v1.17.0

v1.17.0 – Now Available! 🚀

This release brings exciting new features, UX enhancements, bug fixes, and several dependency updates to improve performance and maintainability.

🚀 New Features & Improvements

• Minimum width to left sidebar #550
• Documentation links updated #553
• Updating large files warning message #552
• Adding brightness and contrast adjustment settings to Image panel #570
• Add web version static files to release #573

🛠 Bug Fixes

• Fix Change panel menu not working properly on touch devices #557 by @Aecric
• Fix empty 'before object' on RawMessage panel #556

🔧 Other Changes

• Feature/Refactor desktop extension handler with tests #542
• Dependencies from dependabot
• And more maintainability changes!!

New Contributors

• @Aecric made their first contribution in #559
  Thank you to our newest contributor for helping improve Lichtblick! As always, we welcome community contributions to keep making this application even better.

Full Changelog: v1.16.0...v1.17.0

v1.16.0

This release is primarily focused on resolving a bug that was making pipelines fail.

• Removed export type because there is an interface on the file and that was causing errors on CI pipelines.

We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the product.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Full Changelog: v1.15.0...v1.16.0

v1.15.0

v1.15.0 – Now Available! 🚀

This release brings exciting new features, UX enhancements, bug fixes, and several dependency updates to improve performance and maintainability.

🚀 New Features & Improvements

• Custom Camera Models via Extensions – Easily add your own camera models for more flexibility in visualization. #508
• Panel Title Customization – You can now set custom titles for panels. #518
• Drag and Drop for Layouts – Simplified layout management with intuitive drag-and-drop support. #522
• "Don't Show This Again" Option on Initial Dialog – Cleaner onboarding experience. #521
• Some UI Improvements. #455
• Feature/configure new E2E Tests. #517

🛠 Bug Fixes

• Mesh Loading Fixes – Corrected loading of mesh resources over ROS_PACKAGE_PATH and improved .glb mesh loading via Foxglove bridge. #474
• Right-Click Layout Menu Fix – Resolved layout-related context menu issues. #520
• Repetitive Extension Loading in Desktop Version. #537
• Multiple Message Converters Registration – Fixed issue when installing extensions that only one message converter would be registered. #544

🔧 Other Changes

• Updated Linting Rules – Upgraded @lichtblick/eslint and applied new header rule. #511
• Electron Bumped to 36.3.2 #525
• Updated Webpack, Babel, Zustand, Storybook, and more dependencies.
• And more maintainability changes!!

New Contributors

Thank you to all our new contributors for helping improve Lichtblick! As always, we welcome community contributions to keep making this application even better.

• @AndreasR30 made their first contribution in #474
• @emmanuel-ferdman made their first contribution in #523
• @ToyYan made their first contribution in #455
• @patrickelectric made their first contribution in #538

Full Changelog: v1.14.0...v1.15.0

v1.14.0

v1.14.0 – Now Available! 🚀

This update brings several enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency updates to improve usability. As always, we welcome community contributions to keep making this application even better!

🚀 New Features & Improvements

• Added readme and changelog to extension details
• Synced application instances (for any questions check out our documentation)
• Added documentation links in the application

🛠 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the desktop version after breaking change of the Electron

🔧 Other Changes

• Dependencies from dependabot

Full Changelog: v1.13.0...v1.14.0

v1.13.0

This release is primarily focused on resolving a couple of important bugs. While there are no new features, these fixes should improve the overall experience:

• Fixed mcap file opening bug: We addressed an issue where users were unable to open mcap file via launch argument functionality, which has now been resolved.

• Linux no longer in unsupported auto-update platforms: We’ve removed Linux from the list of unsupported platforms for auto-updates. This adjustment ensures better compatibility for future updates.

We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the product.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.13.0

v1.12.0

v1.12.0 – Now Available! 🚀

This update brings several enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency updates to improve stability and usability. As always, we welcome community contributions to keep making this application even better!

🚀 New Features & Improvements

• Added RGBA color mode for messages converted to valid PointCloud datatypes
• Warnings update when reading multiple mcaps split with overlapped timestamps
• Improved user experience when loading extensions with session opened
• Renamed tab of Problems to Alerts
• Compressed video support (We'd like to thank @charlielito for this contribution)
• Show enumerator value when viewing arrays in Raw Message panel

🛠 Bug Fixes

• Removed duplicated window button actions for Linux
• Fixed import layout on menu bar
• Fixed sample data
• Fixed rosbag loading
• Fixed name change in layouts
• Fixed user script panel by wrapping on error boundary

🔧 Other Changes

• Bump es lint plugin
• Removed unified navigation from experimental features
• Dependencies from dependabot
• Improve overall documentation
• Removed Git LFS files

Full Changelog: v1.11.0...v1.12.0

v1.11.0

v1.11.0 – Now Available! 🚀

This update brings several enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency updates to improve stability and usability. As always, we welcome community contributions to keep making this application even better!

🚀 New Features & Improvements

• Added timestamp support to CLI arguments
• Improved extension handling 🔥
• Enabled synchronization in the plot panel for all x-axis modes
• Enhanced unit tests for the plot panel
• Added a Documentation section to the README

🛠 Bug Fixes

• Fixed topic filtering in settings tree
• Resolved plot synchronization issues

🔧 Other Changes

• Repository renamed
• Dependencies from dependabot
• Improve overall documentation

Full Changelog: v1.10.0...v1.11.0

v1.10.0

A new release is now available for everyone! 🚀

Our community is welcomed to contribute to the growth and enhancement of this application.

Features included in this version:

🚀 New features:

• Opening multiple MCAPs 🚀

🧪 Increased Test Coverage:

• Added more unit tests

🛠 Bug Fixes and Enhancements:

• Fixed indicator panel issues
• Resolved duplicated header bug
• Addressed undefined behavior in Settings API
• Included vertical window size in font size calculation
• Applied new operators to filters
• Improved visual feedback when managing extensions

📈 Performance and CI Improvements:

• Enabled Sonar checks for story branches
• Migrated CI pipelines to ubuntu-latest
• Added pre-build workflow

📦 Dependency Updates:

• Updated Electron DevTools Installer
• Dependabot upgrades

New Contributors

• @gabriela-almeida-ctw made their first contribution in #378

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v1.10.0

v1.9.0

A new release is now available! 🚀
Our community is welcomed to contribute to the growth and enhancement of this application.

The upgrade was this version was mainly focused on bug fixes, new usability features to improve layout and extension handling and accessibility, adding global variable and updating label visualization in raw message.

We would love to hear your feedback!
Thank you!

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0

v1.8.0

A new release is now available for everyone! 🚀

Our community is welcomed to contribute to the growth and enhancement of this application.

Features included in this version:
💥 Performance improvements 🚀
💥 Fix toggling panels 🚀
💥 Adjustments on preloading topics
💥 3D panel camera sync fixed
💥 Code optimization
💥 Update dependencies to fix vulnerabilities
💥 Increase code coverage with unit tests
💥 Other bug fixes

We would love to hear your feedback!
Thank you!

New Contributors

• @turtle-operator made their first contribution in #179

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0