1.2.3 (Forthcoming)

• actionlib

  • Simple action client no longer calls the feedback callback after the goal finishes. Fixes <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4531)>>

  • Added a cancel goal button for axclient

1.2.2 (2011-01-04)

• actionlib

  • Fix race condition in Python action server. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4554)>>

• nodelet_topic_tools

  • MUX simplified by using a 8-connected null filters
  • DeMUX has a specialization for message type (uses ros::Subscriber internally by default)

• xacro: fixed inserting property blocks <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4561)>>

1.2.1 (2010-09-21)

• actionlib

  • Fixing bug in SimpleActionServer where a goal that came in over the wire after one that had the same timestamp would be recalled.

  • Python action client wait_for_server no longer sleeps for 1 second, the number of publishers is checked instead.
  • Fixing bug in python action servers where status for each goal was published indefinitely.
  • Added axclient.py and axserver.py GUI tools for interacting with and faking actions

  • Fixing compile errors in C++ cancelGoalsAtAndBeforeTime. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4377)>>

  • Fixing debug output typo in C++ SimpleActionClient sendGoalAndWait. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4439)>>

1.2.0 (2010-07-23)

• pluginlib now uses recommended syntax package/name to get rid of global namespace.

  • new macro PLUGINLIB_DECLARE_CLASS(package, name, class, base_class)
  • deprecated macro PLUGINLIB_REGISTER_CLASS(name, class, base_class)

• New Package: nodelet API reviewed provides dynamic loading of multiple nodelets within the same process for high efficiency message passing.

  • there are a number of helper packages which are more experimental and unreviewed such as nodelet_tutorial_math and nodelet_topic_tools

• xacro

  • Raises XacroExceptions instead of strings. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4209)>>

• bfl changed to tarball download

• actionlib

  • Removed deprecated simple action client methods <<Ticket(ros-pkg 3701)>>

    • waitForActionServerToStart
    • waitForGoalToFinish
    • getGoalState
    • getTerminalState
  • waitForResult and waitForServer both no longer busy-wait

  • Python action server & client support namespace remapping to be consistent with C++ implementation <<Ticket(ros-pkg 3873)>>

• filters

  • removed deprecated TransferFunctionFilter. It is replaced by SingleChannelTransferFunctionFilter. #3703

• pluginlib

  • Added getName and isClassAvailable functions to the class loader to help with making early adopter code backwards compatible <<Ticket(ros-pkg 3937)>>

  • Added getRegisteredLibraries() method to get the list of libraries containing plugins. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 3346)>>