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eCAL 5.9
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eCAL 5.9 was released in August 2021.
The release notably contains the eCAL Rec command line Application.

- **Release**: August 2021
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- **End of life**: December 2022 (After 16 months)

New features
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- An awesome **ecal_rec command line** application, that let's you record data from command line and remote-control other eCAL recorders!

- **Async Services** (Some technical stuff deep inside the core that is needed by rmw_ecal. So this is the version you want to use when combining ROS2 and eCAL)

- **Great improvements** in eCAL Rec GUI, eCAL Sys GUI and eCAL Mon CLI

- Check out the `entire 5.9.0 changelog <https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal/releases/tag/v5.9.0>`_!.


Compatibility table
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.. include:: compatibility_table.txt

Where to download
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- |fa-windows| Windows: Head to the :ref:`Download Archive <download_archive>` and pick your version from there!
- |fa-ubuntu| Ubuntu: Install eCAL from :ref:`our PPA <getting_started_setup_ubuntu_ppa>` with ``apt-get`` *(or pick a Version from the download archive as well)*