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Foxglove 2.51.0

🔍 Data Search: query recordings, events, and messages​

Build visual queries across messages, events, devices, recordings, and sessions with the new Search page, and stream results into a sortable table—no query syntax required. Search works across data hosted in Foxglove Cloud or on your self-managed primary site, with no separate data warehouse to set up or duplicate data to keep in sync. Read more about Data Search.

💰 New self-service pricing and unlimited Basic Seats​

The Team plan is now Pro and starts at $20/month for 1 TB of storage and 3 Developer Seats (down from $126/month for 3 seats, over $100/month in savings), and meters now have volume-based discounts as usage grows. Data Search is included on Free, Pro, Academic, and Enterprise plans; Pro and Enterprise also include unlimited Basic Seats at no extra cost. Customers migrated from Team to Pro will see updated prices on their next full billing cycle. Read more about our new self-service pricing, and try the cost calculator.

🪑 Basic Seats: free seats on Pro and Enterprise plans​

Pro and Enterprise plans now include unlimited Basic Seats at no extra cost: a new seat type for teammates who visualize Foxglove-hosted data with existing layouts, without authoring their own layouts or loading local files. Pair them with Developer Seats for full authoring access to bring ops, leadership, field teams, and contractors into your workspace without per-seat costs. Read more about Basic Seats.

Basic Seat members must use Foxglove 2.51 or later on desktop to sign in.

🗄️ Bring Your Own Storage: keep raw data in your own cloud​

Enterprise plans can now connect Foxglove to an existing AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage bucket. Foxglove manages indexing, query, and visualization while your MCAP recordings stay at rest in storage you control. Pair it with Data Search to index and query petabytes of data without duplicating it into Foxglove. Usage-based pricing means you only pay for indexing, query, and bandwidth, with no charge for storage you already own. Read more about Bring Your Own Storage, or contact sales to enable it.

New & Improved
  • Event visualization: opening an event now pads the player with 5 seconds of context before and after the event time range so point events and short ranges are usable; URL start / end parameters still override the padded range when you adjust the timeline and share the link
  • Raw Messages panel: when multiple messages share the newest receiveTime, inline controls step through that group in stream order before falling back to the previous timestamp
  • Problems sidebar and Raw Messages panel show source-mapped stack traces for schema converter errors
  • Image panel: Show all and Hide all annotation topics in one click from the annotations settings
  • 3D panel: GridMap topics support a Flat elevation option that renders the grid as a flat plane without elevation displacement
  • Events: pick a custom hex color for an event type from the color picker's More colors option, in addition to the built-in palette
  • Billing: a new Usage tab embeds your live usage portal alongside the existing Plan tab
  • Storage, bandwidth, and usage figures throughout the app and billing reports now use SI units (MB, GB, TB) instead of mebibytes/gibibytes
  • Desktop: tab bar aligns with the navigation sidebar and removes the extra border under the active tab
  • Command palette: Improve translations (non-English locales), matching the existing user menu entry
  • User scripts: added eulerToQuaternion() to the built-in quaternion helpers (inverse of quaternionToEuler())
Performance
  • Improved playback performance for remote file data sources
API
  • Device property history is documented and publicly available in the API (internal gating removed)
  • Device tokens and device agent capabilities are now available on every plan in Settings, API key scopes, and the device token API
  • Self-managed primary sites must be on 0.0.100 or later to be considered searchable by Data Search; older sites show as incompatible. Foxglove-hosted sites are unaffected.
Fixes
  • Fixed arrow-key handling so panels that use their own keyboard navigation no longer also trigger global playback seek (capture-phase shortcut regression)
  • Tab panel: the entire tab header is wired to the panel drag handle again, so dragging a Tab panel by its header repositions it within the layout
  • Recordings page: selecting a row no longer shifts the table downward—the bulk-actions bar now overlays the header instead of pushing rows out of the way
  • Plot panel: supported message path functions in X-value path and the default X-axis path are no longer flagged as invalid in settings
  • Plot panel: floating legend no longer overlaps Y-axis tick labels (legend shifts horizontally based on the gutter width)
  • 3D panel: textures referenced from OBJ material libraries load correctly for package:// and file:// assets
  • 3D panel: image rendering no longer leaks GPU memory when an image topic switches between compressed video frames and raw image data
  • 3D panel: GridMap settings preserve the configured elevation layer while topic layers load, eliminating a brief "Layer does not exist" validation flicker
  • Color picker: incomplete hex values (e.g. #ab) no longer commit on each keystroke—values commit on blur, Enter, or wheel; the popover's Enter key now closes the picker as expected
  • Search: running a new query resets the timeline zoom so results render against the full time range (clears any prior visibleStart / visibleEnd)
  • Query builder: string-typed fields only offer string-relevant operators (no meaningless numeric comparisons on strings)
  • Query builder: changing the selected field preserves the value when types stay compatible; incompatible values show validation instead of silently clearing
  • Query builder: Message field paths with unknown types show the full operator list again (fixes over-restriction after string operator narrowing)
  • Search results: Manage columns stays right-aligned and the Event type column no longer stretches the header layout
  • Search query builder: removed a stray line under the active Execution details tab
  • Search results: header divider runs continuously across the scrollbar filler cell
Deprecated
  • The legacy Starter plan is no longer available to new customers. Existing Starter customers can stay on their current plan or upgrade to Pro for unlimited Basic Seats, Data Search, and the new volume discount tiers — see the pricing blog for details.

Downloads: Linux: deb amd64 arm64, snap amd64 | Windows: x64 arm64 | Mac: Apple Silicon Intel

Foxglove 2.50.0

🖼️ Image Panel: Overlay Image Topics​

The Image panel now supports overlay image topics, letting you layer segmentation masks, depth maps, or other image data directly on top of the base camera feed.

🔷 Draco-Compressed Point Clouds​

The 3D panel now renders Draco-compressed foxglove.CompressedPointCloud topics, so you can visualize large point clouds with smaller on-wire payloads. Read more about CompressedPointCloud.

📈 Plot Panel: Seek and Preview From the Chart​

When the Plot panel X-axis type is Message path, hovering a point updates preview time for the player and panels, and clicking a point seeks playback to that time.

📎 MCAP Metadata & Attachments​

The left sidebar adds Metadata and Attachments tabs for MCAP files and cloud recordings, so you can inspect key–value metadata and file attachments without leaving the view.

New & Improved
  • Context sidebar tab and data source menu entry show session, event, and recording details without leaving the visualization view
  • Keyboard shortcuts Shift+Alt+Left / Shift+Alt+Right snap event start/end time to the current playback position when editing events
  • Command palette: Add Session
  • Command palette: Go to sessions
  • Performance tab in the workspace right sidebar is always available (no debug flag required)
  • Recordings, Sessions, Events, Devices, and Timeline pages use a tighter layout with actions inline in the page heading
  • Sidebar tabs that do not fit show in an overflow dropdown instead of being clipped without access
  • Desktop Welcome page includes an Activate license link for offline license activation
  • 3D panel: transform readouts can be shown relative to parent, fixed frame, or display frame
  • 3D panel: incremental map_msgs/OccupancyGridUpdate for faster costmap-style maps
  • 3D panel depth map mode: Distance type (Z axis vs Euclidean distance along the ray)
  • Teleop panel: optional center stop control and optional stop on releasing direction buttons
  • Map panel: optional Show heading and Show velocity for LocationFix topics (arrowhead style, velocity vectors, per-topic toggles)
  • Message path functions: .@norm on arrays of scalars (e.g. in Plot and related panels)
  • Open in Raw Message panel in the 3D panel object inspector is hidden for basic seat users who cannot author layouts
  • Problems sidebar shows source-mapped stack traces for topic alias and topic converter errors
Performance
  • Lower memory use for WebGPU raw image decoding
  • Less GPU memory churn when decoding raw images
Fixes
  • Fixed event creation and display for zero-length device-based recordings
  • Fixed a crash when MCAP recordings begin at timestamp 0
  • Trimming or expanding streaming playback range keeps the current playback position
  • Fixed Plot panel settings so numeric reference-line values no longer appear invalid in the Y-value field
  • Sites no longer stay stuck showing as offline when they are online
  • Fixed extension panel directory picker closing when selecting a restricted path on desktop
  • Fixed a bug where some intervals were merged together when zooming in on the timeline
  • Diagnostics panels handle invalid topic names more reliably
  • Desktop: README and changelog render for locally installed .foxe extensions
  • Clearer flow when deleting a recording from its detail page
  • Download and coverage dialogs respect the account timezone setting
  • Fixed Windows Defender false positive when downloading or running the Foxglove Windows installer
  • Fixed publishing of protobuf bytes fields as base64 strings when publishing as JSON
Deprecated
  • User script editor moved to the right sidebar; the dedicated user script panel is deprecated

Downloads: Linux: deb amd64 arm64, snap amd64 | Windows: x64 arm64 | Mac: Apple Silicon Intel

Foxglove 2.49.0

📅 Interactive Timeline​

The Timeline now shows device coverage on a continuous time axis—one row per device—so you can pan and zoom within the range you care about. Hover along a row to see device and time, drag to select a range that stays visible until you dismiss it, and share links that open with your selection already in view.

📈 Plot Panel: Current and Preview Point Indicators​

When the Plot panel X-axis value type is set to Message path, a visual indicator now highlights the points at the current playback time. Hovering over the playback timeline shows a preview indicator at the corresponding data points.

🖼️ GPU-Accelerated Image Decoding​

Raw image decoding in the Image and 3D panels now uses WebGPU for faster performance when available, falling back to software decoding when it isn't. This release also adds NV12 (YUV 4:2:0) support and more accurate colors for common UYVY and YUYV camera formats.

New & Improved
  • Gauge, Indicator, Markdown, and State Transitions panels now reject Plot-only time-series message path functions with clear errors; Plot continues to support them
  • macOS manual update checks show in-app status while checking and downloading, and a top banner with Restart to update when an update is ready to install
  • Added Japanese and Chinese translations for previously untranslated UI strings
  • Added Add event to the command palette when the data source supports events
  • 3D panel falls back to embedded model data when a model URL fails to load
  • Extension activation errors in Problems are collapsed by default; expanding an entry shows a clearer stack trace that points to your extension’s source files
  • Embedded viewer: added seekPlayback to seek recorded data sources to a timestamp
  • Resolved conflicts between @foxglove/extension and create-foxglove-extension for extension setup
  • NaN and Infinity values in point clouds, laser scans, grids, and voxel grids (gradient or colormap modes) render as a visible animated checkerboard pattern
  • Clearer panel focus styling; the , shortcut toggles the focused panel’s settings sidebar open or closed
  • Raw Messages panel handles schema converter errors more reliably
  • Map panel handles schema converter errors more reliably
  • Clearer distinction between transform settings and transform nodes in the 3D panel
  • Change language commands in the command palette
  • Unified purple outline for panel selection across selection states
  • Panel settings API supports captions below inputs for extension authors
  • Added the GrandTour quadruped dataset to the examples page
Performance
  • Improved Raw Messages panel performance on large messages
API
  • API reference for events now documents eventTypeId and properties on responses
  • Sessions API: projectId on GET, PATCH, and DELETE is optional (still recommended)
Fixes
  • Fixed the first video frame at the start of playback not appearing in the Image panel
  • Fixed an embed authentication issue that could block logging in
  • Fixed streaming by recording key for self-hosted deployments that use index-in-place indexing
  • Fixed 3D and Image panel settings changing mid-frame during playback
  • Fixed user script autosave targeting the wrong layout when switching layouts
  • Fixed a crash when a WebSocket server sent a JSON message with a literal null body and no schema
  • Fixed stale index content when a recording was updated in an indexed bucket
  • Fixed errors when importing recordings from devices for non-admin users
  • Fixed extension panels from web-created layouts not loading on desktop
  • Fixed Map panel dropping historical points after switching topic time range modes

Downloads: Linux: deb amd64 arm64, snap amd64 | Windows: x64 arm64 | Mac: Apple Silicon Intel

Foxglove 2.48.0

🤖 URDF Joint State Control​

URDF robot models in the 3D panel can now be driven directly by sensor_msgs/JointState or foxglove.JointStates messages, performing forward kinematics within Foxglove. Previously, URDF visualization required publishing tf transforms, which often meant running complex forward kinematics calculations outside the app. See an interactive version in this playground.

🗂️ Sessions​

Sessions let you group recordings from a single device into logical units — a drive, a mission, a field test — so you can organize and visualize data by context rather than by file boundaries. Define custom properties (location, stack version, mission type) to filter and search across sessions, and open a session to load all its recordings as one continuous dataset. See docs, currently available on Team and Enterprise.

🔌 Remote Data Loaders​

Remote Data Loaders connect Foxglove to any queryable data source — internal databases, custom storage systems, or proprietary data lakes — by building a lightweight backend that produces MCAP on demand. The Remote Data Loader handles caching, seeking, and streaming so your team can visualize data directly from where it already lives, without exporting or re-uploading.

⌨️ Embedded Viewer Keybinding API​

The embedded viewer now supports keyboard shortcut customization. Teams embedding Foxglove into review tools or operator dashboards can override or suppress built-in shortcuts that conflict with the host application, and register custom keybindings that notify the parent — enabling keyboard-driven workflows like assigning quality ratings, navigating recording playlists, or controlling playback without leaving the embedded viewer.

🔍 AI-Powered Docs Search​

The documentation site now features AI-powered search. Ask a question in natural language and get a synthesized answer drawn from the docs, alongside traditional keyword results.

New & Improved
  • Scene entities in the Image panel now synchronize with video frames when "Sync annotations" is enabled, preventing entities from rendering ahead of the displayed image
  • Added "Install local extension…" command to the command palette for quickly installing .foxe files
  • Added a type filter to the "Recently viewed" dashboard list, allowing filtering by files, connections, or recordings
  • Clicking a recent data source on the dashboard now loads the layout that was last used with that data source
  • Removed expand/collapse buttons for table rows that contain only primitive values
  • Clarified websocket frame-buffer overflow messaging so users can tell when drops happened while the tab was inactive
  • Added support for the "equidistant" distortion model as an alias for "kannala_brandt" in ROS camera schemas
  • Display a helpful warning when data imports stall at a self-hosted organization
  • Event time range editing has been standardized across Data pages and Viz. All editors now use consistent "Start time", "End time", and "Duration" fields with linked editing, replacing the previous mix of "Timestamp" and "Duration" vs. "Start time" and "End time".
  • Reordered main sidebar navigation to prioritize Timeline
Performance
  • Improved performance of image topics in 3D and Image panels
  • General performance improvements
API
  • v1/data/stream now accepts a projectId parameter to disambiguate devices with the same name in different projects
Fixes
  • Fixed 'Access blocked' error when loading OpenStreetMap street tiles in the desktop app
  • Fixed Image panel annotation metadata to support per-annotation values, which now correctly take precedence over top-level image annotation metadata
  • Fixed occasional "No coordinate frames found" error when seeking backwards
  • Raw Messages panel now shows an explicit error when a message path uses Plot-only time-series functions such as @delta, @derivative, or @timedelta
  • Fixed the Table panel showing a misleading "Cannot render primitive values" error when the message path points to a nonexistent field
  • Fixed time zone handling on the Timeline page
  • Fixed recordings with forward slashes in the recordingKey URL parameter failing to load
  • Fixed a crash in the Plot panel when data arrived before the chart canvas finished mounting
  • Fixed signing out from an embedded viewer not clearing partitioned cookies, preventing login loops
  • Fixed the forward arrow in the Timeline date picker appearing clickable when the time range cannot advance further
  • Fixed a Plot panel error when switching from "Custom field" timestamp to "Message path" x-axis
  • Fixed download options incorrectly appearing for the Remote Data Loader source
  • Fixed sync annotation error not clearing when turning off annotation visibility in the Image panel
  • Fixed fullscreen panel expansion not filling the workspace when the panel is inside a Tab panel
  • Fixed Plot panel message path function chaining so scalar functions work after @derivative, @delta, and @timedelta
  • Fixed the Gauge and Indicator panels incorrectly showing valid message path function suffixes as invalid
  • Fixed a crash when a topic converter returned an array containing null elements
  • Fixed unattached buffer error on video data from a User Script
  • Fixed copied topic names pasting in incorrect order when more than 9 topics were selected in the sidebar
  • Fixed cursor jumping to the end of message path fields when editing array indices or path segments
  • Fixed the Log panel constantly scrolling when a large number of log messages were present

Downloads: Linux: deb amd64 arm64, snap amd64 | Windows: x64 arm64 | Mac: Apple Silicon Intel