v0.17.0 Coach

Features

• Add geofence plugin to C++ core (#545, #744).

Improvements

• Improve integration tests and add them to the CI (#642).
• Add support for setAttitude to gRPC backend (#743).
• Ignore messages from QGC (#747).
• Fix GCC 9 warnings (#748).

Bugfixes

• Fix camera thread-safety (#746).
• Fix failing mission transfer in integration tests (#752).

Contributors

@a6a3uh, @julianoes, @jzaturensky

v0.16.0 Eddie

Features

• Add gRPC backend support for offboard plugin (#735).
• Add attitude control too offboard plugin (#726).
• Add possibility to set an arbitrary acceptance radius to mission waypoints (#716).
• Add StatusText to telemetry plugin (#733).
• Enable backend to accept connection URL (#730).

Improvements

• Add NO_SETPOINT_SET result to Offboard plugin (#738).

Bugfixes

• Fix MAVLink Passthrough unsubscription (#741).
• Fix broken links in README (#739).
• Remove unreliable unit tests from backend (#734).
• Fix MSVC build (#722, #729).
• Fix timeout for 16-char mavlink parameters (#725).

Contributors

@ad-snow, @aokholm, @cswkim, @douglaswsilva, @julianoes, @RicardoM17

v0.15.0 Diane

Features:

• Add configuration option to set the system and component ID (#710).
• Add gimbal support (#687).
• Add param support (#686).
• Add reboot action (#707).
• Add PositionNED to offboard plugin (#696).
• Add support for cancelling calibration, mission upload and mission download (#682).

Improvements

• Improve printing of PositionNED and VelocityNED (#715).
• Send heartbeat only after vehicle is discovered (#609).
• Get rid of termios2 (to allow build on systems like manylinux) (#700).
• Remove superfluous warnings in backend build (#692).
• Remove superfluous macro (#688).

Bugfixes

• Fix crashes in Mission plugin (#678, #701, #714).
• Fix crashes in Camera plugin (#681, #699).
• Fix crashes in MissionRaw plugin (#684).
• Fix Appveyor badge in README (#705).
• Fix "pointer not aligned" warning in iOS builds (#709).
• Fix Android build and update gRPC dependencies (#683).
• Fix includes (#679).

CI

• Bring Jenkins back (#704).

Documentation

• Improve documentation (#693).
• Add example for handling multiple drones (#675).

v0.14.2

• Fix in mavlink_passthrough: reset intercepting messages (#664).
• Fix in mission: use correct callback for download timeout (#665).
• Fix: don't remove pending timeouts on disconnect (#666).
• Fix race condition in mission service (#668).
• Fix in camera: wrong comparison was returning a timeout when setting camera parameters (#670).
• Fix crash in CMake when version number is unexpected (#671).
• Add Dockerfile to build an alpine-based backend image (#673).

v0.14.1

• Fix installation (#659).
• Improve documentation (#659).
• Fix Info.plist in backend.framework (#662).

v0.14.0 Carla

• Add mavlink passthrough plugin for lower-level access to mavlink (#657).
• CI: Removal of Jenkins until it gets more stable (#648, #655, #656).
• Update list of running plugins in the backend (#654).
• Simplify mission request by removing the MissionItems struct (#658).
• Merge SubscribeDiscover and SubscribeTimeout into SubscribeConnectionState (#658).
• Add camera photo interval to MissionItem (#658).

v0.13.0 Frederick

Release after some header file reorganisation and added features.
The aim is to keep releases going at a 2 week rhythm.

• Install plugin headers in proper hierarchy (#638).
• Fix telemetry landed/in-air field (#641).
• CI: Removal of Fedora 27, addition of Fedora 29 (#643).
• MissionRaw plugin added for direct MAVLink mission item access (#644 ).
• Fix for segfault on plugin init (#647).
• Fix YouCompleteMe linting in vim (#647).
• Improve comparison of mission items (#650).

v0.12.0 Serafina

Release after the release mechanism was broken for a while. There have been numerous changes in the meantime:

• DroneCore renamed to DronecodeSDK (#438)
• Camera improvements (#418, #426, #432, #470, #479, #493, #503, #505, #509, #513, #515, #520, #522, #524, #526, #531, #539, #576, #579, #580)
• Action improvements (#446, #462, #485, #519, #551, #588, #595)
• Mission improvements (#421, #423, #469, #488, #507, #508, #510, #521, #552, #574, #575, #584, #592, #617, #619, #626)
• Telemetry improvements (#433, #471, #475, #518, #623, #634)
• Follow-me improvements (#566)
• Info improvements (#608, #629)
• Offboard improvements (#627)
• New calibration plugin (#436, #447, #560, #593, #596, #599, #625)
• New log file download plugin (#525)
• New param plugin (#585)
• Core fixes (#430, #439, #455, #449, #463, #466, #476, #477, #480, #497, #500, #514, #543, #544, #550, #555, #556, #565, #590, #601)
• Improved testing (#459, #460, #496, #498, #586)
• Build system fixes (#419, #425, #428, #431, #435, #453, #456, #461, #465, #490, #491, #492, #530, #549, #557, #564, #567, #568, #583, #597, #600, #613, #615, #622, #628)
• CI changes (#420, #444, #445, #458, #472, #482, #489, #548, #558, #559, #569)
• Documentation fixes (#443, #532, #598, #632)
• Backend additions (#448, #495, #504, #506, #511, #512, #523, #527, #528, #535, #537, #561, #572, #578, #581, #582, #591, #604, #605, #606)

v0.5.0 Al

Release with a couple of bugfixes, comment improvements, and many additions in the gRPC backend.
This is essentially a test release before 1.0.0.

• Support for @note and @warning doc tags (#374)
• Serial connection support for Windows (#375)
• gRPC backend additions and fixes (#376, #377, #382, #385, #397, #405, #407, #409, #416)
• Various build fixes (#378, #379, #383 #386, #413)
• Various bugfixes (#384, #387, #390, #391, #393, #402, #406)
• Removed deprecated armeabi Android build (#392)
• Improved public comments (#394, #415)
• Fixes in examples (#395, #400, #403, )
• Added thread pool for user callbacks (#396)
• Switch from astyle to clang format (#410)
• Sync mode setter for camera (#414)

v0.4.0 Robin

Release after a big round of refactoring and improvements:

• Serial connection support on macOS (#372)
• gRPC backend (#371, #369, #357, #352, #342, #330, #327, #320, #313, #303, #300, #299, #295, #266)
• gRPC proto defined (#346, #302)
• Build system fixes (#370, #354, #283, #276)
• Notification of already connected system on discover (#360)
• YouCompleteMe config (#356)
• Camera actions and settings added (#338)
• Support for gimbal ROI (#323)
• Multi-component handling (#310)
• Docs fixes (#298, #297, #271, #246, #242, #237, #223)
• New examples for follow me and importing a QGC mission (#274)
• Ability to import QGC mission plans (#235)
• Support to connect based on a URL argument (#264)
• Initial CI work for Jenkins (#257)
• Follow me plugin improvements and example (#217, #199)
• Various fixes (#349, #324, #316, #311, #308, #306, #289, #288, #280, #230, #228, #206, #203)