0.6.6 (2010-01-07 )

• urdf

  • fix to make rising and falling fields in calibration element optional

0.6.5 (2010-01-06 )

• Remove use of deprecated rosbuild macros

• robot_state_publisher

  • allow empty joint state vector for publishing of tree with all fixed joints

• urdf

  • Add optional rising and falling attributes to the calibration element inside a joint element

• kdl_parser

  • fix in using namespace

0.6.4 (2009-11-26)

• urdf

  • add visualizer tool for urdf tree
  • root link is always optional, not only when it is called "world"
  • fix bug where sphere init always fails

• robot_state_publisher

  • Also publish the transform from the root link to its children
  • Only warn once when the tree that is provided contains fewer than two segments.

• kdl_parser

  • add check_kdl_parser tool to verify parsing of urdf file

• convex_decomposition:

  • add unzip as dependency

0.6.3 (2009-11-19)

• kdl_parser

  • Fix bug where kdl parser was not using inertia from urdf
  • Add regression test for inertia parsing

• urdf

  • Make all "get" methods const
  • Give better error message when no links were found
  • Generate parse error when visual, collision or inertial is specified but fails to parse

0.6.2 (2009-11-01)

• robot_state_publisher:

  • Set buffer size for joint state to 1. The joint state listener should not keep a buffer.

0.6.1 (2009-10-26)

• robot_state_publisher:

  • remove use of deprecated "~" in parameter names.

  • add include of <cstdio> for g++ 4.4 compatibility

  • Fix warnings in regression tests
  • Increase buffer size for joint state from 1 to 500
  • Deal with an incomplete joint state by trimming corresponding tree branches

• resource_retriever:

  • add include of <stdint.h> for g++ 4.4 compatibility

• urdf:

  • fix bugs in optional/required checks of fields
  • fail parsing if optional field has invalid syntax

0.6.0 (2009-10-07)

• REMOVE deprecated functionality form urdf:

  • parent_link shared pointer of link is removed
  • dom_parser is removed
  • treeFromRobotModel is removed

• resource_retriever got new tutorials.

• The robot model stack is documentation-reviewed

0.5.0 (2009)

• REMOVE deprecated functionality form Kdl parser:

  • xml_parser is removed

• DEPRECATE in urdf:

  • link_parent member variable in Link class is deprecated and replaced by the getParent() method. Once the link_parent member variable is completely removed (in the next release) the memory leak <<Ticket(ros-pkg 2680)>> will be fixed.

0.4.0 (2009)

• DEPRECATE in kdl_parser:

  • treeFromRobotModel is deprecated and replaced by treeFromUrdf
  • dom_parser.h is deprecated (now just points to kdl_parser.h)

• urdf

  • Updated XML format documentation
  • New beginner tutorials to create and parse urdf files
  • Add command line tool to verify urdf file
• API and Doc review: all packages in the robot model stack have been through our API and Doc review process.

0.3.0 (2009)

• DEPRECATE in kdl_parser:

  • xml_parser class is completely deprecated
• Update package documentation for convex_decomposition and ivcon
• Update api documentation of robot_state_publisher and kdl_parser

0.2.0 (2009)

• The robot state publisher now publishes tf message on the /tf topic instead of the /tf_message topic

0.1.0 (2009)

• New urdf package
  • Urdf xml robot description format updated
  • New xml parser and robot model
• New resource retriever package
• Make kdl parser work with new urdf robot description format, and deprecate old kel parser.
• Move packages from mechanism stack to robot model stack
  • kdl parser
  • robot state publisher
  • ivcon
  • convex dec