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Foxglove v1.0.0

We made it - Foxglove is officially 1.0! 🥳🎈🎂🚀

With this release, we also announced MCAP, a new file format designed specifically for robotics use cases. Foxglove now supports loading MCAP files for visualizing and debugging your recorded data.

Read our full announcement to learn more about why we were motivated to design MCAP, and how this standardized container format can help you better record and understand your robotics data.

Added

  • Added support for loading local MCAP files
  • Added a new ./types utility file to the Node Playground panel
  • Added support for $(arg) substitution and <xacro:arg> defaults for URDF (.urdf.xacro) files
  • Added support for alpha rendering of rgba fields in PointCloud2 messages; changed interpretation of rgb/rgba fields to use RGBA byte order by default
  • Added a legend position setting to the Plot panel
  • Added an option to make convex hulls of polygon markers clickable in the 3D panel
  • Added support for viewing foxglove.Log messages in the Log panel
  • Added a context menu with all possible markers to select when clicking overlapping markers in the 3D panel

Changed

  • Changed the Raw Messages panel to remember fields' expansion states after playback loops
  • Added a warning when a Rosbridge connection is taking too long to look up topics and message definitions
  • Added better error messages when URDF files fail to load via drag-and-drop
  • Improved rendering and removed the line width setting for grids in the 3D panel
  • Changed the panel list to highlight the first entry only when typing a search term
  • Ensured that newly added panels that subscribe to an infrequently publishing topic (i.e. /tf_static) receive the appropriate messages
  • Ensured users never land in a state with no layout
  • Ensured the player keeps the current time when opening a Foxglove deep link, even if the originally requested start and end time have to be clamped to a different valid range

Fixed

  • Fixed the app menu option to correctly open a Rosbridge connection
  • Fixed the panel settings editor to correctly read the default config values
  • Fixed an app crash in the 3D panel by displaying an error instead when fields are missing from a PointCloud2 topic's message
  • Fixed a bug that prevented tooltips from being shown on newly selected message paths in the Plot panel
  • Fixed an error that appeared when using the Node Playground panel in multiple tabs or windows at the same time
  • Fixed the Raw Messages panel to more reliably show latching topics' latest messages on startup
  • Fixed a memory leak that occurs when the app receives many out-of-order messages due to the presence of the /clock topic
  • Fixed a Data went back in time warning that appeared in certain cases when using /clock with Rosbridge connections
  • Fixed an issue where the Plot panel's legend would be incorrectly formatted when the user hovers on a point without a valid current value and when the Show plot values in legend setting is toggled on
  • Fixed a bug where adding a new series would clear data from the current series in the Plot panel
  • Fixed an issue where the Plot and State Transitions panels incorrectly interpreted a pan gesture as a click to seek