Version 2.5.0   2025-03-12
- Add support for missing SM control byte in ESI file.
- Added some slaves:
    - Beckhoff EL2634, EL4712, EL4732 and EP(P)5151-0002
    - Baumer EAx580
- Reworked getting task sample period
- Build distribution ZIP file in GitLab CI

Version 2.4.0   2024-08-07
- EtherCAT block inputs and outputs can be swapped to simulate process data.
- Generic slave can now show portnames.

Version 2.3.5   2024-01-24
- Added new command line option -m to merge tasks
- Implemented Simulink's `packNGo` (see README-packngo.md)

Version 2.3.4   2021-11-18
- Move to gitlab
- Ignore PDO data type checking on ports
- Bugfix: Move init_application() before pdserv_prepare(). Required for pdserv_event*()
- Find .c and .h files in ETHERLAB_DIR during compile

Version 2.3.3   2021-04-08
- Fixed bugs in ec_slave3.c

Version 2.3.2   2021-01-06
- Fixed bugs in el36x2

Version 2.3.1   2020-05-02
- Update for Matlab starting with 2018b

Version 2.3.0   2020-01-09
- Requires pdserv-3.2
- See ReleaseNotes.txt for changes to Simulink models
- New improved installation mechanism for Simulink. See README!
- Simulink reference version 2017b
- Global model parameters
- Removed classic call interface to support Simulink after 2013
- SDO values can now be any data type, including floats
  This affects EL3356
- SDO may be specified as a cell array
- added parsing utility for TwinCAT generated XML files
- Incompatable change to PdCom clients is vector interpretation in certain
  cases

Version 2.1:

- Added support for SDO read/write in source files
- Complete redesign of most of the Beckhoff library blocks
- Multithread support
- Improvements and bugfixes concerning library paths
- Completely reworked the compile process
- Implemented overruns; added syslog() iface and some profiling macros.
- Added oversampling slaves
- Reworked DC completely
- Numeric types for PORT.pdo_data_type
- Several bugfixes and improvements

Version 2.0:

- New EtherLab target for PREEMPT-RT using the pdserv library.
- Support for complex data types.

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