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Foxglove v2.7.0

🛎️ List available services from ROS and custom Foxglove WebSocket connections​

When streaming live data for visualization over the Foxglove bridge, the available services are now listed in the Service Call panel.

☁️ Quickly access recent cloud data sources​

Recently accessed cloud data sources will now show in the "recent sources" list on both the dashboard and the left-hand menu. These sources will be marked with a ☁️ icon.

🔗 Construct shareable links using your device name​

You can now create shareable links using ds.deviceName to refer to data associated with one of your devices using the name you gave it in Foxglove. For example, to create a shareable link that visualizes data from my-device between specified start and end times with the layout ID abc123, use the following parameters:

ds.deviceName=my-device
ds.start=2024-04-18T16:26:41.371Z
ds.end=2024-04-18T16:30:51.055Z
ds.layoutId=abc123

The URL will look like this and can be shared with anyone in the my-org organization:

https://app.foxglove.dev/my-org/view?ds=foxglove-stream&ds.deviceName=my-device&ds.start=2024-04-18T16%3A26%3A41.371Z&ds.end=2024-04-18T16%3A30%3A51.055Z&layoutId=abc123

Note that parameters must be URL encoded, so for example 2024-04-18T16:26:41.371Z becomes 2024-04-18T16%3A26%3A41.371Z.

🍎 Performance gains on macOS​

The Foxglove desktop app on Mac now uses Metal, a high-performance graphics API developed by Apple. By using Metal, we're now able to reduce CPU overhead and get nearly direct access to GPU resources for significant performance gains.

New & Improved
Performance
  • Performance improvements for preloading topics
  • Improved memory estimation to reduce out-of-memory issues with data containing high-frequency signals and large numbers of message fields
Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that resulted in numerous app upgrade notifications on desktop
  • Fixed an issue where double-clicking an MCAP file to open it with the desktop app would not add it to recents
  • Fixed an issue with timeseries plot dataset preloading
  • Fixed an issue with message converters being called more frequently than necessary for preloaded topics
  • Fixed an issue causing some User Scripts to fail
API
  • The retainRecordingsSeconds property for Edge Sites on the /sites API has been updated to intepret 0 as indefinite retention period

Downloads: Linux: deb amd64 arm64, snap amd64 | Windows: Universal | Mac: Universal

Foxglove v2.6.1

This release contains some minor bug fixes.

Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with timeseries plot dataset preloading where some data was truncated when switching layouts

Downloads: Linux: deb amd64 arm64, snap amd64 | Windows: Universal | Mac: Universal

Primary Site v0.0.41

🗂️ Sorting messages by log time​

The inbox listener will now sort messages in files by their log time while importing. This means that if messages are recorded out of order because of multithreading, clock skew, or other reasons, they can still stream back in time-stamp order. See the inbox listener configuration documentation for configuration options.

New & Improved
  • Updated the inbox listener so if a file is provided with an invalid device name or ID, the import will fail immediately rather than being retried repeatedly
  • Added support for importing and streaming MCAP files containing channels with schema ID 0 (no schema)
Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the stream server would exit uncleanly and log an error then the SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT was exceeded while waiting for open requests to complete after being sent SIGTERM

Docs: About | Install | Upgrade

Agent v1.1.3

This release contains minor fixes.

Fixes
  • Fixed and issue where MCAP channels with schema ID 0 (ie. with no schema) were causing an error when imported to an via the Agent

Docs: About, Install | Debian Packages: amd64, arm64 | Binary Files: amd64, arm64

Foxglove v2.6.0

✏️ Renaming Tab panels​

We’ve made it easier to rename Tab panels. The Tab panel can be helpful for organizing complex layouts where you need lots of information at hand without switching layouts.

🚨 Better handling of conflicting message schemas​

Robotic systems are complex and multi-faceted. It’s occasionally possible to accidentally introduce two different versions of the same schema on the same robot system. To help with this, we added friendly error messages that surface in the Problems sidebar when conflicting duplicate schema names are found in an MCAP file and cause replay issues.

New & Improved
  • Added clarifying tooltips to the settings of several panels
Performance
Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where reinstalling a local extension would temporarily clear out the settings editor for custom panels
  • Fixed an issue in the Raw Messages panel where some values were not properly left-aligned
  • Fixed a bug where Global Variables were being initialized as a string containing two quotes ("\"\"")
  • Fixed an issue with opening items from the recent list in multiple windows
  • Fixed an issue where series in the Plot panel with auto-assigned colors would change color when another series was removed
  • Fixed an issue where uploading and then deleting a recording with a key via the /data REST API prevented uploading another recording with the same key ever again
  • Fixed an issue in the Raw Messages panel preventing users from opening items in long arrays one at a time
  • Fixed an issue preventing Foxglove from initializing when many instances of the app with multiple extensions are open
API
  • Added includeData and updatedSince query parameters to the /layouts REST API

Downloads: Linux: deb amd64 arm64, snap amd64 | Windows: Universal | Mac: Universal

Edge Site v0.0.26

This release contains minor improvements.

New & Improved
  • Added the ability for Edge Sites to index MCAP channels written with schema ID 0 (no schema).

Docs: About | Install | Upgrade

Edge Site v0.0.25

This release contains minor improvements and fixes.

New & Improved
  • Validation was added to POST /v1/recordings to return an error status if the deviceName does not match our existing API's validation criteria
Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where garbage collection was not working for Edge Sites with a retention period configured and the site token configured via FOXGLOVE_SITE_TOKEN

Docs: About | Install | Upgrade

Foxglove v2.5.1

This release contains some minor bug fixes.

Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with drag-and-drop that resulted in opening the dragged file too many times
  • The Plot legend now correctly respects math modifiers used in message paths

Foxglove v2.5.0

🤏 Customize table views​

You can now manage and resize table columns on the Device and Event tables to customize how you view your data.

⏱️ RFC 3339 and 24-hour time formats​

Visualization playback now supports displaying timestamps in RFC 3339 (ISO 8601) and 24-hour formats in addition to 12-hour and epoch.

✍️ Renamed NPM package​

When we launched Foxglove 2.0, we dropped the "Studio" name. In keeping with that, we renamed the @foxglove/studio NPM package to @foxglove/extension. Please update your custom extensions to depend on @foxglove/extension to receive future SDK updates.

New & Improved
  • All users on free plans have the “admin” role to simplify how small teams and individuals use Foxglove
  • Improved the discoverability of help text in settings
  • Device name search in UI is now case insensitive
  • When streaming a recording from Foxglove cloud, recording name shows in the app bar
  • Added support for OMG IDL empty structs
  • Added support for FlatBuffer union fields, vectors of unions, and fixed-length arrays
  • FlatBuffer messages fields are now displayed in the order of their id
  • Added the ability to create shareable links using user-defined recordingKey
Performance
  • Made additional memory usage optimizations for the state transition panel
  • Improved the performance of querying Foxglove Events tied to a particular device
  • Performance improvements for parsing FlatBuffer messages
  • Performance improvements for loading recordings
  • Performance improvements for computing message paths used in auto-complete
  • Improved performance of connected-line scatter plots via downsampling
Fixes
  • Fixed a bug on the desktop app where zooming in/out during playback would result in a misaligned app bar
  • Fixed an issue where moving the desktop app between screens with different pixel densities would cause the toolbar to change size
  • ixed an issue where plot panels with no x-axis range configured would cause downsampled data to jitter for some datasets
  • Fixed multiple issues with the “reset view” button behaving incorrectly on the state transition panel
  • Fixed a bug where window controls wouldn't appear in Linux desktop apps before sign in
  • Fixed incorrect message count for topics with multiple MCAP channels
  • Fixed a bug where message fields whose names contain special characters could not be plotted by clicking on the value from the Raw Message panel
  • Prevent layout shifts when hovering over a value in the Raw message panel
  • Fixed an issue causing drift of image annotations on large images when zooming in
  • Fixed an issue preventing markers from being deleted and re-added with the same id
  • Hardware acceleration now works for the Foxglove Snap package
  • Fixed decoding of JSON messages without complete JSON schema definitions
  • Malformed video data no longer causes the image panel to crash