We're excited to introduce the new Foxglove WebSocket protocol, which allows you to load and visualize your custom (non-ROS) data inside Foxglove!

Added

• Added Foxglove WebSocket data source
• Added dark theme for Quick Look previews
• Added app version in Help sidebar

Changed

• Changed Image panel behavior to automatically select an available image topic when opened as a new panel
• Changed ImageMarker colors to use [0,1] range, consistent with Marker

Fixed

• Avoided storing recent files in indexeddb
• Loaded last used layout, if no layout was specified in the app URL

Added

• Added a setParameter method to the extensions API
• Added support for basic datatypes to the Node Playground panel, even when they are not present in the data source
• Added backwards compatibility to deep-linking URLs, to support both legacy foxglove:// and new ds.* URLs
• Added support for dragging and dropping folders – ROS 1 and PX4 currently open the first valid file, while ROS 2 opens multiple files

Changed

• Removed DEPRECATED__ros support from the Node Playground
• Allowed incoming /tf messages to reparent an existing parent-child frame connection
• Allowed 3D panel scene to be set to a non-root frame – to render objects when transforms to the root frame are missing, and to fix precision issues when coordinate frames are far from the root frame
• Reorganized desktop app's menu items across the File, Edit, and View menus
• Changed "ROS 2 Bag (local)" data source to use the Open File, not Open Folder, dialog
• Styled placeholder text in input fields to have a lower opacity

Fixed

• Fixed alignment of the "Change panel" menu
• Fixed subscribing to previously published "latched" topics in ROS 2
• Fixed app crashes when decoding some ROS 2 data
• Set the correct defaults for panels that are swapped in for another panel
• Fixed an issue where Plot panels would reset when topics were dynamically added or removed
• Fixed a crash when rendering PoseStamped topics in the 3D panel
• Fixed handling of locally initiated ROS 1 parameter updates
• Fixed a missing border between the sidebar and sidebar content
• Fixed flickering visualizations when connected to a live ROS 1 source that publishes simulated time on the /clock topic
• Fixed deep-linking issue to properly restore state from URLs not at the root path #2326)

Added

• Added support for displaying ROS URDF files in the 3D panel
• Add Resources, Product, and Legal sections to the desktop app’s Help menu
• Duplicated items in the app sidebar in the desktop app's File menu
• Added support for interpolating transforms in the 3D panel
• Added arm64 builds for Windows

Changed

• Removed extraneous model selection fields from the 3D panel’s pose settings
• Rename Websocket to Rosbridge in dialog box for consistency
• Duplicated items in the desktop app's Help menu in the Help sidebar
• Improved error messaging for loading empty ROS 2 bags
• Improved error messaging for XML-RPC failures in ROS1 data source
• Changed "View docs" links in Help sidebar to always open a new browser tab
• Grouped connection options under one submenu in the desktop app's File menu

Fixed

• Fixed bugs where panels disappeared when dragged from a tab into a nested tab, and where the app crashed when dragging a Tab panel as the highest-level panel in a layout
• Fixed to avoid app crashes when replaying bag data with the --clock flag
• Updated the "Account Settings" link to direct to the correct URL
• Fixed loading mesh resource markers with capitalized file extensions such as .STL
• Fixed bug where selecting panel docs in the Help sidebar would display the wrong information
• Fixed Node Playground to work with more than one active node at a time
• Fixed parameter parsing in @foxglove/rtps
• Fixed an intermittent incorrect warning ("Bag went back in time") when switching layouts
• Fixed extensions API to initialize panels with the correct default state
• Fixed message path syntax to correctly detect valid paths for time and duration
• Fixed incorrect placement of the "Change panel" menu
• Fixed to avoid app crashes when playing back a data source that publishes markers without transforms
• Fixed Plot panel to update as new live data appears
• Fixed the Plot panel’s CSV download feature to provide the correct values for int64 and uint64 fields
• Fixed unresponsive "Add Topic" item inside the Image panel's "Markers" menu
• Fixed fullscreen toggle for panels within Tab panel tabs

Added

• Added the ability to choose between displaying UNIX vs. local timestamps in the Preferences tab
• Added an enter / exit fullscreen icon to each panel's toolbar
• Added support for loading local .mcap files

Fixed

• Surfaced initialization errors when loading certain data sources in the Connection sidebar tab
• Fixed regression by removing unnecessary help content from the Panel Settings sidebar tab

Added

• Added support for loading and displaying PX4 ULogs (.ulg) files
• Added a setting in the Preferences sidebar to toggle between light mode and the default dark mode
• Added support for loading COLLADA (.dae) files as mesh markers in the 3D panel
• Added a background color setting to the 3D panel
• Added Turbo as a gradient option for coloring point clouds
• Implemented preloading for ROS 2 bags and PX4 ULogs
• Added support for adjusting mesh marker alpha transparency to the 3D panel
• Added a time display above the playback bar on hover
• Added a Help sidebar tab with links to panel documentation and other resources

Changed

• Simplified the Plot panel's tooltip to show only the series name and data
• Renamed Rosout panel to Log panel
• Enabled field matching for all message path syntax input fields by default
• Removed polygon drawing feature from 3D panel
• Removed the Cruise car model from the 3D panel
• Added a "404" indicator when mesh markers are used but fail to load
• Removed behavior where adding a panel to the layout automatically opened the Panel settings sidebar

Fixed

• Updated ROS 1 native connector to use utf-8 instead of non-standard utf8 encoding in xmlrpc
• Surfaced a useful error when opening a new sibling panel via the Extensions API with a type that doesn't exist
• Fixed a bug where changing the timezone to "Detect from system" would temporarily display times in UTC
• Made the Log panel's toolbar static to fix the jumping dropdown menu
• Fixed a crash when adding a panel to a newly created Tab panel in certain cases

Added

• Added button for downloading plot data as a CSV file in the Plot panel
• Added support for using ROS package:// URLs in mesh markers' mesh_resource fields
• Added support for loading .stl files for mesh markers' mesh_resource fields
• Added an addPanel method to extensions API to open or update panels in the layout

Changed

• Made it possible for the Layouts sidebar's sign in prompt to be dismissed
• Surfaced an error message indicating that the app only supports loading one bag file when user tries to load a second ROS1 bag file
• Displayed GPS points in different colors with surrounding circles of varying diameters to represent their validity and accuracy in the Map panel
• For arrays in the Raw Messages panel, replaced button that logs data to the console with a copy icon that copies data to the clipboard
• Set defaults for all Publish panel config fields and marked them as optional
• Changed the extensions API to make advertise, unadvertise, and publish into optional methods; disabled Teleop panel when data source does not support publishing
• Improved the user experience for adding panels, in rare cases when there is no currently selected layout

Fixes

• Improved .msg definition parsing to fix errors with empty string constants (ROS 1) and unquoted string constants (ROS 2), and add support for string array default values (ROS 2)
• Fixed an issue where adding a Map panel after opening a bag file didn't properly display all points
• Fixed a bug where rotated OccupancyGrids appearing squashed in the 3D panel
• Fixed an issue where spurious errors were displayed when syncing layouts on app load

Fixed

• Fixed another issue where font fallbacks caused app crashes on Windows
• Removed non-standard deprecated marker types FILLED_POLYGON and OVERLAY_ICON

We've implemented two customer-requested tickets that we're excited to see out in the wild – more powerful topic name and message field searching, and the ability to load 3D models in the 3D panel's scene.

Added

• Added ability to search for both topics and message fields in the message path input behind an Experimental Feature flag ( Include fields names in message path search)
• Added panel setting to sync and unsync Plot panels with timestamp-based x-axes with others in the layout
• Added support for displaying int64 and uint64 values in the Plot and State Transitions panels
• Added support for loading glTF (.glb) files via a marker's mesh_resource field in the 3D panel

Changed

• Changed appearance of floating toolbars in the 3D and Topic Graph panels due to Fluent UI refactor

Fixed

• Fixed bug where the app would sometimes crash on Windows due to font loading issues

We now sync your layouts to cloud storage when you sign in to a Foxglove account. In addition to syncing your personal layouts across multiple devices, you can also collaborate on Team Layouts with your robotics organization.

Added

• Added link to License and Privacy Policy from Help menu
• Added a confirmation step before reverting user changes to a layout
• Added ability to toggle individual topics in the Map panel's display
• Added support for ROS2 Foxy to the ROS2 native connector

Changed

• Made miscellaneous copy edits and improvements to docs
• Improved the Node Playground panel's Unhandled node kind error to include more useful details

Fixed

• Made the header's background color and font size in the Diagnostic Summary panel consistent
• Improved performance of the Raw Messages panel when viewing large messages

Added

• Added dropdown with diagnostic level filters in Diagnostics Summary panel

Changed

• Updated copy for State Transitions and Plot panel docs
• Linked to external pages for remaining in-app docs
• Hid plot title if not set

Fixed

• Fixed "could not find chart with id" error
• Fixed regression in Plot panel performance