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Foxglove v0.5.0

Our engineers spent the week on an expedition deep into our chart rendering code. I think we could call it a success! Somehow, they managed to also build a few shiny new features at the same time...

Added​

  • New Map panel
  • New Topic Graph panel
  • New grid layer in the 3D panel
  • Ability to customize the 3D panel background with ColorRGBA messages
  • Support for loading 3D panel TFs from any topic
  • Node Playground can now learn TFs from MarkerArray messages
  • Support for ROS topics that don't start with /
  • New time zone setting
  • UI to opt out of telemetry & crash reporting

Changed​

  • Way better Plot panel performance
  • Use /clock for currentTime if available on native ROS connections
  • Improved topic selector UX in the Image panel
  • Better error messages for remote bags

Fixed​

  • Fixed app crash on some Windows machines due to off screen font loading
  • Fixed dragging panels from the Add Panel menu
  • Fixed 3D panel breaking after reconnecting an external display
  • Fixed click-to-seek functionality in Plot panel
  • Inform ROS master when unsubscribing from a topic
  • Node Playground was broken due to loading wasm from shared workers
  • Fixed silent getUserDefault error on non-macOS platforms
  • Fixed automatically inferred transforms for some point clouds
  • Fixed "split panel" action for panels with no config

Internals​

  • New high-performance lazy ROS message parser
  • Fixed an issue with hot reloading icons
  • Moved default panel configuration into each panel
  • Updated sample-robot-docker to work on macOS
  • Better capturing of errors from shared workers
  • Upgraded electron, fixing several issues including missing source maps
  • Fixed storybook delays
  • Automatically merge dependabot updates
  • Split app/util/hooks.tsx into separate files
  • Added Windows git checkout to CI
  • Replace PopperJS with FluentUI tooltips
  • Added logging support to @foxglove/ros1
  • Replaced custom Dimensions component with react-resize-detector
  • Fixed wasm-bz2 unit tests on Windows
  • Fixed many @typescript-eslint/strict-boolean-expressions and missing return types
  • Added typescript-plugin-styled-components for improved CSS class names
  • Added release tracking to Sentry error reports