#48: UDP Messengers: ability to send and receive messages via UDP, including Multicast group addresses.
Reconnecting TCP messengers now support service discovery using UDP, to aid easy networking.
#52 Remove dependancies on JKI State Machine package and OpenG LabVIEW ZIP Library
#45 Timeout Trigger (new periodic action method)

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Issue 44: Reconnecting TCP Messenger (See "Example Reconnecting TCP Client")
Bug fix: 47 Problem launching "Internal" actors in some cases
New Example of a Worker Pool pattren using Future Tokens

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*new ability to add an "Attachment" to an Outer Envelope (to carry info through a Request-Reply-Continuation pattern) Issue 5
*new QueueStackMessenger to allow immediatly executed "Actions" (Issue 42)
*Issue 38: Dialogs: allow definition of Run-Time Position>Monitor
*Issues 2,34,36,37,39,40,41

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*TCP Messengers with options for Ports (Issues 27 , 33)
-- Reworked TCPMessenger creation API
*TCP Keep alive (Issue 26) to avoid Half-open connections

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*"Startup Parameters" Variant added to "Launch Actor"
*Used to impliment preregistration messages in DEV template (Issue 13: to register for error in "Self: Initialize)
*Fix issue 14: Observer Registry not dropping dead addresses
*Better Error info in Query Timeouts
*Timeout Watchdog, to react to failure of something to happen
*Issue 9: modified way of launching Non-Reentrant Actors to reduce issue
*"Busy" Async Dialog (Beta; off palette)
*Fix issues with Cancellable Observer (Issue 18)
*Timeout countdown in 3-button dialogs

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*Add Async Connect to Remote TCP (see Test Client with Async connection example)
*LabVIEW 2013 or later
*Removed OpenG dependance (except for optional Zlib use in TCP messaging)
*Default Dialog style changes to Flat
*Added Example from YouTube Instructional Videos
*Improved documentation (extended help)
*"Scatter-Gather" multi-address versions of Query&Read
*Examples cleanup and doc

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* Dialog "style" option (with "flat" style added)
* Fixes to support running on NI Linux RT:
-- ZLIB compression in TCP communication defaults to OFF (not working on RT Linux)
-- Actor Manager partially working when run on RT (though without ability to open FP/BD)

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* Support "Correlation Identifier" Messaging Pattern using Reply Addresses
--> Fix error in Reply Address Observer Translator
--> "Find Reply Address in Array" function
* Extract Inner Message; Create and Register EventMessenger

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* "Create Actor from Template" Tools-menu option.
* Improved DEV Actor Template
* DEV template with periodic events; DEV with Private Messenger
* Actors can now be made Non-Reentrant (by renaming "Actor.vi" --> "ActorNR.vi")
* Show Front Panel can now also accept a DVR of subpanel
* Registration messages use Reply Address to hold Process-to-be-Notified
* Actor Manager performance improvement
* Update "Continuous Measurement" Sample Project to use Non-Reentrant actors

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*Rewrite of internals of Observer Registry for speed
*Examples cleanup and place under Example Finder
*NOTE! Observer Register Behavior change: now notify even if state unchanged.
*Partial use of NI VariantType library in place of OpenG (fast ot LabVIEW 2013, but slower in 2011). Use Conditional Disable Symbol "OpenG_VariantTools"="True" to retain use of OpenG.
*package NAME CHANGE to "Messenger Library" (internal directory names retained as "Messenging" for back compatability)

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