v2.9.0

Release of Broccoli belstar v2.9.0

New Features

• [hwl]: New hardware layer module for real-time communication with distributed devices
• [memory]: Added ThreadSafeData template for storing protected data with support for guarded locks
• [core]:
  • Adds EnumerableState as an extendable replacement for typed enums.
  • Adds CycleTimer to time events in fixed sample-time loops
  • Adds Nameable for objects with a name
  • Adds utils module with template helpers for implicit construction
  • utils: Added reverse_memcpy function

Bug Fixes

• [io]: PNMFileData: whitespaces now also count as characters (used to maintain maximum column count in ASCII mode)