PAL 2.8.1

*v2.8.1*
* *Threshold File Update:* All threshold files have been converted to UTF-8 to help support globalization.
* *Locale Update:* English and non-English locales are supported now.
* *Performance Optimzation:* Counter translation for counter logs recorded in non-English languages is now more efficient and faster.
* *.NET Framework update:* PAL now uses the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2.
* *PAL Wizard update:* Several updates to the PAL Wizard user interface.

*v2.8.0*
* *New Feature:* Non-English counter log support added. Added support for counter logs recordered in Chinese, Czech (Czech Republic), Dutch (Netherlands), French (France), German (Germany), Hungarian (Hungary), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Polish (Poland), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian (Russia), Spanish (Spain), Swedish (Sweden), and Turkish (Turkey).
* *Performance:* Removed counter log filtering which reduced the size of the counter log in order to add support for non-English languages. Analysis of logs might take longer.
* *Known Bug:* Analyses that use regular expressions such as SQL Server named instances might not work with non-English counter logs.
* *Threshold File Update:* The All threshold file has been not been updated in many years and has been removed. Use the Auto-Detect feature instead.

README.md

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  - Analyzes performance counter logs for thresholds using thresholds that change their criteria based on the computer's role or hardware specs.
 
  ## Requirements
- The current stable release version requires the Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework feature to be enabled on the Windows device. The pre-release version is compiled against the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2 and typically does not require Windows OS features to be enabled specifically for this tool.
+ The current stable release version requires the Microsoft .NET 4.7.2 framework feature to be enabled on the Windows device.
 
 ## How to download
 If you wish to install the PAL tool, then download `PAL_Setup`. It contains the Microsoft installer files. Right-click and go to Properties of the zip file, select Unblock, and then click OK. Extract the zip file to a new, empty folder, and then run Setup.