1.7.11 (2012-02-06)

• rosemacs is now distributed separately. See rosemacs page for details.

• Bug fix for import Python messages by name, caused regressions in rostopic <<Ticket(ros 3840)>>

1.7.8 (2012-02-02)

• Removed roscreate-stack, because it doesn't work any more. For now, manage dependencies manually during release (noted in the Migration guide).

• Added PATH-scrubbing to generated setup.sh files to avoid accidentally using old binaries when switching between distros <<Ticket(ros 3832)>>.

1.7.5 (2012-01-19)

• Major: Removing roscreate-stack tool. This tool does not (and cannot) work properly with catkin-based stacks.

• added support for catkin tag to roslib manifest parser

• added catkin tag to mk manifest

• rosmake: when using -a, filter out catkin packages from initial build list to speed up build.

1.7.4 (2012-01-19)

• Fixed ROS_PACKAGE_PATH in env hook (no longer appends)
• Added depend on pkg-config
• move add_gtest, add_pyunit, and add_nosetests to rosunit-extras.cmake
• stack.xml and setup.py now get version numbers from stack.yaml
• don't use rules.em

1.7.3 (2012-01-18)

• nose definition in rosdep.yaml

1.7.2, 1.7.1 (2012-01-18)

• Integration testing releases and bug fixes
• Added Depends on gtest, bzip2, python, and boost

• Added ROS_ETC_DIR and ROS_DISTRO support

• roslib.packages.find_resource() support for catkin build layout

• roslib library cleanup:

  • Removed roslib.substitution_args (now in roslaunch)

  • Removed genpy_electric transitional file

  • Removed roslib.params

• Added <catkin/> tags to manifests and removed <depend> tags

• rosmake

  • Removed whitelist functionality

  • Treat <catkin/> tag as NO_BUILD

• Removed vestigial rules.em
• Numerous bug fixes

1.7.0 (2012-01-18)

Removed many methods in this release from internal APIs. For any routine that we removed, survey was done to see if the method was used; if not, it was removed, otherwise it was deprecated.

• Fedora/Redhat support from felix_k <<Ticket(ros 3616)>>

• mk

  • make the eclipse-project target robust to CMake failures <<Ticket(ros 3738)>>

• rosbuild

  • allow multiple tests of the same launch file <<Ticket(ros 3674)>>

  • deprecate and render non-functional the *_future() test macros <<Ticket(ros 3622)>>

• rosunit: fix and unittests from kruset to handle multiple testsuite accumulation properly <<Ticket(ros 3684)>>

• roslib:

  • rostime: Moved to genpy. Move is necessary to prevent bad type conflicts when exercised through rospy APIs. Preferred use is rospy.Time and rospy.Duration.

  • rosenv:

    • Deprecating

    • Removed on_ros_path()

    • Removed resolve_path()

    • Removed resolve_paths()

  • packages

    • Removed get_package_path()

    • Removed list_pkgs()

  • stacks

    • Removed packages_of()

  • scriptutil:

    • moved internal is_publisher/is_subscriber to rostest

    • Removed ask_and_call()

    • deprecated get_master()

    • deprecated get_param_server()

    • deprecated ask_and_call()

  • rosenv: adding deprecation warning to help rospkg migration

  • Removed roslib.message.ServiceDefinition marker class (survey of released stacks shows only internal use)

• roscreate: porting to rospkg

• rosmake:

  • no longer supports --rosdep options or functionality.

  • ported most APIs to rospkg

  • improved usage message <<Ticket(ros 3725)>>

• rosdep: partial port to rospkg to enable removal of roslib APIs

• rospack: made include guard rospack-specific to avoid trouble with other applications that use tinyxml, <<Ticket(ros 3692)>>