v0.2.3

Major features and improvements:

• Nav module improvements by @aclegg3:
  • NavMesh islands added to API in #1866
  • islands topdown map in #1903
  • NavMeshSettings JSON serialization in #1883
  • improved documentation in #1850
• Batched Renderer prototype by @mosra and @0mdc in #1904 ,#1798, #1874, #1961
• Add rolling and spinning friction coefficient parameters by @aclegg3 in #1845
• Document SceneDataset JSON config system by @aclegg3 in #1863
• Added settings.py to habitat_sim.utils by @jaraujo98 and @aclegg3 in #1832, #1879, #1949
• Robots module moved to Habitat-lab by @zachavis in #1790

Other improvements and bug fixes:

Datasets

• update to HM3D v0.2 by @aclegg3 in #1910, #1916, #1927
• add Franka download by @laikhtewari in #1837
• add Spot download by @jimmytyyang in #1885
• add Stretch download by @jimmytyyang in #1936
• updated Fetch assets by @ASzot in #1959

Bugfixes

• remove direct usage of hsim_bindings for audio and fix missing reexports by @Skylion007 in #1788
• viewer.py navmesh recompute skip for "none" scene by @aclegg3 in #1809
• Gfx-replay and JSON serialization fixes by @eundersander in #1758
• declare allocator in IOTest by @aclegg3 in #1816
• add mp3d_example scene dataset config to the tutorials by @aclegg3 in #1847
• minor fix to viewer text string creation for semantic labels by @aclegg3 in #1859
• remove an extra tmp copy of lightsetup in Simulator.cpp by @Skylion007 in #1867
• prevent unnecessary copies with more std::move and emplace by @Skylion007 in #1870
• support habitat-lab requirements.txt after split by @aclegg3 in #1890
• assorted fixes for more robust handling of asset corner cases by @mosra in #1915
• don't give up when encountering lines/points/... in collision mesh data by @mosra in #1888
• skip non-triangle mesh primitives in mesh join for navmesh recomputation by @aclegg3 in #1951

CI

• updating docs should wait until lab-build is complete by @aclegg3 in #1826
• fix nightly conda preserve_egg_dir by @aclegg3 in #1844
• fix ci pytorch cuda by @aclegg3 in #1946
• don't cache habitat-lab by @aclegg3 in #1952

Other

Documentation

• adding instructions on how to build docs by @vincentpierre in #1779
• update citation by @ChanganVR in #1787
• Documenting habitat test scenes and pointnav episodes by @srama2512 in #1821
• making README consistent with Habitat-Lab readme by @dhruvbatra in #1830
• Better colors for "info" and "success" notes in the documentation and website by @mosra in #1893
• changed header from facebook to meta platforms by @NakuraMino in #1913
• add comment blocks by @NakuraMino in #1917
• README updates in #1957, #1955, #1962

Corrade | Magnum

• update Corrade and Magnum with prefixed CMake options by @mosra in #1797
• update Magnum to latest & fix various minor buildsystem issues by @mosra in #1819
• update to Magnum with initial support for glTF export and CPU feature dispatch by @mosra in #1834
• update to Magnum with windowed EGL support; better static plugin linking for Python by @mosra in #1861
• allow GLX to still be used if EGL doesn't work for whatever reason by @mosra in #1877
• update Magnum submodules with support for querying MeshData size from Python by @mosra in #1878
• update Doxygen tagfiles and Python inventories for Corrade/Magnum doc crosslinking by @mosra in #1889
• update Magnum submodules to latest, fix AssimpImporter assertion by @mosra in #1911

Infra Improvements

• [mypy] - ignore erroneous type warning in new imageio version. by @aclegg3 in #1817
• update pybind11 to v2.10.0 by @Skylion007 in #1815
• add build info to pytest_report_header by @Skylion007 in #1806
• chore: optimize src/esp by removing temporaries by @Skylion007 in #1835
• hhore: Remove unnecessary casts from SensorSpec bindings by @Skylion007 in #1858
• refactor GfxReplayTest::testSimulatorIntegration by @0mdc in #1855
• random "header hygiene" cleanups by @mosra in #1880
• temporarily work around lost code coverage reports by @mosra in #1892
• better check of type before converting vector to quaternion by @vincentpierre in #1896
• update pybind11 to v2.10.1 by @Skylion007 in #1926
• (perf): Improve codebase by adding std::move on last use of object by @Skylion007 in #1930
• (perf): add another missing move in pathfinder by @Skylion007 in #1931
• chore: Add a few missing std::move to shared_ptr. by @Skylion007 in #1954
• serialize lights into gfx-replay json format. by @0mdc in #1857
• properly handle non-indexed collision meshes by @mosra in #1876
• update rlr-audio-propagation dependency to main by @aclegg3 in #1923

Viewer Application:

• port stage_requires_lighting arg to python viewer by @aclegg3 in #1807
• viewer py add magnum text by @jrreyna in #1862
• use Magnum's builtin text rendering instead of ImGui; expose it in Python by @mosra in #1853

New Contributors

• @zachavis made their first contribution in #1790
• @ChanganVR made their first contribution in #1787
• @laikhtewari made their first contribution in #1837
• @jaraujo98 made their first contribution in #1832
• @0mdc made their first contribution in #1855
• @jrreyna made their first contribution in #1862
• @jimmytyyang made their first contribution in #1885
• @NakuraMino made their first contribution in #1913

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3