Version bump to 1.6.9

NEWS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
-# Since 1.6.8
+# Version 1.6.9
 
+- Protect datagram injection mechanism against re-ordering.
+- Fixed for genet and igb drivers for openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel 6.12.
+- tty: Implemented new timer interface since kernel 6.15.
+- Do not require .config to exist in kernel sources.
+- Fix: Attach slaves before calculating DCs.
+- Discard EoE traffic in CoE statemachine, if EoE is disabled.
+- Support for Linux 6.19
 - Added `--with-kmod-dir` and `--with-ip-cmd` configuration switches
   to specify the paths of the tools used in the `ethercatctl` script.
 - Changed the default path of the `ip` command to `/sbin/ip`.

configure.ac

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.59])
 # - Check for complete Doxygen comments
 # - Update version number below
 #
-AC_INIT([ethercat], [1.6.8], [fp@igh.de])
+AC_INIT([ethercat], [1.6.9], [fp@igh.de])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([autoconf])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Wno-override -Werror dist-bzip2 subdir-objects foreign])
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])