v0.21.0

Features:

• Publish Windows artefacts (#891).
• Add tune plugin (#879).
• Add shell plugin (#878).
• Add helpers to convert between local (meters) and global (GNSS) coordinates (#868).
• Add odometry to telemetry (#866).
• Add mocap plugin (#850).

Bugfixes:

• Travis: change name of exe as it's 32 bit (#894).
• Travis: change name of mavsdk_server for Windows (#893).
• Integration_tests: fix intermittent test fail (#882).
• Enable geofence in mavsdk_server (#870).

Improvements:

• Add linux-armv7 to travis (#888).
• Remove switching to HOLD mode before arm and takeoff (#886).
• Remove unused dependencies (#883).
• Update libressl to 3.0.1 (#881).
• Remove default build in ios and ios_simulator in CI (#880).
• Update grpc to 1.24.0 (#877).
• Propagate cmake arguments to superbuild dependencies (#876).
• Remove MANYLINUX option now that dockcross declares it (#875).
• zlib: use nicer patch to install cmake config (#874).
• Update curl to 7.66 (#872).
• Move to jsoncpp and make non-superbuild work with jsoncpp and tinyxml2 (#865).

Contributors:

@irsdkv, @JonasVautherin, @julianoes

v0.20.0

Features:

• Add geofence to mavsdk_server (#856).
• Add MAVLink FTP plugin (#774).

Bugfixes:

• Fix target system ID check (#862).

Improvements:

• Remove unneded version define in cmake (#867).
• Move to jsoncpp and make non-superbuild work with jsoncpp and tinyxml2 (#865).
• Small improvements to telemetry plugin and test (#863).
• Only sleep if required in integration tests (#859).
• Remove caching in params (#847).

Contributors:

@coderkalyan, @irsdkv, @julianoes, @MatejFranceskin

v0.19.0

Features:

• Add landed state to telemetry (#843).
• Add AttitudeAngularVelocityBody, AttitudeAngularVelocityBody and ActuatorOutputStatus to telemetry (#832).
• Allow messages to be stopped or rate set to default (#819).
• Add clear mission support (#818).
• Add gimbal mode support (#815).
• Add getter for version in core (#810).
• Add GPS Unix epoch time to telemetry (#798).
• Support for range-based params in camera plugin (#791).
• Add actuator control to offboard plugin (#782).

Bugfixes:

• Fix protobuf build on RPi (#844).
• Workaround param issue with E10T (#841).
• Generate mavsdk_server_bin.exe instead of mavsdk_server.exe with MSVC (#834).
• Workaround for param mismatch in mavlink_parameters (#833).
• Add O_NONBLOCK to the serial config (#831).
• Fix mission progress edge case (#825).
• Fix NED -> Ned typo in mavsdk_server (#821).
• Fix destruction of serial connection in core (#809).
• Fix position health flags on GPS loss (#807).
• Set camera_photo_interval correctly (#801).
• Prevent deadlocks in camera (#796).

Improvements:

• Remove caching in params module (#847).
• Extract cpp_rsc (#840).
• Version generated files (#839).
• Don't filter from UDP_BRIDGE anymore (#828).
• CMake changes to support MAVSDK as submodule (#824).
• Add is_range flag in camera (#822).
• Use magic number to kill (#817).
• Re-use mavlink_include.h in mavlink passthrough (#812).
• Fix Jenkins CI failures (#808).
• Update gRPC to 1.22.0 (#803).

Documentation:

• Improve documentation for yaw angle reference frame in gimbal (#826).

Contributors:

@byuarus, @douglaswsilva, @elbarto1980, @irsdkv, @Jaeyoung-Lim, @JonasVautherin, @julianoes, @shrit, @Stifael

v0.18.3

Improvements

• Add angular velocity and acceleration to telemetry (#779).
• Disable CODEGEN and protobuf binaries when cross-compiling (#786).
• Change clang-format style (#790, #795).
• Fix ycm config after folder structure changed (#792).

Bugfixes

• Choose correct dockerhub repo (#789).
• Fix docker scripts and CI integration tests (#793).
• Fix error checking for multiple drones (#794).
• Fixes to prevent deadlocks in camera (#796).
• Workaround PX4 takeoff in integration tests (#797).

Contributors

@JonasVautherin, @julianoes, @krady21, @shusilshapkota

v0.18.2

Bugfixes

• Fix race condition in gRPC streams that was observed to crash latest releases on iOS (#785).

Documentation

• Add new MAVSDK logo to README (#781).

Contributors

@JonasVautherin, @julianoes

v0.18.1

Bugfixes

• Fix deployment after backend_bin got renamed to mavsdk_server (#772, #775).
• Fix up generation of namespace docs (#773).
• Fix iOS framework modulemap (backend -> mavsdk_server) (#778).

Documentation

• Reposition repo following move to MAVLink organization (#777).
• Fix links in README (#776).

Contributors

@hamishwillee, @JonasVautherin, @RyanHurst

v0.18.0

Features

• Add support for Yuneec E10T camera (#757).

Improvements

• Rename from DronecodeSDK to MAVSDK (#762, #768).
• Regenerate proto files on change (#766).
• Reorganize dependencies into a superbuild, using exclusively CMake (#724, #759, #760, #763, #764).
• Build all the dependencies instead of relying on some binaries (e.g. for curl on Android/iOS) (#724).
• Build and deploy mavsdk_server for manylinux and osx (#767, #769, #770, #772).
• Add attitude rate flips to integration tests (#753).
• Update MAVLink (#756).

Documentation

• Add new example that runs multiple plan files on multiple drones (#761).

Contributors

@darioxz, @JonasVautherin, @julianoes, @shusilshapkota, @thomasetter

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).