This version is packed with loads of improvements and bugfixes.

The probably most noteworthy additions are optimizers for both the modbus and s7 modules, which allow much faster reading of much data. 

Also will this be the first release that we will be doing with our new reproducible-build setup, which will allow you to check if you are using untampered with jar files.

But even if the finaning goal for this looks niminal ... without more support this is going to take a while.