The latest iteration of our 3D Panel is available for beta testing! 🥳

Add the new 3D (Beta) panel to your layout, and check out its newly streamlined settings UI in the sidebar's "Panel settings" tab. Enjoy a more seamless visualization and debugging experience, with improved 3D rendering performance and other upgrades.

Added

• Enabled custom panel extensions in the Foxglove web app
• Added a new 3D (Beta) panel, designed largely to improve 3D rendering performance, for user testing
• Added ability to filter by label in the sidebar’s panel settings UI

• [Extension API] Added a dataSourceProfile string to the PanelExtensionContext

Changed

• Made Data source dialog more responsive on smaller screens

Fixed

• Fixed the sample data layout so that clicking the Diagnostics – Summary (ROS) panel correctly updates the existing Diagnostics – Details (ROS) panel
• Fixed an issue where the app would temporarily stop displaying data when panels were hidden or removed from the layout
• Fixed an issue with the Plot panel’s legend not having an updated list of paths whenever a path is added from outside the panel, e.g. a Raw Messages panel
• Fixed issues with native ROS 2 connections by including missing datatypes in the underlying data player

Added

• Added an Indicator panel that allows you to configure a map of values to colors / labels for display
• [Extension API] Added ability to specify which subscribed topics should be preloaded
• Added a Map panel setting for a topic to follow in the viewport
• [Extension API] Added a boolean didSeek value to the RenderState

Changed

• Moved the controls in the URDF panel toolbar into the settings sidebar
• Improved usability of the input fields in the Plot panel
• Changed external links in the Help sidebar to open in a new window instead of replacing the current Foxglove window

Fixed

• Fixed loading data sources with foxglove.FrameTransform messages in the 3D panel
• Fixed app crash when loading a layout with missing extension panels
• Fixed an issue with undraggable panels
• Fixed alignment for the empty loading state in the Map panel

Added

• Added an error indicator for invalid custom tile URLs in the Map panel’s settings
• Added support for images encoded in rgba8 in the Image panel
• Added a callService method to the custom panel extension API

Changed

• Cleaned up topic dropdown and refactored the zoom button for visual consistency in the Image panel
• Updated Node Playground type definitions to include newer Foxglove message schemas from @foxglove/schemas
• Updated ROS 2 native connection's type definitions to include newer Foxglove message schemas from @foxglove/schemas
• Sorted the annotation topics in the Image panel so that camera topics are at the top of the list
• Removed the help icon from the panel toolbar to conserve toolbar space
• Reorganized panel toolbar buttons for improved UX
• Improved performance of the Layouts sidebar with more caching
• Changed sample data exploration to serve the demo bag from our CDN
• Encourage users to get rid of any deprecated Welcome panels in their layouts
• Made it possible to rename node labels in the sidebar's settings UI
• Moved the topic dropdown from the Log panel's toolbar into the sidebar's settings UI and removed the item count from the toolbar
• Moved the topic selector in the Diagnostics – Summary panel into the sidebar’s settings UI
• Moved the topic selector in the Diagnostics – Detail panel into the sidebar’s settings UI
• Hid the settings cog icon in the panel toolbar for panels without settings
• Allowed using http://localhost for custom map tile URLs in the Map panel when using the desktop app

Fixed

• Fixed autocomplete logic for arrays in message path syntax
• Fixed the Raw Message panel from crashing when a user hovers over (u)int64 values within object array fields on messages
• Fixed crash when viewing data with types that reference themselves in the message path input component
• Fixed the Image panel’s zoom to fit and zoom to fill features
• Fixed an issue with keyboard shortcuts in the Image panel
• Fixed desktop app so that clicking "New Window" correctly opens a new app window

Changed

• Improved performance for the Image panel’s zoom functionality
• Disabled the "Experimental bag player" feature by default

Fixed

• Fixed ability to click a marker to view details in the Image panel
• Fixed a crash when parsing Foxglove JSON schemas that contain enums
• Fixed an erroneous empty state in the Image panel

Added

• Added editable title to Plot panel toolbar

Changed

• Increased padding on panel toolbar icons

Added

• Added animation effect when panels enter or exit fullscreen mode

Changed

• Cleaned up extension styling in the app sidebar
• Surfaced an error in the settings sidebar when the Plot panel's "Y min" is greater than its "Y max"

Fixed

• Fixed handling of Protobuf messages containing google.protobuf.Timestamp and google.protobuf.Duration
• Fixed an incorrect error message when an MCAP file contains messages that can't be decoded
• Fixed the 3D panel's pose tool to publish a pose based on the user's first click (start of pose arrow), rather than the second (end of pose arrow)

Changed

• Removed the default folder and file Icons in the settings sidebar

Fixed

• Fixed the issue of redundant toolbars on extension panels
• Fixed y-axis min and max settings for the Plot panel
• Fixed a crash when trying to edit Teleop panel settings

Changed

• Moved the Image panel's topic and marker selection into the settings sidebar
• Refactored panels to have a persistent toolbar with consistent height
• Changed the settings sidebar to display field-level errors
• Renamed the Diagnostics – Summary and Diagnostics – Detail panels to reflect that they are ROS-specific
• Removed the Studio – Internals panel

Fixed

• Hovering over buttons with tooltips properly displays the tooltip, without the button title
• Fixed support for ROS 2 rcl_interfaces/msg/Log messages in the Log panel

Added

• Add Custom map tile layer option to Map panel
• Add new message expansion options in the Raw Messages panel

Changed

• Updated Tab panel tabs to look more like tabs
• Moved ordering messages by header.stamp for playback behind an experimental flag

Fixed

• Fixed panel dragging
• Fixed sample data source creating many duplicate layouts

Added

• Added support for rgba color values in the panel settings sidebar
• Added ability to toggle the visibility of nodes in the panel settings sidebar
• Added a 2-point gradient color picker to the panel settings sidebar

Changed

• Formatted the x-axis tick marks in the Plot panel for consistency, to reduce jitter for live-updating data
• Replaced the inline help buttons on panel settings fields with tooltips
• Adjusted light mode background color hierarchy to be more consistent with dark mode styles
• Moved the Rosbridge connection option to the top of the list in the Data source dialog
• Moved the actions buttons in the panel settings sidebar into an action menu
• Improved the link-sharing experience by always attempting to remotely load a URL’s layoutId from a signed in user’s account

Fixed

• Fixed app from freezing when seeking to the end of a dataset time range
• Fixed panels so that they no longer flash to an empty state when seeking or scrubbing
• Fixed ROS 2 native subscriptions to large message topics
• Fixed a bug where ROS 1 C++ subscribers were unable to connect to topics published by the app
• Fixed a CameraInfo error in the Image panel when the “Transform markers” setting is enabled