This page lists changes that were made in the pre-1.0 series of common (unstable).

0.9.1 (2010-01-08)

• actionlib added typename keyword for Ubuntu Hardy compatibility

0.9.0 (2010-01-08)

• removed fltk rosdep definitions for they are in ros/rosdep.yaml
• removed netpbm rosdep definitions for they are now in navigation/rosdep.yaml

• filters Added parameter namespace printout for errors and debugging when loading #3239

• xacro

  • Xacro now adds a message mentioning that the file was autogenerated.
  • Patched to not depend on roslaunch #3451

• actionlib

  • Python clients now have get_goal_status_text to read the status message sent by the server #3345

  • SimpleActionClient now deletes the goal handle before deleting its ActionClient #3523

  • Python action server now removes the goal handles after they were processed and timed out.

0.7.3 2009-12-09

• actionlib

  • Added a sleep in python client's wait_for_server call to prevent a boot-up race condition.

0.7.2 2009-12-09

• filters

  • renamed TransferFunctionFilter class to MultiChannelTransferFunctionFilter class

  • created SingleChannelTransferFunctionFilter class

  • deprecated TransferFunctionFilter class

• xacro

  • Integers stay integers in xacro, fixing #3287
  • Remove use of deprecated rosbuild macros

• pluginlib

  • Remove use of deprecated rosbuild macros

• actionlib

  • Added ability to send informative text over status when transitioning a goal to a terminal state
  • Fixed a bug with the cancelAllGoals call

  • Removed deprecated ros calls to getSubscriberID() #3354

0.7.1 2009-11-24

• xacro

  • Added a flag for only evaluating include tags in xacro
  • Allowing multiple blocks and multiple insert_blocks, fixing #3322 and #3323

0.7.0 (2009-11-20)

• Adding a blocking call for sending goals (actionlib::SimpleActionClient::sendGoalAndWait). This feature is still unstable & experimental

• Added a shutdown method to the actionlib actionlib::SimpleActionServer allowing users to explicitly tell the server to shutdown

• No longer relying on header.stamp fields to autofill with ros::Time::now() (in both C++ and Python).

• Fixed race condition in C++ client causing spurious "Tried to create a handle to a list elem with refcount 0" errors

• Created a Python action server and simple action server, mirroring the functionality of the C++ [simple] action server.

• Adding explicit copy constructor and equals operator to ServerGoalHandle

0.6.1 2009-10-29

• filters patch for karmic compilation

0.6.0 2009-10-07

• Remove yaml-cpp package replaced by yaml_cpp in common-0.5.0

• actionlib

  • Removing deprecated version of SimpleActionClient::sendGoal. This only affects users who register a doneCallback when calling sendGoal #3027

  • Shortened names of the python and C++ SimpleActionClient wait_* calls

  • Switched internal references of deprecated ros::SingleSubscriberPublisher::getSubscriberCallerID to getSubscriberName

  • Shortened wait_* method names in the python action client
  • waitForActionServerToStart and waitForGoalToFinish are now waitForServer and waitForResult. #3059

• Moved actionlib_tutorials out of common and into ros_pkg_tutorials

• xacro

  • Added xacro.cmake file that exports new xacro_add_xacro_file() macro, #3020

0.5.1 2009-10-05

• actionlib added missing call to rosbuild_genmsg

0.5.0 2009-10-02

• yaml-cpp renamed to yaml_cpp

  • dashes are not allowed in package names

• actionlib

  • Deprecating SimpleActionClient's getTerminalState() and getGoalState(). Replaced by getState()

  • SimpleActionClient's SimpleDoneCallback now provides a SimpleClientGoalState argument instead of a TerminalState. The TerminalState version is thus deprecated.

  • Deprecating the python SimpleActionClient's get_terminal_state() and get_goal_state(). Replaced by get_state()

  • The done callback passed to Python's SimpleActionClient now takes the terminal state as one of the enumerated constants in actionlib_msgs/GoalStatus

0.4.0 2009-09-28

• tinyxml

  • removed inconsequential patches and updated manifest for doc review #2789

• actionlib

  • Fixed ActionClient compile error when using OSX gcc 4.0.1

  • Fixed unit-test compile error with gcc 4.4. #2811

• pluginlib

  • Added pluginlib::PluginlibException, pluginlib::LibraryLoadException, and pluginlib::CreateClassException exceptions.

  • loadLibraryForClass is now void, but will throw a pluginlib::LibraryLoadException on failure

  • createClassInstacne now throws either a pluginlib::LibraryLoadException or a pluginlib::CreateClassException

0.3.0 (2009-09-21)

• actionlib

  • Fixed compile error in ActionServer constructor

  • Fixed race condition on ClientGoalHandle::reset() call

  • Added basic regression testing for both client and server

  • Bugfixes in ActionClient's waitForServerToStart logic. ros-pkg ticket #2612

  • GoalID's are now [node-name]-[count]-[timestamp] instead of just a timestamp. ros-pkg ticket #2771

• Added temporary OSX blacklist files'

• filters

  • removed (unused) dependency on tinyxml

  • namespace no longer must have filter_chain inserted #2618

    • backwards compatability maintained with a ROS_WARN

• yaml-cpp

  • moved to tarball of version 0.2.2

0.2.0

• Added increment filter to filters package with tests and bugfix exposed by them
• Removed two compiler warnings
• Minor bugfixes for action_lib to meet specifications
• additional actionlib_tutorials