eCAL 5.13.0

• Release Date: 2024-04-25

• GitHub Release Page: eclipse-ecal/ecal

Changelog

# Highlights

- New eCAL Services protocol. The protocol fixes incomplete-message-issues of the previous version.
- Qt6 compatibility: Official Windows builds will now use Qt 6 and thus now properly scale on HDPI screens.

# Changelog

## Core:
- Completely reworked eCAL the eCAL Service implementation (#1072)
    - Introduced a new protocol version (v1) that fixes incomplete-message-issues of the previous version
    - The Client & Server exchange their supported protocol versions to provide downwards compatibility
    - A server can handle multiple clients with different protocol version.
    - A client can be connected to multiple server with different protocol versions.
- Fixed receive timeout (10 ms) in CSampleReceiver::Receive replaced by function parameter (#1262)
- Fixed a bug that caused eCAL to show network nodes even when configured in local mode (#1261)
- Fixed deterministic-random-number bug that in theory could have caused corrupt fragmented eCAL UDP traffic (#1270)
- Various bugfixes, code cleanup and refactoring (#1171, #1248, #1253, #1264, #1265, #1266, #1269, #1271, #1313, #1373, #1539)
- Preparation for eCAL 6: marked diverse API functions as deprecated (#1399)(#1414)

## All GUI Apps (Mon, Rec, Play, Launcher)
- Made eCAL compatible with Qt6 (#1315)

## eCAL Monitor:
- Added eCAL and Qt runtime and compile-time versions to the "about" dialog (#1492)

## Samples:
- Added new sample: ecal_perftool (#1241)

## MMA:
- General improvements and corrections of the Linux part (#1284, #1372)

## Measurement:
- Introduced new API (currently marked as experimental, as it may change in the future) (#1307)
- Various code cleanup and refactoring (#1235)

## Language Bindings
### Raw C-binding:
- Add missing eCAL core functions (ecal_is_initialized, ecal_set_unit_name, ecal_getversion_components) (#1300)

### Python binding:
- Add missing eCAL core functions (is_initialized, set_unit_name, getversion_components) (#1300)
- Added draft for Measurement Writer. The API may change in the future. (#1337)

## Build
### Submodules:
- Updated fineftp-server to 1.4.2 (#1408)
- Updated HDF5 to HDF5 1.10.11 (#1274)
- Updated spdlog to 1.12.0 (#1275)
- Updated tcp_pubsub to 1.0.5 (#1484)
- Updated udpcap (#1551)
- Build QWT static by default for all os and builds (#1406)

### CMake:
- Introduced project configuration and build with CMakePresets.json (#1380)

## Libraries:
- Added QNX and default OS to EcalParser (#1430)

## Documentation:
- Preparation for eCAL 6: added deprecation documentation (#1443, #1464, #1468)
- Updated book theme to 1.1.2 (#1455)
- Downgrade empy from 4.0 due to incompatibility to 3.3.4 (#1461)
- Dark mode improvement for Sphinx Tabs (#1463)
- Page footer fix (#1467)
- Downgrade Sphinx version to <7.3 (#1543)

_eCAL 5.13.0 is patch-level equivalent to eCAL 5.12.5_

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