We now sync your layouts to cloud storage when you sign in to a Foxglove account. In addition to syncing your personal layouts across multiple devices, you can also collaborate on Team Layouts with your robotics organization.

Added

• Added link to License and Privacy Policy from Help menu
• Added a confirmation step before reverting user changes to a layout
• Added ability to toggle individual topics in the Map panel's display
• Added support for ROS2 Foxy to the ROS2 native connector

Changed

• Made miscellaneous copy edits and improvements to docs
• Improved the Node Playground panel's Unhandled node kind error to include more useful details

Fixed

• Made the header's background color and font size in the Diagnostic Summary panel consistent
• Improved performance of the Raw Messages panel when viewing large messages

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Added

• Added dropdown with diagnostic level filters in Diagnostics Summary panel

Changed

• Updated copy for State Transitions and Plot panel docs
• Linked to external pages for remaining in-app docs
• Hid plot title if not set

Fixed

• Fixed "could not find chart with id" error
• Fixed regression in Plot panel performance

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Fixed

• Fixed multiple preloaded datasets from overlapping in the State Transitions panel
• Prevented late hover events from triggering when hovering on a Plot panel
• Fixed a crash when loading layouts created with older versions of Foxglove or Webviz

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Added

• Added support for decoding /rosout via native ROS 2 connections
• Added support for clicking on a graph to seek to the corresponding timestamp in the State Transitions panel
• Added preloading support to the State Transitions panel
• Added a vertical line indicating the current playback time in the State Transitions panel
• Added a title setting to the Plot panel

Changed

• Cleaned up styling in the app settings' "Experimental Features" section
• Changed default behavior for time-based Plot panels by keeping their x-axes synced, even after panning or zooming
• Updated docs to link out to external doc pages on foxglove.dev
• Used consistent sentence-casing throughout the app

Fixed

• Fixed topic filter settings in the Topic Graph panel
• Fixed a bug where selecting a message path from the Plot panel's dropdown would replace the wrong text, resulting in an invalid path
• Fixed issue where the user receives an un-actionable message when the playback bar has an invalid range
• Fixed an issue with the tooltip getting stuck open on the playback controls
• Fixed Plot panel tooltip to show data from the nearest point when hovering over a certain x-axis value
• Fixed "Studio Debug Panels" experimental feature flag to hide debugging panels by default
• Improved plot downsampling algorithm to avoid introducing gaps with adjacent datasets
• Fixed issue with native ROS 2 connections not being established correctly due to implicit history size

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Added

• Added beta support for ROS 2 native connections (ROS 2 Rosbridge connections are more battle-tested)
• Added support for loading ROS 2 Eloquent bag files
• Added ability to explicitly save a layout, and to revert a layout to its last explicitly saved state
• Added a clickable file icon in the macOS window titlebar to show the loaded file's location

Changed

• Removed fine-grained undo/redo functionality for layouts in favor of the new ability to revert changes to baseline layout
• Implemented more accurate sampling in the Plot panel for highly variable data points
• Sorted layouts in alphabetical order
• Automatically added a Welcome layout when deleting the last layout

Fixed

• Fixed drag & drop handling of .xacro files
• Fixed layout issues with full screen panels
• Aligned field labels in the Raw Messages panel and the 3D panel's marker details modal
• Fixed plots with a custom (non-timestamp) x-axis from attempting to sync
• Fixed OOM on Linux loading certain bag files
• Improved CPU usage when connected to a live data source
• Improved Plot panel performance when connected to a live data source

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We've added a Teleop panel, as well as support for live ROS 2 Rosbridge Websocket connections!

Added

• Added a Teleop panel to send geometry_msgs/Twist messages with a configurable publish rate
• Added advertise, unadvertise, and publish methods to the panel extensions API
• Added ROS 2 support to panels that support only certain datatypes (e.g. sensor_msgs/msg/Image in addition to sensor_msgs/Image), to improve compatibility with ROS 2 bags, WebSocket connections, and future native connections
• Added a README.md for @foxglove/studio-base
• Added ROS 2 support for Rosbridge WebSocket connections
• Added "Foxglove Studio" after the current data source in the titlebar title

Changed

• Detected host platform to display the correct shortcut key in the Welcome panel
• Added a check to avoid rendering if point cloud field offsets point past the end of the byte array
• Improved error handling for native ROS 1 connection failures, by surfacing them as player problems
• Added a check for the size of ROS 1 messages before deserializing, surfacing failures as player problems or user notifications
• Removed in-app title bar to display connection problems as a badge on the connections icon or as text inside the connections tab

Fixed

• Fixed Legacy Plot to properly display data when read from bags and other data sources using lazy messages
• Display title and axis labels from message on the Legacy Plot
• Fixed ROS 2 message parsing and deserialization, and improved error reporting
• Fixed issue where panels would sometimes disappear from the layout when dragged out of Tab panels
• Fixed an issue with performing mDNS lookups with a @foxglove/electron-socket update
• Filtered the datasets down to the configured view bounds before sending to the Plot panel
• Fixed ROS 1 message decoding regression with a @foxglove/rosmsg-serialization update
• Fixed ROS 1 publishing with @foxglove/ros1 and @foxglove/electron-socket updates
• Fixed State Transitions panel to place chart items under the correct legend item
• Fixed styling on the Plot panel's hover bar to appear consistently on all browsers

Internal

• Removed punycode, a dependency for older libraries with Webpack v4, from appearing in web builds
• Remove unused code
• Migrate to @foxglove/rostime package

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In this release, we focused on bug fixes and making further improvements to app styling.

Changed

• Enabled the Image panel's image markers dropdown, even when their topic name does not match the camera image topic
• Scoped app styling to a top-level app container, instead of applying styles globally

Fixed

• Fixed the Image panel's download feature to download the image at its original size
• Fixed a crash when hovering on int64 or uint64 values inside arrays in the Raw Messages panel
• Fixed a memory leak when attempting to automatically re-establish a connection to a rosbridge WebSocket
• Fixed 3D panel error that appears when turning a topic off after toggling its namespace markers
• Removed outdated Slack channel from Node Playground panel documentation

Internals

• Removed references to global React in the ErrorBoundary component
• Added back the legacy 2D Plot panel under a feature flag
• Deleted unused code from the @foxglove/studio-base package
• Upgraded dependencies, including @foxglove/rosbag
• Updated lint rules to ban the use of the any type in conditionals

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We've migrated more components to use FluentUI, made improvements to our web build, and fixed some outstanding bugs.

Added

• Added browser support message when trying to load web build on unsupported browsers or versions
• Added message encouraging users to install desktop app when they try to install extensions on the web build
• Added a ?demo URL param to the web build to force loading the Welcome layout
• Added a dialog for activating a sign-in code

Changed

• Improved appearance of ErrorBoundary component
• Moved notifications to be displayed in toasts
• Moved the 3D panel's polygon drawing feature behind a feature flag to prepare for deprecation

Fixed

• Fixed React key warnings on tooltips
• Fixed bugs in how the timestamp tooltip appears above playback bar
• Fixed the dropdown menus in 3D panel's topic settings editor to be consistently clickable
• Fixed issue where PointClouds didn't render with non-RGB color fields
• Added back the alpha field for PoseStamped messages' topic settings editor in the 3D panel
• Handled corrupt layouts gracefully by allowing users to switch layouts or add panels from scratch
• Fixed error when dragging and dropping panels into an empty layout
• Fixed React warning for uncontrolled input

Internals

• Added layout storage providers for team shared layouts feature
• Converted player components to use FluentUI
• Added support for ROS 2 Rosbridge (Websocket) connection behind a feature flag
• Removed unused constants
• Added business logic to add a preconfigured panel to layout
• Added web analytics for web build
• Gated layout debugging in dev
• Added tracking for layout management metrics – i.e. adding and removing panels, creating / sharing layouts
• Removed global styles
• Simplified layout API by merging shareLayout and renameLayout into updateLayout
• Renamed rosbag.js to @foxglove/rosbag
• Automated release workflow

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Fixed

• Fixed occasional electron crash on Windows due to monospace fonts

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Added

• Added ability to toggle different groups of topics in the Topic Graph panel
• Enabled loading and playing bags containing topics with empty message definitions
• Displayed banner when opening app.foxglove.dev on an outdated version of Chrome or an unsupported browser
• Added a spinner when lazily loading panels

Changed

• Removed unsupported options to connect to a ROS 1 or Velodyne LIDAR data source in the web build
• Removed experimental feature flag for "Extension Marketplace" to always display extension marketplace in sidebar

Fixed

• Updated rosbag.js to gracefully handle truncated or corrupted bag files

Internals

• Changed panel components to be lazily loaded
• Updated dependencies on internal packages, including @foxglove/ros1, @foxglove/rosbag2-web, @foxglove/rosmsg-msgs-common, @foxglove/rosmsg-msgs-foxglove, and @foxglove/rosmsg-serialization

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