We've redesigned Foxglove's navigation to make it easier than ever for you to explore your robotics data.

Added

• Added support for byte array parameters in the Foxglove WebSocket connections
• Added support for message paths with math modifiers in panel settings

Changed

• Improved error message when loading corrupt and large MCAP files

Fixed

• Fixed an issue in the 3D panel where seeking back to the beginning of a file would not clear the scene
• Fixed incorrect display of outdated errors in the 3D panel settings
• Improved the behavior of GeoJSON labels in the Map panel
• Fixed LinePrimitive memory usage and performance in the 3D panel
• Fixed an issue in the 3D panel where the last scan on a LaserScan topic would remain visible when toggling the topic off in the panel settings
• Fixed display of the event creation button when streaming recordings from Foxglove

Fixed

• Fixed flickering in the Diagnostics – Summary panel when the list is too long

Added

• Added Japanese language support
• Added key value quick-view in Raw message panel

Changed

• Improve plot panel performance
• Improve panel settings text input interactivity
• Refactor problems list to avoid modal
• Rename split panel text

Fixed

• Fixed incorrect placeholder text for PosesInFrame Axis Scale
• Fixed TextAnnotations in a message without any circles or points
• Fixed collada meshes being displayed with wrong color
• Fixed an issue with timeline scrubbing on non-time based plots
• Fixed an issue where ROS Markers using the TRIANGLE_LIST type would fail to render when the number of triangles changed
• Fixed memory leak in UserNodePlayer

Added

• Added support for foxglove.TextAnnotation in Image panel

Changed

• Remember playback loop setting across app reload
• Better error messages when an incorrectly serialized flatbuffer message is encountered

Fixed

• Fixed playback for unindexed local mcap files
• Fixed a crash in the plot panel when working with Float64 max values
• Fixed cutoff error messages in user script editor
• Fixed occasional camera info missing errors on app reload

Changed

• Improved behavior of the Plot panel in low memory conditions

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where time and duration types in Protobuf data were deserialized differently from other encodings, which could lead to errors
• Fixed crashes in the User Scripts panel
• Fixed an issue where some panels might lose visualization when changing topics in other panels
• Fixed foxglove.Grid and OccupancyGrid topics causing crashes in the 3D panel

Added

• Added support for bigints in Protobuf data sources by preserving 64-bit integers, instead of rounding them to 53-bit integers

Fixed

• Fixed image rendering in the 3D panel
• Fixed LIDAR point size minimum in the 3D panel settings
• Fixed inefficient memory usage in the app when reading bag data

Added

• Added Chinese translations for the Log, Plot, and 3D panels, sidebar’s data source info, and welcome dialog
• Added ability to toggle marker wireframes in the 3D panel

Changed

• Display a useful error modal when someone tries to connect to a [ws://non-localhost](ws://non-localhost%60/) URL over an HTTPS connection

Fixed

• Fixed shortcut for clicking to select multiple panels
• Fixed objects disappearing when playing after changing topic visibility in the 3D panel
• Fixed issue with subscribing to camera calibration topics in the Image panel

Added

• Added support for displaying enum names in arrays in the Raw Messages panel
• Added Chinese translations for the panel list

Changed

• Moved the Preferences interface from the sidebar to a modal
• Improved layout switching performance when user scripts are present
• Improved user script types library generation performance
• Hid the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH setting in the web app

Fixed

• Fixed message path input autocomplete placement when the input is near the bottom of the screen
• Fixed issue with multi-selecting layouts
• Fixed a crash when viewing panel settings for an unknown panel type
• Fixed follow mode from centering on root frame when display frame does not exist
• Fixed URLs to the account settings
• Fixed an issue with the Plot panel’s y-axis jittering
• Fixed an issue with double-clicking to open files (.bag, .mcap, etc.) in the desktop app
• Fixed the display of grids when no transforms are present in the 3D panel
• Fixed zoom and scroll behavior for the State Transitions panel when series values are outside of the viewport
• Fixed issue with Foxglove WebSocket not reconnecting when server restarts

Changed

• Removed the deprecated URDF Viewer panel

Fixed

• Fixed issues with updating the State Transitions panel’s settings
• Fixed jittering in the 3D panel caused by certain transforms being incorrectly cleared from the transform tree
• Fixed seek back behavior to clear the transform tree
• Fixed an issue with reading GeoJSON messages in the Map panel

Added

• Added support for displaying GeoJSON feature names in the Map panel
• Added support for displaying foxglove.FrameTransforms messages in the 3D panel
• Added support for publishing typed arrays via the extension API

Changed

• Moved the native ROS 2 data connection option behind a feature flag
• Hide the Plot panel legend entirely when the legend position is set to “Hidden" in the panel settings
• Migrated the State Transitions panel’s settings to the sidebar
• Improved logging of the Foxglove WebSocket connection’s status events
• Added custom series labels to the Plot panel’s tooltips
• Surfaced issues reported by the Foxglove WebSocket connection servers

Fixed

• Fixed issues decoding ROS 2 IDL schema messages that contain double values
• Fixed an issue with accessing certain field names in native ROS 1 connections
• Fixed the default settings for displaying occupancy grids in the 3D panel