primitives for X-Midas for Tab conversions
   * Added seriallib.py (for converting between Windows INI files and dicts)

  Details:

   * Updates so PicklingTools will build on ARM with Ubuntu Linux
      * Need unistd.h in sharedmem_test.cc, shmboot.cc
      * Line 385 and 386 of xmldump_test.cc, change s to s1

   * Added serialib.py to Python area
      * Updated documentation
      * Allows conversions between Windows INI files and Python
        dictionaries

   * Bug in handling of & in xmlloader.cc, .py:
      * Any special escape sequence wasn't recognized in attributes
      * Added xmlload_ex.py for another example

   * Updated OpenContainers to 1.7.8:
     * Added occqts.h: A templatized version of occq.h, so you can
       have a synchronized (threadsafe) circular queue of any type
       (rather than just Vals from occq.h).
     * Updated occq.h to have an empty() method.
     * Made it so once an OCThread is started, can't keep creating threads

   * Updated MidasServer (C++) so shutsdown correctly even when not started.

   * X-Midas:
     * Added keywords2tab primitive (and explain page): allows converting
       between keywords in files to Python dicts (Tab) and vice-verse
     * Added tab2xml primitive (and explain page):  allows converting
       between tabs and XML (as an X-Midas primitive)
     * Updated commands.cfg/primitives.cfg
     * Updated tab2opal to handle more cases back and forth

   * Doc update
     * Updates so that NumPy support is more prevelant throughout
     * Clarified many points in usersguide, updated XML conversion guide,
       added serialib