This is a patch release with no new features since v0.13.0. Some of the release binaries for v0.13.0 were incorrect, so we have re-published the correct binaries under a new version number.

We're excited to announce the alpha release of Foxglove extensions!

Added

• Added support for installing .foxe files as extensions, with all available extensions displayed in a sidebar tab

• New API for panel extensions

  

• Added a macOS Quick Look preview extension for .bag files, with details about topics

Changed

• Use FluentUI's slider component in the Variable Slider panel
• Moved Layouts list into the sidebar
• Show an error in message path input when using an unsupported math modifier

Fixed

• Fixed a bug leading to a blank 3D panel when rearranging layouts
• Fixed a performance issue in the Plot panel when it was first opened
• Fixed the "X range" setting in Plot panel so the view correctly follows playback with the specified width
• Fixed an issue where Node Playground nodes would receive empty input messages
• Fixed renaming and deleting nodes in Node Playground

Internals

• Performance improvement when loading bag files
• Add templates for pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests
• Ongoing work to support shared layouts
• Fix more lint warnings
• Add theme colors to storybook

We've reorganized our repo for optimized web and desktop builds, migrated our Redux store to React contexts, and addressed miscellaneous bug fixes and feature requests.

Added

• Duplicate a layout in the Layouts menu
• Display the appropriate dev mode app icon on Windows
• Reduce bundle size by only supporting JSON (vs. JSON and YAML) for the 3D panel's camera info and polygon editing feature

Fixed

• Align Connection menu items
• Fix the 3D panel's ability to save CameraInfo
• Support all known datatype prefixes (i.e. visualization_msgs/, webviz_msgs/, foxglove_msgs/, and studio_msgs/) for ImageMarkerArray
• Support consistent header stamp extraction across the app, including for ImageMarkerArray
• Fixed the Plot panel's chart component from going blank after user interactions, like resizing or clicking

Internals

• Minify production builds to reduce CI integration test run time
• Update roslibjs, Typescript, and wasm-lz4
• Update linting rules, and fix resulting warnings
• Removed unused internal debugging panels: Number of Renders, Subscribe to List
• Remove Redux after moving all relevant state to React contexts
• Reorganized app code and Foxglove packages as top-level folders in the packages/ directory

macOS users: Please download the dmg file. The zip file is for automatic updates and cannot be installed directly.

Fixed​

• Fixed layout undo/redo functionality
• Fixed incorrect panel settings being saved

Internals​

• Ongoing work to support panel extensions
• Ongoing work to support shared layouts

Most notably in this release, we added the ability to publish messages using the ROS 1 native connection. The dream of integrated robotics visualization & control is getting closer! For now, our Publish panel is pretty basic, but this opens up the ability for extensions to create more complex control panels.

Added​

• Ability to publish messages using ROS 1 native connection
• Ability to publish common ROS messages from Node Playground without existing message definitions
• Support custom image zoom
• Support 8UC3 image encoding
• App setting to reduce framerate
• Add File->Preferences and Help->About menus on Linux & Windows
• Add support for foxglove_msgs/ImageMarkerArray

Fixed​

• Fix "New Node" button rendering in Node Playground
• Remove warning for subscribing right after player loaded (
• Fix "Provider topics should not change often" warning
• Fix occupancy grid rendering in 3d panel
• Fix marker with linked variables error in 3d panel
• Fixed several issues and warnings with image panel

Internals​

• Ongoing improvements to browser support
• Ongoing work to support panel extensions
• Rename @foxglove-studio/app to @foxglove/studio-base
• Merge redundant loadLayout and importPanelLayout actions
• Consolidate use of micro-memoize with memoize-weak
• Add @foxglove/rosmsg package
• Switch Rosbridge player to use lazy messages
• Replace rc-color-picker with FluentUI color picker
• Move layout from redux to CurrentLayoutContext
• Speed up lint with a single tsconfig

We're excited to share with you our new branding!

Changed​

• New app icon and colors

Fixed​

• Fix "cannot find chart with id" errors
• Fix creating new window from dock in macOS
• Fix missing data in table panel
• Fix analytics settings

Internals​

• Ongoing work to support web build

Mostly just squashing a few bugs - always nice to get the fixes out as soon as possible! 🪲

Added​

• Allow adjusting min/max values for mono16 depth images

Changed​

• Move 3D panel settings to sidebar
• Move Plot panel settings to sidebar

Fixed​

• Fix crash on Windows HiDPI screens with Plot panel
• Fix error when inverted min/max values were entered for Plot panel
• Fix broken Plot panel x-axis range setting
• Fix loading a second bag by holding Shift while drag & dropping

Internals​

• Load new Foxglove windows when created via File menu
• Fix some @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any warnings

✨ This week we have a brand new sidebar UI to show off. We think it's a better way to connect to a data source, add panels, and manage your global variables, without covering your existing panels. Try it out and let us know what you think! ✨

Added​

• New sidebar UI

Changed​

• Use system fonts instead of Inter UI

Fixed​

• Fix very slow startup time on some macOS systems caused by getMachineId
• Fix rosparam subscriptions when new parameters are added to a running system
• Fix loading spinner showing after refreshing app
• Fix app crash when atteempting to use Publish panel with ROS 1 native connection
• Fix scrollbars hiding text on the error modal

Internals​

• Add new @foxglove/hooks package
• Separate renderer entrypoints from app
• Replace text-width with text-metrics
• Disable Cytoscape warnings in Topic Graph
• Remove remaining references to webviz
• Load app settings synchronously at startup
• Disable sentry breadcrumbs
• Fix @typescript-eslint/prefer-nullish-coalescing lint warnings
• Move experimental features to app settings
• Add NativeAppMenuContext

Lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, and under-the-hood improvements this week.

Added​

• Ability to set ROS_HOSTNAME in preferences
• New toolbar, layout options, and other settings for Topic Graph panel

Changed​

• Complete rework of how we handle and present connection errors
• Improved app initialization performance
• Improved panel rendering performance
• Show preview while dragging panels
• Set minimum window size

Fixed​

• Gracefully handle ROS connection failures
• Fixed app crash when Publish panel used with Rosbridge connections
• Improved URDF error handling
• Fixed ROS connection dialog appearing on refresh
• Fixed app re-intializing when switching to fullscreen on macOS
• Added mDNS caching, preventing timeouts/DoS for local network robots
• Better errors when unsupported file types are dragged into the app
• Fixed rendering of playback bar during resize
• Fixed line breaks not rendering in 3D panel Object Details
• Resume playback when spacebar pressed

Removed​

• Removed Global Variables panel (redundant since there is already a top-level dropdown)

Internals​

• Remove bobjects, use LazyMessageReader instead
• Remove indexdb data provider
• Improve jest performance
• Replace react-cytoscapejs with our own component
• Replace Message with MessageEvent in Panel API
• Fixed many lint warnings
• Check for Git LFS before running yarn
• Better cross-platform support for ros1-turtlesim-docker
• Moved TypeScript typings to separate @foxglove/types package

Friday afternoon is always the best time to push out a release! 🔥

Added​

• Added new URDF panel
• Added new ROS Parameters panel
• Added foxglove:// URL handler

Changed​

• Allow higher zoom levels for the map panel
• Use app timezone setting in the playback bar
• Panels are no longer selected on every click

Fixed​

• Fix TCP connections to mDNS hostnames (helpful for Duckiebot and other robots on your local network)

Internals​

• Panel rendering performance improvements
• Enable React.StrictMode for new panels
• Set sample-robot-docker hostname
• Replace react-select with FluentUI in Rosout panel
• Replace babel-loader with react-refresh-typescript