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During this time it has been continually developed to meet the needs of production, research, and development sections.
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- New features in version 5 will need to be validated by the Production section.
To minimize the maintenance burden, unused features may be removed. - It provides python 2.7 and Python3 apiAPI, to ease the testing process.
There is no change in the python API, other than the addition of new features - The 4.X.X gui GUI is not interoperable with version 5 and vice versa.
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- ecFlow 4.X.X series relied on boost serialisation for client-server communication,
which meant sticking with a single version of boost, to maintain compatibility between versions.
The ability to extend existing classes over the client/server divide was very limited - ecFlow 5 has dropped the dependency for boost in the client/server comms , and now uses JSON.
This means that future version versions of ecflow 5 can use different boost libs. The latency during the client/server communication has been been improved.
There was a requirement to use the older compilers to support RPM creation, this has been dropped. Ecflow 5 requires a minimum of c++14
We now use the newer c++ compilers and features, resulting in improved performance.