Added

• Added settings to manually specify the min and max x-axis values in the Plot panel
• Added a list of user-created events to the Data source sidebar tab when viewing Foxglove data
• Added support for visualizing URDF models with <link>s, but no <joint>s, in the 3D (Beta) panel

Changed

• Improved performance of the Data source sidebar tab
• Improved performance of the Data Source Info panel
• Improved coordinate frame label positioning in 3D (Beta) panel
• Improved the behavior of number input steppers in panel settings to be more reliable
• Replaced the Data source sidebar tab's opaque device ID with a user-friendly device name when viewing Foxglove data
• Updated the proxy icon to show the currently open file on the macOS desktop app
• Updated the Variable Slider panel's settings to permit fractions and undefined and fall back to defaults

Fixed

• Fixed dropped messages for certain topics in extension panels
• Fixed visualization of COLLADA files with lights in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Fixed the "Data went back in time" error when quickly scrubbing back and forth
• Fixed issues with deleted variables in the Variable sidebar tab
• Fixed an issue with the end time and duration displays for non-live data sources in the Data Source Info panel
• Fixed the transform setting and added back the "Synchronize Timestamps" setting for the Image panel
• Fixed styling for the panel actions overlay
• Fixed an issue where adding a grid or URDF layer made other topics disappear in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Fixed URDF transforms from disappearing when seeking or looping playback in the 3D (Beta) panel

Added

• Added ability to set a $selected_id variable when clicking a marker in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Add ability to override colors for marker topics in the 3D (Beta) panel

Changed

• Disabled the right-click context menu for the entire app so it doesn’t clash with the browser’s context menu
• Hide Safari UI components when launching the web app from the Home Screen on iOS
• Improved messages for runtime errors in the User Scripts panel
• Removed unactionable topic count from the 3D (Beta) panel’s settings sidebar
• Added visual feedback when hovering on a tab in the Tab panel
• Enabled message latching as the default behavior
• Persisted changes in the Map panel’s pan and zoom levels

Fixed

• Fixed transparent object ordering in the new 3D (beta) panel
• Fixed a Rosbridge connection failure when publishing messages from the 3D and 3D (Beta) panels’ publish messages
• Fixed an issue in the 3D (Beta) panel where the camera controls didn't work if the panel was initially loaded in 2D view mode
• Fixed a bug in the 3D (Beta) panel where the settings sidebar would not update when toggling between 2D and 3D mode via the panel button or keyboard shortcut
• Fixed an issue with numeric step buttons in the 3D (Beta) panel’s settings
• Fixed manual looping when message latching is enabled
• Fixed an issue in the layouts’ context menu when saving or reverting changes for multiple layouts
• Fixed outdated links to documentation
• Fixed an issue with the Teleop panel’s settings
• Fixed a bug in 3D (Beta) when switching OccupancyGrid settings between opaque and translucent colors
• Improved the 3D (Beta) panel’s rendering of opaque occupancy grids

Added

• Added a button for clearing color settings fields
• Added ability to apply custom colors to foxglove.geoJSON messages in the Map panel

Changed

• Redesigned the Variables sidebar UI
• Ensured that seeking forwards and backwards both navigate the same amount of time
• Replaced the color picker with react-colorful
• Improved the State Transition panel's color selection
• Improved startup time for Rosbridge connections with large topic graphs
• Used default cursor for the Map panel

Fixed

• Fixed a bug with message latching when using a slow frame rate or looping playback
• Fixed a 3D (Beta) panel crash when a line strip marker is updated to have 0 points
• Removed erroneous gaps in the playback scrubber that appeared even if all data was present
• Fixed issues with the Image panel's handling of foxglove.PointsAnnotation messages
• Fixed an issue with message path autocomplete
• Fixed an issue with animations in the Variables sidebar
• Fixed messages drops when playing back data with multiple messages at the exact same log or receive times

Added:

• Added a Gauge panel for displaying numerical values on a colored scale
• Added an experimental feature for displaying a memory use indicator
• Added support for saving, reverting, and duplicating multiple layouts at once in the sidebar’s Layouts tab
• Added support for glTF meshopt-compressed files to the 3D (Beta) panel
• Added an opacity setting for point clouds using colormap or rgb coloring in the 3D (Beta) panel

Changed:

• Improved rendering performance for text labels in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Removed the x, y, and z fields from the Euler angle in the User Scripts panel's quaternions.ts utility
• Improved the automatic matching between camera images and camera info topics in the 3D (Beta) panel

Fixed:

• Fixed autocomplete behavior in the Plot panel
• Fixed interaction conflicts with panel toolbars inputs and drag-and-drop functionality
• Fixed an issue with the auto-detected timezone in app preferences
• Fixed toggling topic visibility with a keyboard in the 3D panel
• Fixed a bug with different messages’ private fields in the Raw Messages panel

Changed

• Improved playback performance with new latching player
• Removed fluentui dependency from colorUtils
• Killed fluentui makeStyles (this time it's personal)

Fixed

• Fixed bug where some messages would be dropped with new latching player
• Fixed dialogs to submit when Enter key is pressed

Added

• Turned message latching feature for bag, MCAP, and Foxglove data sources on by default
• Added support for new definition of foxglove.FrameTransform schema
• Added support for overriding topic colors in the Map panel
• Added a global keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-b) to close the sidebar
• [Extension API] Add global variable support with a setVariable() method on the panel context, and a variables map on the RenderState
• Added ability to batch delete layouts in the sidebar’s Layouts tab
• Added support for using Shift to select multiple layouts in the sidebar’s Layouts tab
• Added a new quaternion utility library for the User Scripts panel

Changed

• Renamed the Node Playground panel to the User Scripts panel
• Adjusted 3D (Beta) panel so that it will no longer auto-select a different frame if the user-selected one does not exist
• Replaced the multi-delete icon in the sidebar’s Layouts tab with a delete option in the context menu
• Persisted the expansion state of nodes in the Raw Messages panel
• Changed search in the Add panel sidebar tab to search by both panel titles and descriptions
• Changed panel settings inputs to only include placeholder where relevant, and added an array of placeholder values for vec2 and vec3 input fields
• Changed the Data Source Info panel to show all topics in ROS 2 .db3 files, even if they cannot be deserialized

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with long message path inputs in Plot panels on Linux Chrome
• Fixed parsing error in the 3D (Beta) panel for some COLLADA meshes
• Fixed issue in 3D (Beta) panel so that the selected object dialog links to the correct topic name
• Fixed the "reset to defaults" function in the Panel settings sidebar tab for extension panels
• Fixed an issue with saving the current script before creating a new one in the User Scripts panel
• Fixed issue so that data playback continues, even if a user script has a return type that cannot be handled
• Fixed a bug with renaming unsaved layouts

Added

• Added support for preloading and plotting the message outputs of Node Playground panel scripts
• Added support for file:// URLs in MESH_RESOURCE markers and URDF models

Changed

• No longer display message frequency for topics with a single message in the Data source sidebar tab
• Reorganized panel settings and added an error message for image topics when the associated CameraInfo topic is not found in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Deleted the experimental feature for "Unlimited in-memory cache", as it is no longer useful and will likely lead to app crashes or slowdowns

Fixed

• Fixed a crash in Diagnostic panels when an unsupported datatype is published on the /diagnostic topic
• Fixed a bug in the 3D (Beta) panel where seeking would sometimes result in orientation changes if a transform frame had not been manually selected

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Added

• Added support for foxglove.PointCloud and foxglove.FrameTransform messages in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Added a disclaimer for the native ROS 2 connection in the Data source dialog
• Added ability to visualize MarkerArray topics in the 3D (Beta) panel when no transform messages are published
• Added measurement tool to the 3D (Beta) panel
• Implemented syncing extensions to a private registry
• Added ability to click a marker to publish a point or pose in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Added URDF support for the 3D (Beta) panel
• Implemented more defaults in the 3D (Beta) panel settings
• Added a context menu when clicking on multiple objects in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Added a button and keyboard shortcut for toggling between 2D and 3D view in the 3D (Beta) panel

Changed

• Replaced missing messages with an error when playing malformed JSON messages
• Made layout sync failure notifications less intrusive

Fixed

• Exposed settings for nav_msgs/Path messages in the 3D (Beta) panel settings
• Fixed issue with Node Playground panel scripts that reference custom datatypes
• Fixed an issue with ROS 2 bag message reading
• Fixed a crash in the 3D (Beta) panel when rendering PoseArrays that grew over time as axes or arrows
• Fixed certain MCAP files from having their message data read out of order
• Fixed a bug where saving changes to a new layout while offline would delete that new layout when going back online

Added

• Added support for bgra8 encoding in the Image panel and 3D (Beta) panel

Changed

• Improved performance in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Improved performance of text markers in the 3D (Beta) panel

Fixed

• Fixed ordering of the Map panel’s settings fields to be more intuitive
• Fixed an issue with dragging panels within a Tab panel’s tab
• Removed visual artifacts when rendering grids and lines in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Removed the global variable UI from the 3D (Beta) panel, as the feature is not yet implemented

Added

• Added support for FlatBuffers as an MCAP encoding
• Implemented the decay setting for PointCloud and LaserScan topics in the 3D (Beta) panel

Changed

• Padded nsec fields with leading zeros in the Raw Messages panel
• Improved handling of MCAP files containing errors on some channels
• Improved 3D (Beta) panel behavior when moving between different display resolutions
• Improved 3D (Beta) panel performance when marker IDs change frequently
• Improved the panel settings UI by showing color input field values as hex values

Fixed

• Fixed incorrect color conversion for LaserScan points in the 3D (Beta) panel
• Fixed 3D (Beta) panel to follow the app color scheme
• Fixed Foxglove WebSocket support for MCAP files with JSON encoded data