• We now test against, and package with, Python 3.9.6.

  As a consequence of this we no longer support Windows 7.
  This is due to Python 3.9.x itself not supporting Windows 7.
  The application (both EDMarketConnector.exe and EDMC.exe) will crash on startup due to a missing DLL.

  This should have no other impact on users or plugin developers, other than the latter now being free to use features that were introduced since the Python 3.7 series.

  Developers can check the contents of the .python-version file in the source (it's not distributed with the Windows installer) for the currently used version in a given branch.

Pre-Release 5.1.3-beta1

• Attempt to flush any pending EDSM API data when a Journal Shutdown or Fileheader event is seen. After this the data is dropped. This ensures that, if the user next logs in to a different commander, the data isn't then sent to the wrong EDSM account.

• Ensure a previous Journal file is fully read/drained before starting processing of a new one. In particular this ensures properly seeing the end of a continued Journal file when opening the continuation file.

• Don't force DEBUG level logging to the plain log file if --trace isn't used to force TRACE level logging. This means logging to the plain log file will once more respect the user-set Log Level, as in the Configuration tab of Settings.

  As its name implies, the debug log file will always contain at least DEBUG level logging, or TRACE if forced.

(Plugin) Developers

• New EDMarketConnector option --trace-on ... to control if certain TRACE level logging is used or not. This helps keep the noise down whilst being able to have users activate choice bits of logging to help track down bugs.

  See Contributing.md for details.