Rover: 4.6.0-beta1 release notes

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Rover Release Notes:
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Release 4.6.0-beta 13 Nov 2024
Changes from 4.5.7
1) Board specific changes
- AnyLeaf H7 supports compass and onboard logging
- Blitz743Pro supports CAN
- BlueRobotics Navigator supports BMP390 baro
- Bootloader ECC failure check fixed on boards with >128k bootloader space (e.g CubeRed)
- CB Unmanned Stamp H743 support
- ClearSky CSKY405 support
- CUAV-7-Nano default batt monitor fixed
- CubeRed bootloader fixes including disabling 2nd core by default
- CubeRed supports PPP networking between primary and secondary MCU
- CubeRedPrimary supports external compasses
- ESP32 main loop rate improvements
- ESP32 RC input fixes and wifi connection reliability improved
- ESP32 safety switch and GPIO pin support
- FlyingMoon no longer support MAX7456
- Flywoo F405HD-AIOv2 ELRS RX pin pulled high during boot
- Flywoo H743 Pro support
- Flywoo/Goku F405 HD 1-2S ELRS AIO v2
- FlywooF745 supports DPS310 baro
- FPV boards lose SMBus battery support (to save flash)
- GEPRC F745BTHD support
- GEPRCF745BTHD loses parachute support, non-BMP280 baros (to save flash)
- Here4FC bootloader fix for mismatch between RAM0 and periph that could prevent firmware updates
- Holybro Kakute F4 Wing support
- iFlight 2RAW H743 supports onboard logging
- JFB110 supports measuring servo rail voltage
- JFB110 supports safety switch LED
- JHEM-JHEF405 bootloader supports firmware updates via serial
- JHEMCU GF30H743 HD support
- JHEMCU-GF16-F405 autopilot support
- JHEMCU-GSF405A becomes FPV board (to save flash)
- KakuteF7 only supports BMP280 baro (to save flash)
- KakuteH7Mini supports ICM42688 IMU
- Linux auto detection of GPS baud rate fixed
- Linux board scheduler jitter reduced
- Linux board shutdown fixes
- MakeFlyEasy PixPilot-V6Pro support
- MatekF405, Pixhawk1-1M-bdshot, revo-mini loses blended GPS (to save flash)
- MatekH7A3 support Bi-directional DShot
- MicoAir405v2 and MicoAir405Mini support optical flow and OSD
- MicoAir743 internal compass orientation fixed
- MicroAir405Mini, MicroAir743, NxtPX4v2 support
- MicroAir405v2 Bi-directional DShot and LED DMA fixes
- MicroAir405v2 defined as FPV board with reduced features (to save flash)
- ModalAI VOXL2 support including Starling 2 and Starling 2 max
- mRo Control Zero Classic supports servo rail analog input
- mRo KitCAN revC fixed
- Mugin MUPilot support
- OmnibusF7v2 loses quadplane support (to save flash)
- Pixhack-v3 board added (same as fmuv3)
- Pixhawk6C bootloader supports flashing firmware from SD card
- RadiolinkPIX6 imu orientation fixed
- RadiolinkPIX6 supports SPA06 baro
- ReaperF745 V4 FC supports MPU6000 IMU
- RPI5 support
- SDModelH7v2 SERIAL3/7/9_PROTOCOL param defaults changed
- Solo serial ports default to MAVLink1
- SpeedyBeeF405Wing gets Bi-directional DShot
- SpeedyBeeF405WING loses landing gear support, some camera gimbals (to save flash)
- Spektreworks boom board support
- TrueNavPro-G4 SPI does not share DMA
- X-MAV AP-H743v2 support
2) AHRS/EKF enhancements and fixes
- AHRS_OPTION to disable fallback to DCM (affects Plane and Rover, Copter never falls back)
- AHRS_OPTION to disable innovation check for airspeed sensor
- Airspeed sensor health check fixed when using multiple sensors and AHRS affinity
- DCM support for MAV_CMD_EXTERNAL_WIND_ESTIMATE (Plane only)
- EK2 supports disabling external nav (see EK2_OPTIONS)
- EK3 External Nav position jump after switch from Optical flow removed (see EK3_SRC_OPTION=1)
- EK3 uses filtered velocity corrections for IMU position
- EKF2, EKF3, ExternalAHRS all use common origin
- EKF3 accepts set origin even when using GPS
- EKF3 allows earth-frame fields to be estimated with an origin but no GPS
- EKF3 copes better with GPS jamming
- EKF3 logs mag fusion selection to XKFS
- EKF3 wind estimation when using GPS-for-yaw fixed
- External AHRS improvements including handling variances, pre-arm origin check
- Inertial Labs External AHRS fixes
- VectorNav driver fix for handling of error from sensor
- VectorNav External AHRS enhancements including validation of config commands and logging improvements
- VectorNav support for sensors outside VN-100 and VN-300
3) Driver enhancements and bug fixes
- ADSB fix to display last character in status text sent to GCS
- Ainstein LR-D1 radar support
- Airspeed ASP5033 whoami check fixed when autopilot rebooted independently of the sensor
- AIRSPEED message sent to GCS
- Analog temperature sensor extended to 5th order polynomial (see TEMP_A5)
- ARSPD_OPTIONS to report calibration offset to GCS
- Baro EAS2TAS conversions continuously calculated reducing shocks to TECS (Plane only)
- Baro provides improved atmospheric model for high altitude flight
- BARO_ALT_OFFSET slew slowed to keep EKF happy
- BATTx_ESC_MASK param supports flexible mapping of ESCs to batteries
- BATTx_OPTION to not send battery voltage, current, etc to GCS
- Benewake RDS02U radar support
- Bi-directional DShot on IOMCU supports reversible mask
- Bi-directional DShot telemetry support on F103 8Mhz IOMCUs
- BMM350 compass support
- CAN rangefinders and proximity sensors may share a CAN bus (allows NRA24 and MR72 on a single CAN bus)
- Compass calibration world magnetic model checks can use any position source (e.g. not just GPS)
- CRSF baro and vertical speeed fixed
- CRSF RX bind command support
- DroneCAN battery monitor check to avoid memory corruption when type changed
- DroneCAN DNA server fixes including removing use of invalid node IDs, faster ID allocation, elimination of rare inability to save info
- DroneCAN EFI health check fix
- DroneCAN ESC battery monitors calculate consumed mah
- DroneCAN ESCs forced to zero when disarmed
- DroneCAN RPM message support
- DroneCAN timeout fix for auxiliary frames
- DroneCAN to serial tunneling params accepts short-hand baud rates (e.g. '57' for '57600')
- F9P, F10-N and Zed-F9P support for GPSx_GNSS_MODE to turn on/off SBAS, Galileo, Beidou and Glonass
- FuelLevel battery monitor fix to report capacity
- GPS_xxx params renamed to GPS1_xxx, GPS_xxx2 renamed to GPS2_xxx
- Hirth EFI logging includes modified throttle
- Hirth ICEngine supports reversed crank direction (see ICE_OPTIONS parameter)
- Hott and LTM telemetry deprecated (still available through custom build server)
- i-BUS telemetry support
- ICE_PWM_IGN_ON, ICE_PWM_IGN_OFF, ICE_PWM_STRT_ON, ICE_PWM_STRT_OFF replaced with SERVOx_MIN/MAX/REVERSED (Plane only)
- ICE_START_CHAN replaced with RC aux function (Plane only)
- ICEngine retry max added (see ICE_STRT_MX_RTRY)
- IE 2400 generator error message severity to GCS improved
- INA2xx battery monitor support (reads temp, gets MAX_AMPS and SHUNT params)
- MCP9600 temperature sensor I2C address fixed
- MLX90614 temperature sensor support
- MSP GPS ground course scaling fixed
- MSP RC uses scaled RC inputs (fixes issue with RCx_REVERSED having no effect)
- Networking supports reconnection to TCP server or client
- OSD params for adjusting horizontal spacing and vertical extension (see OSD_SB_H_OFS, OSD_SB_V_EXT)
- Relay inverted output support (see RELAYx_INVERTED parameter)
- ROMFS efficiency improvements
- RS-485 driver enable RTS flow control
- Sagetech MXS ADSP altitude fix (now uses abs alt instead of terrain alt)
- Septentrio GPS sat count correctly drops to zero when 255 received
- Septentrio supports selecting constellations (see GPS_GNSS_MODE)
- Single LED for user notification supported
- SPA06 baro supported
- Sum battery monitor optionally reports minimum voltage instead of average
- Sum battery monitor reports average temp
- Torqeedo dual motor support (see TRQ1, TRQ2 params)
- Ublox GPS driver uses 64 bit time for PPS interrupt (avoids possible dropout at 1hour and 12 minutes)
- UBlox GPS time ignored until at least 2D fix
- VideoTX supports additional freq bands (RushFPV 3.3Ghz)
- Volz logs desired and actual position, voltage, current, motor and PCB temp
- Volz server feedback and logging fixed
- Volz servo output in its own thread resulting in smoother movements
- W25N02KV flash support
4) Networking enhancements and fixes
- Allow multiple UDP clients to connect/disconnect/reconnect
- Ethernet supports faster log downloading (raised SDMMC clock limit on H7)
5) Camera and gimbal enhancements
- Alexmos precision improved slightly
- CAMERA_CAPTURE_STATUS mavlink msg sent to GCS (reports when images taken or video recorded, used by QGC)
- CAMERA_FOV_STATUS mavlink reports lat,lon of what camera is pointing at
- DO_MOUNT_CONTROL yaw angle interpreted as body-frame (was incorrectly being interpreted as earth-frame)
- Dual serial camera gimbal mounts fixed
- Lua script bindings to send CAMERA_INFORMATION and VIDEO_STREAM_INFORMATION messages to GCS
- Retract Mount2 aux function added (see RCx_OPTION = 113)
- Servo gimbal reported angles respect roll, pitch and yaw limits
- Siyi driver sends autopilot location and speed (recorded in images via EXIF)
- Siyi picture and video download scripts
- Siyi ZT6 and ZT30 support sending min, max temperature (see CAMERA_THERMAL_RANGE msg)
- Siyi ZT6 and ZT30 thermal palette can be changed using camera-change-setting.lua script
- Siyi ZT6 hardware id and set-lens fixed
- Topotek gimbal support
- Trigger distance ignores GPS status and only uses EKF reported location
6) Harmonic notch enhancements
- Harmonic notch is active in forward flight on quadplanes
- Harmonic notch filter freq clamping and disabling reworked
- Harmonic notch handles negative ESC RPMs
- Harmonic notch supports per-motor throttle-based harmonic notch
7) Copter specific enhancements and bug fixes
- Attitude control fix to dt update order (reduces rate controller noise)
- Auto mode fix to avoid prematurely advancing to next waypoint if given enough time
- Auto mode small target position jump when takeoff completes removed
- Auto mode yaw drift when passing WP removed if CONDITION_YAW command used and WP_YAW_BEHAVIOR = 0/None
- Auto, Guided flight mode pause RC aux switch (see RCx_OPTION = 178)
- AutoRTL (e.g. DO_LAND_START) uses copter stopping point to decide nearest mission command
- AutoRTL mode supports DO_RETURN_PATH_START (Copter, Heli only)
- AutoTune fix to prevent spool up after landing
- AutoTune performance and safety enhancements (less chance of ESC desync, fails when vehicle likely can't be tuned well)
- Autotune test gains RC aux switch function allows testing gains in any mode (see RCx_OPTION = 180)
- Config error avoided if auto mode is paused very soon after poweron
- FLIGHT_OPTIONS bit added to require position estimate before arming
- Follow mode slowdown calcs fixed when target is moving
- Ground oscillation suppressed by reducing gains (see ATC_LAND_R/P/Y_MULT)
- Guided mode internal error fix when taking off using SET_ATTITUDE_CONTROL message
- Guided mode internal error resolved when switching between thrust or climb rate based altitude control
- Guided mode yaw fixed when WP_YAW_BEHAVIOR = 0/None and CONDITION_YAW command received containing relative angle
- Landing detector fixed when in stabilize mode at full throttle but aircraft is upside down
- Landing detector logging added to ease support (see LDET message)
- Loiter unlimited command accepts NaNs (QGC sends these)
- Mavlink SYSTEM_STATUS set to BOOT during initialisation
- MOT_PWM_TYPE of 9 (PWMAngle) respects SERVOx_MIN/MAX/TRIM/REVERSED param values
- Payload place bug fix when aborted because gripper is already released
- RC based tuning (aka CH6 tuning) can use any RC aux function channel (see RCx_OPTION = 219)
- RTL_ALT minimum reduced to 30cm
- SystemID position controller support (Copter and Heli)
- TriCopter motor test and slew-up fixed
- WPNAV_SPEED min reduced to 10 cm/s (Copter only)
- Loiter mode zeros desired accel when re-entering from Auto during RC failsafe
8) TradHeli specific enhancements
- Autorotation yaw behaviour fix
- Autotune improvements including using low frequency dwell for feedforward gain tuning and conducting sweep in attitude instead of rate
- Blade pitch angle logging added (see SWSH log message)
- Constrain cyclic roll for intermeshing
- ICE / turbine cool down fix
- Inverted flight extended to non manual throttle modes
- Inverted flight transitions smoothed and restricted to only Stabilize mode
- SWSH logging fix for reversed collectives
9) Plane specific enhancements and bug fixes
- AIRSPEED_STALL holds vehicle stall speed and is used for minimum speed scaling
- Allow for different orientations of landing rangefinder
- Assistance requirements evaluted on mode change
- FBWB/CRUISE climb/sink rate limited by TECS limits
- FLIGHT_OPTION to immediately climb in AUTO mode (not doing glide slope)
- Glider pullup support (available only through custom build server)
- Loiter breakout improved to better handle destinations inside loiter circle
- Manual mode throttle made consistent with other modes (e.g battery comp and watt limit is done if enabled)
- Mavlink GUIDED_CHANGE_ALTITUDE supports terrain altitudes
- Minimum throttle not applied during SLT VTOL airbrake (reduces increase in airspeed and alt during back transition)
- Q_APPROACH_DIST set minimum distance to use the fixed wing approach logic
- Quadplane assistance check enhancements
- Quadplane Deca frame support
- Quadplane gets smoother takeoff by input shaping target accel and velocity
- Servo wiggles in altitude wait staged to be one after another
- Set_position_target_global_int accepts MAV_FRAME_GLOBAL_RELATIVE_ALT and MAV_FRAME_GLOBAL_TERRAIN_ALT frames
- Takeoff airspeed control improved (see TKOFF_MODE, TKOFF_THR_MIN)
- Takeoff fixes for fence autoenable
- Takeoff improvements including less overshoot of TKOFF_ALT
- TECS reset along with other controllers (important if plane dropped from balloon)
- Tilt quadplane ramp of motors on back transition fixed
- Tiltrotor tilt angles logged
- TKOFF_THR_MIN applied to SLT transitions
- Twin motor planes with DroneCAN ESCs fix to avoid max throttle at arming due to misconfiguration
- VTOLs switch to QLAND if a LONG_FAILSAFE is triggered during takeoff
10) Rover specific enhancements and bug fixes
- Auto mode reversed state maintained if momentarily switched to Hold mode
- Circle mode tracks better and avoids getting stuck at circle edge
- Flight time stats fixed
- MAV_CMD_NAV_SET_YAW_SPEED deprecated
- Omni3Mecanum frame support
- Stopping point uses max deceleration (was incorrectly using acceleration)
- Wheel rate controller slew rate fix
11) Antenna Tracker specific enhancements and bug fixes
- Never track lat,lon of 0,0
12) Scripting enhancements
- advance-wp.lua applet supports advancing Auto mode WP via RC switch
- AHRS_switch.lua supports switching between EKF2 and EKF3 via RC switch
- battery_internal_resistance_check.lua monitors battery resistance
- CAN:get_device returns nil for unconfigured CAN device
- copter_terrain_brake.lua script added to prevent impact with terrain in Loiter mode (Copter only)
- Copter:get_target_location, update_target_location support
- crosstrack_restore.lua example allows returning to previous track in Auto (Plane only)
- Display text on OLED display supported
- Docs improved for many bindings
- EFI get_last_update_ms binding
- EFI_SkyPower.lua driver accepts 2nd supply voltage
- ESC_slew_rate.lua example script supports testing ESCs
- Filesystem CRC32 check to allow scripts to check module versions
- forced arming support
- GPIO get/set mode bindings (see gpio:set_mode, get_mode)
- GPS-for-yaw angle binding (see gps:gps_yaw_deg)
- Halo6000 EFI driver can log all CAN packets for easier debugging
- handle_external_position_estimate binding allows sending position estimate from lua to EKF
- I2C:transfer support
- IMU gyros_consistent and accels_consistent bindings added
- INF_Inject.lua driver more robust to serial errors, improved logging, throttle and ignition control
- INS bindings for is calibrating, gyro and accel sensor values
- IPV4 address bindings (see SocketAPM_ipv4_addr_to_string) to allow UDP server that responds to individual clients
- Logging of booleans supported
- Lua language checks improved (finds more errors)
- MAVLink commands can be called from scripting
- MCU voltage binding (see analog:mcu_voltage)
- NMEA 2000 EFI driver (see EFI_NMEA2k.lua)
- "open directory failed" false warning when scripts in ROMFS fixed
- Param_Controller.lua supports quickly switching between 3 parameter sets via RC switch
- Pass by reference values are always initialized
- pelco_d_antennatracker.lua applet supports sending Pelco-D via RS-485 to PTZ cameras
- plane_aerobatics.lua minor enhancements
- REPL applet (read-evaluate-print-loop, see repl.lua) for interactive testing and experimentation
- "require" function failures in rare circumstances fixed
- "require" function works for modules in ROMFS (e.g. not on SD card)
- revert_param.lua supports more params (e.g ATC_RATE_R/P/Y, PTCH2SRV_TCONST, RLL2SRV_TCONST, TECS_)
- Scripts may receive mavlink messages which fail CRC (e.g messages which FC does not understand)
- SD card formatting supported
- Serial device simulation support (allows Lua to feed data to any supported serial protocol for e.g. sensor simulation)
- set_target_throttle_rate_rpy allows rate control from scripts (new for Copter)
- sitl_standby_sim.lua example shows how to switch between redundant flight controllers using an RC switch
- Slung payload oscillation suppression applet added (see copter-slung-payload.lua)
- Temperature sensor bindings added
- uint64 support
- Various performance and memory usage optimizations
- VTOL-quicktune.lua minor enhancements including increasing YAW_FLTE_MAX to 8
- x-quad-cg-allocation.lua applet corrects for the CoM discrepancy in a quad-X frame
13) GCS / mavlink related changes and fixes
- BATTERY2 message deprecated (replaced by BATTERY_STATUS)
- CMD_MISSION_START/STOP rejected if first-item/last-item args provided
- Deny attempts to upload two missions simultaneously
- Fence and Rally points may be uploaded using FTP
- GPS_INPUT and HIL_GPS handles multiple GPSs
- HIGHRES_IMU mavlink message support (used by companion computers to receive IMU data from FC)
- MAV_CMD_COMPONENT_ARM_DISARM accepts force arm magic value of 21196
- MAV_CMD_DO_SET_SAFETY_SWITCH_STATE support
- MAV_CMD_SET_HAGL support (Plane only)
- MAVFTP respects TX buffer flow control to improve FTP on low bandwidth links
- MAVLink receiver support (RADIO_RC_CHANNELS mavlink message)
- Message interval supports TERRAIN_REPORT msg
- Mission upload may be cancelled using MISSION_CLEAR_ALL
- MOUNT_CONFIGURE, MOUNT_CONTROL messages deprecated
- RC_CHANNELS_RAW deprecated
- Serial passthrough supports parity allowing STM32CubeProgrammer to be used to program FrSky R9 receivers
- SET_ATTITUDE_TARGET angular rate input frame fixed (Copter only)
- TIMESYNC and NAMED_VALUE_FLOAT messages not sent on high latency MAVLink ports
14) Logging enhancements and fixes
- AC_PID resets and I-term sets logged
- ANG provides attitude at high rate (equivalent to ATT)
- ATT logs angles as floats (better resolution than ints)
- CAND message gets driver index
- DCM log message includes roll/pitch and yaw error
- EDT2 log msg includes stress and status received via extended DShot Telemetry v2
- EFI ECYL cylinder head and exhaust temp logs in degC (was Kelvin)
- ESCX log msg includes DroneCAN ESCs status, temp, duty cycle and power pct
- FMT messages written as required instead of all at beginning
- Logging restarted after download completes when LOG_DISARMED = 1
- MISE msg logs active mission command (CMD logged when commands are uploaded)
- ORGN message logging fixed when set using SET_GPS_GLOBAL_ORIGIN
- RPM sensor logging gets instance field, quality and health fields
- Short filename support removed (e.g log1.BIN instead of 00000001.BIN)
- Temperature sensor logging option for only sensors with no source (see TEMP_LOG)
- UART data rates logged at 1hz (see UART message)
15) ROS2 / DDS support
- Airspeed published
- Battery topic reports all available batteries
- Compile-time configurable rates for each publisher
- DDS_TIMEOUT_MS and DDS_MAX_RETRY set timeout and num retries when client pings XRCE agent
- GPS global origin published at 1 Hz
- High frequency raw imu data transmission
- Joystick support
- Support sending waypoints to Copter and Rover
- Remove the XML refs file in favor of binary entity creation
16) Safety related enhancements and fixes
- Accel/Gyro inconsistent message fixed for using with only single IMU
- Battery monitor failure reported to GCS, triggers battery failsafe but does not take action
- Far from EKF origin pre-arm check removed (Copter only)
- Fence breach warning message slightly improved
- Fence enhancements incluiding alt min fence (Copter only, see FENCE_AUTOENABLE, FENCE_OPTIONS)
- Fences can be stored to SD Card (see BRD_SD_FENCE param)
- ICEngine stopped when in E-Stop or safety engaged (Plane only)
- LEDs flash green lights based on EKF location not GPS
- Parachute option to skip disarm before parachute release (see CHUTE_OPTIONS)
- Plane FENCE_AUTOENABLE of 1 or 2 deprecation warning added
- Pre-arm check if OpenDroneID is compiled in but disabled
- Pre-arm check of duplicate RC aux functions fixed (was skipping recently added aux functions)
- Pre-arm checks alert user more quickly on failure
- Prearm check for misconfigured EAHRS_SENSORS and GPS_TYPE
- Proximity sensor based avoidance keeps working even if one proximity sensor fails (Copter, Rover)
- RC aux functions for Arm, Disarm, E-Stop and Parachute ignored when RC is first turned on
- Warning of duplicate SERIALx_PROTOCOL = RCIN
17) Other bug fixes and minor enhancements
- Accel cal fixed for auxiliary IMUs (e.g. IMU4 and higher)
- Bootloader fix to reduce unnecessary mass erasing of flash when using STLink or Jlink tools
- Bootloader rejects allocation of broadcast node ID
- CAN forward registering/de-registering fix (affected Mission Planner DroneCAN UI)
- Dijkstras fix to correct use of uninitialised variable
- DShot rates are not limited by NeoPixel rates
- Ethernet and CAN bootloader fix to prevent getting stuck in bootloader mode
- Filesystem does not show entries for empty @ files
- Filesystem efficiency improvements when reading files
- Flight statistics only reset if user sets STAT_RESET to zero (avoids accidental reset)
- Flight time statistics updated on disarm (avoids issue if vehicle powered-down soon after disarm)
- Internal error thrown if we lose parameters due to saving queue being too small
- MAVLink via DroneCAN baud rate fix
- SPI pins may also be used as GPIOs
- Terrain cache size configurable (see TERRAIN_CACHE_SZ)
18) Developer focused fixes and enhancements
- AP_Camera gets example python code showing how to use GStreamer with UDP and RTSP video streams
- Cygwin build fix for non-SITL builds
- Cygwin build fixed with malloc wrap
- DroneCAN and scripting support FlexDebug messages (see CAN_Dn_UC_OPTION, FlexDebug.lua)
- EKF3 code generator documentation and cleanup
- GPS jamming simulator added
- MacOS compiler warnings reduced
- SFML joystick support
- SITL support for OpenBSD
- Text warning if older Fence or Rally point protocols are used
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Release 4.5.7 08 Oct 2024
Changes from 4.5.7-beta1