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NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 2023 Q1 Bug Fixes

Created Jun 22, 2023

Overview

The following items are notable issues fixed between the release of NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 21.5 and NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 2023 Q1, including additional patches and service packs. If you have an issue ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT.

Bug Number

Legacy ID

Description

Details
1620633

LabVIEW 2021 Crashes When an EtherCAT Target Is Added to the Project Tree

When using the NI Industrial Communications for EtherCAT 21.5 driver with LabVIEW 2021, adding an EtherCAT target to the project tree causes LabVIEW to crash.

Workaround:

Use a previous version of LabVIEW or install LabVIEW version 2021 SP1. The issue has been fixed in LabVIEW 2021 SP1.

Reported Version:

LabVIEW: 2021 | NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT: 21.5

Resolved Version:

LabVIEW: 2021 SP1

Added:

Feb 25, 2022

Additional Patch Information

Installing some patches may require certain additional steps or considerations. Please refer to the following table for more information about patches for this release.

These patches currently do not have any special instructions.

Glossary of Terms

 

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