Px4-autopilot: v1.10.0 Release Notes + Changelog

[mrpollo]

v1.10 Release Notes

It's that time again. We need to band together to bring forward the best release the community can give. Help us represent your work better to the world if you have a feature you worked endless hours, and you think it should be part of the high-level release notes, please let us know in a comment below.

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Please review the changelog and help us identify anything that should be part of the high-level release notes.

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NOTE: This is still considered Work In Progress

Release Notes

Highlights

• DShot Support with Telemetry (PR #12854, Docs)
• 1kHz rate loop (param IMU_GYRO_RATEMAX)
• Cone-based RTL (Docs)
  

  Main Features and Improvements

Migration Guide

• DEPRECATED: Throttle PID Attenuation (TPA) (PR #13208)

  • Deprecated in favor of Thrust Curve compensation.
    

    Multicopter

• Rate integrator improvements (PR #12296)

• Navigator bugfix for setpoint publication (PR #13588)

  VTOL

• VTOL front transition heading handling improvements (PR #12630)

• RTL: By default enable return via landing pattern for deterministic back-transition (PR #12746)
• VTOL GPS fix bank loiter (PR #12778)
• VTOL fix RTL started during front transition (PR #13727)
  

  Fixed Wing

Rover

• Enable Offboard support for Rover position control

  PX4/ECL - Estimators improvement

• Mag inconsistency check (PR #12334)

  PX4/Drivers

• UAVCAN sensor drivers for battery and optical flow

  Computer Vision & Autonomy

PX4/Avoidance

• Safe Landing Planner

• Collision Prevention Improvements

  Simulation

• Simulation-In-Hardware (PR #11835, Docs)

• jMAVSim headless/no-GUI option (jMAVSim PR #105)

  Logging improvements

• AUX1-RC-channel-based logging via SDLOG_MODE (PR #12100)

• Logging of system bootup messages, and dmesg tool (on boards with enough RAM) (PR #11792)

  Onboard computer / middleware improvements

• Bugfixes in uORB topic initialization (PR #13589)

  Failsafe / commander improvements

• Bugfixes for failsafe corner cases (PRs #13143, #13294)

  OS/NuttX

The release includes a change from NuttX-7.28 to NuttX-7.29
See NuttX release notes for the details of changes in NuttX-7.29 details.

Included as backports are:

• STM32:F7 i2C fixes
  
  
  
  • State and interrupt storm fixes.
  
  
• Serial Single wire mode has moved to NuttX
• Fix for "z" in printf
• kinetis:i2c transfer ensure correct result returned.
• kinetis_i2c_transfer released the mutex then fetched the state, this resulted in returning the correct results.
• STM32F4 and STM32F7 SD card hang on card eject fixed
• stm32f7:ethernet add timeout on MAC reset

Updated Supported Hardware

• Holybro Kakute F7 board support (PR #12440, Docs)
• Kopis 2 Airframe configuration (PR #12549)

v.1.10.0 Changelog

https://gist.github.com/mrpollo/3af778f7f6cdbad1f0433ba18b4b7204

[bkueng]

@mrpollo what is the difference to this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6agfdgzk0SfvW61l3vbsMTBj7nT-JIaKsf5hQFs69E/edit?pli=1?

[mrpollo]

Good catch @bkueng, let's try to keep this issue as the source of truth, we can port over any missing info from the doc.

cc @jinger26

[mrpollo]

@davids5 I updated the release notes per your comment on Slack, thanks for your help.

Can you please make sure I got the links right?

[davids5]

@mrpollo - Thank you. minor changes - Done

[RomanBapst]

@mrpollo I updated the vtol section.

[bkueng]

Thanks @mrpollo

[MaEtUgR]

@mrpollo Nice! I added a comment about TPA for migration.
EDIT: and mag inconsistency check improvement.

[julianoes]

@dagar I think we should mention all the VSCode support.

[ThomasRigi]

@mrpollo can you add #12778 to the failsafe bugfixes?

[mrpollo]

Thanks @ThomasRigi I added your fix to the release notes.

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[mrpollo]

Hey Mr stable bot, how timely of you. ⏱