Howdy all 🤠I'm Nate, the product manager for NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT at NI | Emerson. The rumors are true! We're working on releasing new versions of EtherCAT. We've had two recent releases that fix some usability bugs and improve the ESI file loading experience (better error handling - now we point to exact XML tag that causes us to trip up, etc.). Give them a download and let me know what else we need to do to close the gap! DM me for my direct email address if you want to chat more.