1.4.6

• Solving #84
• Solving #85

1.4.5

Changelog:

• Solving compatibility with recent pybullet version, causing the ROS wrapper to fail. (fixing #79)

1.4.4

Changelog:

• Better handling of error raising for the FSR
• Improving code coverage, and update coverage launch commands in CI
• Specifying Python 3.9 compatibility, solving #64
• Updating the example snippet in the README for more clarity, fixing #69
• Migrating from Gitter to Github discussions (update badge in the README), solving #73
• Updating Doxygen doc (optimized for Python, and new doxygen theme added), solving #72
• Auto generating and deploying doxygen doc from the CI when creating a new qiBullet version, also in the scope of #72
• Automatically packaging and deploying qiBullet to PyPI test and then PyPI when creating a new version

1.4.3

Changelog:

• Add manual stepping for the simulation, both in GUI and DIRECT mode, solving #50
• Migrate CI from Travis to Github actions
• Fix getLinkPosition, solving #57
• Adding an IMU to Pepper, NAO and Romeo, partly solving #61
• General refactoring & optimization, removing spurious code
• Add a way to customize the framerate of a camera when subscribing to it
• Python 3.9 compatibility, solving #60
• Adding a way to set/get the gravity for a specific simulated instance
• Adding FSRs for NAO, solving #61
• Add / update existing examples, and update the qiBullet wiki, solving #61 #62
• Optimize the installers

1.4.2

Changelog:

• Refactor the ROS wrapper classes
• Handle multiple active cameras in the ROS wrapper classes
• Update the Pepper laser example, solving #39
• Fix the robot spawning methods docstrings, solving #43
• Adding a stopMove method, solving #40
• Adding the getLinkPosition method, solving #41
• Adding the getJoint and getLink methods, allowing the user to retrieve links or joints without explicitly using the joint_dict and link_dict directories
• Update the unit tests

1.4.1

Changelog:

• Refactor the camera subscription system, using handles (more than one camera can be used simultaneously)
• Refactoring getAnglesPosition, solving #28
• Refactoring getAnglesVelocity solving #29
• Clarifying ROS driver import message, solving #30
• Update unit tests
• Improve coverage

⚠️ The camera subscription system of qiBullet 1.4.0 (and lesser) is deprecated, use the new system

1.4.0

Changelog:

• ROS wrapper compatible with the softbanlrobotics-research fork AND the official version of naoqi_driver
• New meshes for the Pepper robot (see picture), new texture for the NAO robot
• The ressource files are now tracked with LFS
• Better parallelization for headless mode (using the shared memory server mode, more information in the wiki, see the graph)

1.3.2

Changelog:

• Repository's weblinks modified to match the new name of the organization

1.3.1

Changelog:

• Update the unittests, improve code coverage
• Equal operator overload for Link, Joint and CameraResolution (update) classes
• Update for internal depth camera computation, fixing issue #24
• Catch exceptions when stopping the simulation, fixing issue #11
• Faster computation for getAnglesPosition (see attached figure)
• Additional resources refactoring: installation process for the URDFs and meshes
• Update the CI, remove Python 3.4 (EOL), add Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8

1.3.0

Changelog:

• Update camera handling in the framework
• Compute the exact camera intrinsics in the code
• Update the maximum range of Pepper's lasers to 3.0 meters (more realistic)
• Add multiple RosWrapper class, ROS wrappers are now available for Romeo and Nao
• Clarify README example
• Update the unittests and the CI, add coverage tests
• Update the ROS example

Merry Christmas !