pymodbus v3.1.0

We are happy to announce we have a new home pymodbus-dev, so now we are in a 100% FOSS home.
The move from riptideio (a company) was made possible thanks to @dhoomakethu
We hope that a 100% FOSS home will encourage more contributors to help make pymodbus even better.

• Add xdist pr default. (#1253)
• Create docker-publish.yml (#1250)
• Parallelize pytest with pytest-xdist (#1247)
• Support Python3.11 (#1246)
• Fix reconnectDelay to be within (100ms, 5min) (#1244)
• Fix typos in comments (#1233)
• WEB simulator, first version. (#1226)
• Clean async serial problem. (#1235)
• terminate when using 'randomize' and 'change_rate' at the same time (#1231)
• Used tooled python and OS (#1232)
• add 'change_rate' randomization option (#1229)
• add check_ci.sh (#1225)
• Simplify CI and use cache. (#1217)
• Solve issue 1210, update simulator (#1211)
• Add missing client calls in mixin.py. (#1206)
• Advanced simulator with cross memory. (#1195)
• AsyncModbusTcp/UdpClient honors delay_ms == 0 (#1203) (#1205)
• Fix #1188 and some pylint issues (#1189)
• Serial receive incomplete bytes.issue #1183 (#1185)
• Handle echo (#1186)
• Add updating server example. (#1176)

Thanks to:

Alex
banana-sun
Chris Hung
dhoomakethu
jan iversen
Matthias Straka
Pavel Kostromitinov