News: USV, frozen screen, macrogui, change in sardana macros interface, general hooks, nxsreader

• 'USV trouble' at P02: so far it is unclear whether the USV caused or sufffered from the incident happening at P02, Saturday. Afterwards the USV was in an unprecedented fault state.

  The general procedure is to exchange the batteries after 3 years and do maintenance on the occasion, costs 300 EUR per USV, FS has 45 USVs (40 Petra-3, 5 Flash) in total. Status: all USVs have been tested Nov 2015, conspicious batteries have been exchanged (80 %, incl. P02).

• The Windows key seems to 'unfreeze' the screen (Jan Kotanski)

• The GTK theme has been changed to cleanlooks-phenix, solved at least the entry-widget macrogui bug.

• Sardana v2.0.0 was installed, implying a change in the sardana macros interface which affects macros using parameters of type ParamRepeat as argument.

• nxsreader, a tool to access NeXus files, see Spock manual, Helpers section.

• New API for general hooks, see Spock manual, scans sections.