eCAL 5.10

eCAL 5.10 was released in May 2022. The release notably brings eCAL Core improvements (TCP and Shared Memory)

• Release: May 2022

• End of life: July 2023 (after 14 months)

New features

• Added Dark Mode in all apps (Activate it by View/Theme/Dark!)

  

• eCAL Mon can now display and dock plugins in it’s main window, not only in the reflection Dialog

• Added eCAL Mon plugin for plotting numeric data in a 2D graph

  

• Added full UTF-8 Support for all Apps on Windows

• Added Shared Memory improvements (Multi-Buffering & Zero-Copy)

  (turned off by default to stay compatible! Turn it on to benefit from the improvements!)

  

• Added TCP Transport layer (Improves Network subscriptions of large messages)

Other notable changes

• The ecal.ini now installs a local configuration by default

• Improved eCAL Service API and internals

• Check out the entire 5.10.0 changelog!.

Compatibility table

eCAL 5.10 vs. 5.9

Wire compatibility	eCAL UDP: 100% compatible eCAL TCP: New in 5.10. Prior versions of eCAL will not be able to receive data from TCP publishers. Services: 100% compatible eCAL Shared Memory: Downwards compatible eCAL 5.10 offers an option to use multi-buffering for increased performance. Prior Versions of eCAL cannot receive data from publishers using that feature. By default, the feature is turned off, which makes the Shared memory layer 100% compatible.
API / ABI	API is mostly downward compatible. When using the raw (non-protobuf) Service API, you may incorporate some incompatibilities. Please check this guide on how to upgrade. ABI is not compatible
Tools	Rec: Downwards compatible (Fields have been added to the RPC API) Sys: 100% compatible Measurements: 100% compatible

Where to download

• Windows: Head to the Download Archive and pick your version from there!

• Ubuntu: Install eCAL from our PPA with apt-get (or pick a Version from the download archive as well)