Eclipse eCAL (enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer) 5.13.0

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