The official 1.7 release of the MTConnect Agent

Added the following features for the 1.7 release:

Composition now has Configuration
Added keyType to EntryDefinition and CellDefinition
Added support for parsing and generating Motion blocks for Configuration.
Add support for parsing and generating SolidModel blocks for Configuration.
Added the new Agent Device when the version is set to 1.7
Refactoring of the HTTP Server to a separate module in prep for MQTT and Boost
Refactoring of the parsing and generation of Assets using an abstract entity
Better error handling and content validation in assets
HTTP put now returns asset errors as an error list when the asset is not parsed
Type checking for Asset properties
JSON Parsing of assets – not wired into put yet
Better ReST query parameter handling
Added 'to' parameter to ReST protocol
Added support for adapter message rates
Completed Version 1.7 support with new SHDR commands for mtconnectVersion and adapterVersion to support the new agent device.
ShdrVersion configuration variable and adapter protocol command. Changes tokenizer behavior to allow single-line observations beyond key/value pair.
Fixed some entity issues.
Added optional Namespace support. If the namespace is not given in the configuration, the XML will exclude the namespace. Added qualified name abstractions for entities.
Some performance enhancements
Added optional header fields to solve CORS issues.
Added SuppessIPAddress option to prevent the IP Address of Adapters from the Agent Device.
Refactored many other aspects of the agent