eCAL v5.7.6

Changes

• Core:
  • Now supporting NPCAP 1.10 (Windows only)

eCAL v5.8.1

Changes

• Sys:
  • Fixed crash on Ubuntu (#168)

eCAL v5.8.0

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Changes

• Build:

  • Ubuntu builds now install in proper multiarch lib dirs
  • Fixed -dirty tag on Windows builds
  • Fixed many cmake warnings
  • Added .desktop files, so GUI applications now show up in the Ubuntu App menu

• Core:

  • Changed path of ecal.ini on Linux (/etc/ecal/ecal.ini) and Windows (C:\ProgramData\eCAL\ecal.ini)

• Mon:

  • Plugins can be loaded from multiarch lib dirs on Linux

• Rec:

  • Addons can be loaded from multiarch lib dirs on Linux

• Play:

  • Added Hotkeys for loading and saving a channel mapping

• Sys:

  • eCAL Sys added
  • MMA (Machine Monitoring Application) added
  • eCAL Sys client application is now ecal_sys_client
  • eCAL Sys now evaluates eCAL Parser functions
  • Tasks are sorted by ID before saving
  • eCAL Sys CLI:
    • added interactive mode
  • eCAL Sys GUI:
    • MMA Panel shows the state of ecal_sys_clients
    • Panels can be closed and un-docked

eCAL v5.7.5

Changes

• Core:
  • Fixed handling of empty parameters on Linux (GetProcessParameters)
  • Fixed GetProcessParameters on macOS

eCAL v5.7.4

Changes

• Core:

  • Fixed zombie processes and a deadlock that could occur when starting processes on Linux
  • Fixed shared memory names on Posix-style systems (for QNX support)
  • Fixed GetProcessParameters on Linux

• Rec:

  • Fixed Upload bug (by updating fineFTP to 1.0.6)

eCAL v5.7.3

Attention for Windows Users:

The Setup has changed. Please uninstall old eCAL Versions before installing this release.

Changes

• common:

  • Windows setup is now created by Innosetup
    • Setup includes Protobuf (#77)
    • Setup includes Debug binaries (#82)
  • Documentation improved (#65)
  • GitHub actions extended to
    • build Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 artefacts
    • build Windows setup with NPCAP support (#87)
    • build documentation (#76)

• core:

  • bugfix in iceoryx shm interface (#92)

eCAL v5.7.2

eCAL v5.7.2

• github actions introduced
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (stable)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 + Iceoryx (stable)
  • Windows Server 2019 (stable)
  • MacOS Catalina 10.15 (experimental)
• iceoryx shared memory layer support updated to 0.17.0
• capnproto message protocol support updated to 0.8.0

eCAL v5.7.1

eCAL v5.7.1:

• common:
  • static code analysis fixes
  • cmake fix for ecal unit tests
• apps:
  • ecal recorder
    • recording of none alphanumeric topic names fixed
    • delete measurements after upload
    • retry failed uploads
    • fixed crash on Windows 7
    • preparations for ROS2 middleware (rmw_ecal) layer done

eCAL v5.6.0

eCAL v5.6.0:

• thirdparty:
  • new dependencies (mainly required by the new ecal recorder)
    • curl
    • fineftp-server
    • hdf5
    • libssh2
    • tinyxml2
    • zlib
• core:
  • bypass local firewalls or vpn by broadcasting monitoring on local host
• apps:
  • ecal recorder
    • major redesign to support new features like ..
    • measurement history
    • delete measurements
    • add comments to measurements
    • further information about connected recorder clients
    • save configuration
    • upload (merge) distributed measurements to the host machine
    • upload (merge) distributed to any custom FTP server
    • rpc interface to remote-control the recorder GUI
    • warn in case of faulty configuration
    • improved command line interface
    • addon support to integrate third party recording clients
  • ecal player
    • edit labels

eCAL v5.5.5

eCAL v5.5.5:

• documenation:
  • CMake options documentation improved
  • Npcap section installation and usage added
  • instruction how to build the documenation added
• common:
  • CMakeLists.txt files moved outside source folders
• thirdparty:
  • protobuf updated to 3.11.4
  • asio updated to 1.14.0
• core:
  • MacOS port prepared
• language bindings
  • CSharp JSONProtobufSubscriber added
  • CSharp protobuf publisher / subscriber API added
• apps
  • monitor application renamed from mon to mon_gui