1.5.7 (2011-08-01)

• urdf

  • Add missing check_urdf tool that supports both URDF and COLLADA format.

1.5.6 (2011-07-14)

• collada_urdf

  • exporting physics data

1.5.5 (2011-07-13)

• Move to rosdep of assimp

1.5.4 (2011-07-05)

• Move to rosdep of tinyxml

1.5.3 (2011-06-27)

• Major reorganization of the urdf code:

  • New packages urdf_interface, urdf_parser and collada_parser.

  • Clean up dependencies and allow for smooth Collada integration.
  • User API is unchanged

• Add Python resource retriever, provided by David Lu. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4951)>>

1.5.2 (2011-06-01)

• No changes

1.5.1 (2011-05-27)

• robot_state_publisher

  • Fix publish timing for case with multiple joint state sources <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4464)>>. Patch from Ingo Kresse.

1.5.0 (2011-05-24)

• Branch from 1.4.0 release

• urdf

  • Support constructing a C++ URDF model from a Collada description. This API backwards compatible change allows you to replace the xml URDF with an xml Collada file, without modifying any code.

  • Split urdf_parser away from urdf stack.

  • Support multiple <collision> and <visual> for a single link, with optional group name assignments.

• kdl_parser

  • Support constructing a kdl tree directly from a Collada file

• robot_state_publisher

  • Support separate publishing of fixed joints, and joints from different joint state messages <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4464)>>