A holiday release with bug fixes and improvements.
**NOTE**: Conda-Forge has [dropped support for Windows 32-bit](https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/issues/5640), so v0.2.7 is the last release that can be installed via conda on Windows 32-bit.
- `FIXED` Handle optional elements in ScalarVariable tag
- `FIXED` Handle null pointers in FMI logging
- `FIXED` Relax type of attribute "version" in fmiModelDescription.xsd to "normalizedString"
- `FIXED` Fix size of memory passed to fmi2DeSerializeFMUstate()
- `NEW` Validate modelDescription.outputs
- `NEW` Add compilation with Visual Studio 2017
- `NEW` Add missing attributes to ScalarVariable and validate derivatives and units
- `NEW` Change input extrapolation to "hold"