Release 3.3.0 (proper)

IMPORTANT

• the current stable release of canmatrix (0.6.0) has bugs; it is necessary to install the latest development release until a new stable release is published

New features

• added support for CAN bus logging measurements
• avoid TXBLOCK, CCBLOCK and SIBLOCK duplication on save
• new stack method creates a new file with all the channels from the given measurements
• append boolean arrays as single bit channels
• handle measurement start time
• use measurement start time when concatenating files
• added pandas export option

Fixes

• fix mat export
• fix matlab compatible names in export
• fix KeyError for ALGEBRAIC channel conversion
• fixes issue #45, #50, #54, #55 and #56
• fix mdf 3 errors in merge, concatenate in case of string channels without samples
• fix for Signal interp if the new axis is empty
• fix export in case of bytearray channels
• fix nested structure composition
• fix error in plot method

Changes

• use XML parsing for comments
• merge renamed to concatenate
• validate file magic header for MDF files
• do not use splitext in .mat export
• validate memory and version arguments used throughout the code base
• added new kargs to export method
• read and transfer event blocks
• move channel conversion and source in channel
• streamline save methods
• remove code duplication in append method
• use channel and group index for structure composition dependencies