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

Our engineers spent the week on an expedition deep into our chart rendering code. I think we could call it a success! Somehow, they managed to also build a few shiny new features at the same time...

Added

• New Map panel
• New Topic Graph panel
• New grid layer in the 3D panel
• Ability to customize the 3D panel background with ColorRGBA messages
• Support for loading 3D panel TFs from any topic
• Node Playground can now learn TFs from MarkerArray messages
• Support for ROS topics that don't start with /
• New time zone setting
• UI to opt out of telemetry & crash reporting

Changed

• Way better Plot panel performance
• Use /clock for currentTime if available on native ROS connections
• Improved topic selector UX in the Image panel
• Better error messages for remote bags

Fixed

• Fixed app crash on some Windows machines due to off screen font loading
• Fixed dragging panels from the Add Panel menu
• Fixed 3D panel breaking after reconnecting an external display
• Fixed click-to-seek functionality in Plot panel
• Inform ROS master when unsubscribing from a topic
• Node Playground was broken due to loading wasm from shared workers
• Fixed silent getUserDefault error on non-macOS platforms
• Fixed automatically inferred transforms for some point clouds
• Fixed "split panel" action for panels with no config

Internals

• New high-performance lazy ROS message parser
• Fixed an issue with hot reloading icons
• Moved default panel configuration into each panel
• Updated sample-robot-docker to work on macOS
• Better capturing of errors from shared workers
• Upgraded electron, fixing several issues including missing source maps
• Fixed storybook delays
• Automatically merge dependabot updates
• Split app/util/hooks.tsx into separate files
• Added Windows git checkout to CI
• Replace PopperJS with FluentUI tooltips
• Added logging support to @foxglove/ros1
• Replaced custom Dimensions component with react-resize-detector
• Fixed wasm-bz2 unit tests on Windows
• Fixed many @typescript-eslint/strict-boolean-expressions and missing return types
• Added typescript-plugin-styled-components for improved CSS class names
• Added release tracking to Sentry error reports

Our robots have been hard at work attempting to press buttons on keyboards, and it appears to have resulted in new features.

Added

• We can now render raw Velodyne point clouds (velodyne_msgs/VelodyneScan messages from /velodyne_packets topic) in Foxglove, without them needing to be converted into sensor_msgs/PointCloud2. This makes it possible to visualize point clouds from additional open source datasets such as the Udacity Self Driving Car dataset.
• Support for unpublished transforms referenced in point clouds, and transforms with missing parents
• Support for all sensor_msgs/PointCloud2 field data types
• Support for older style tf/tfMessage transforms
• Added a "repeat" toggle to enable/disable repeat during bag playback
• Added new telemetry.crashReportingEnabled preference

Changed

• Automatic x-axis sync in Plot and State Transition panels
• Integrated @fluentui/react component library, with some minor icon other UI changes
• Auto-hide menu bar on Linux and Windows
• Remember last URL for ROS and bag connections

Fixed

• Fixed several issues with Node Playground
• Fixed native file system integration (double click to open bag)
• Fixed errors attempting to publish to empty topics
• Fixed support for bags with unaligned Float32Array
• Minor improvements to how we handle some errors
• Cleaned up menu warnings in the developer console

Internals

• New @foxglove/velodyne-cloud package for working with raw Velodyne packets in TypeScript
• New @foxglove/log package
• Upgraded chart.js to v3, moved off a custom fork, and rewrote most of the Plot and State Transitions panels in the process
• Upgraded react-mosaic-component and moved off a custom fork
• Replaced react-spring with react-transition-group

Happy release day! We're excited to bring you a selection of new treats:

Added

• Native ROS 1 connection support! You can now connect directly to a running rosmaster, without needing to run the rosbridge_server WebSocket node (which is still fully supported).
• Better timestamp formatting in the 3D panel
• Hid the playback bar when connected to a live robot
• Moved Electron Developer Tools under View -> Advanced menu
• Added support for nav_msgs/Path
• Added telemetry (opt-out available in settings.json)

Changed

• Opening bags compressed with bz2 is at least 2x faster
• Improvements to keyboard shortcuts and undo/redo handling
• Always use dark mode if the OS supports it, to match our app theme
• Keep layout menu open after deleting a layout
• Renamed WebSocket to Rosbridge in the UI
• Lots more refactoring and improvements under the hood!

Fixed

• Many improvements to error handling around new connections
• Fixed bug when displaying unknown panels
• Fixed markers not being properly deselected
• Fixed table color inheritance

Removed

• Removed the 2D Plot panel. This had overlapping features with the existing Plot panel (not to mention a confusing name), and we plan to merge their features.