diff --git a/ArduPlane/release-notes.txt b/ArduPlane/release-notes.txt index 8c5d915aaf..8483575bfe 100644 --- a/ArduPlane/release-notes.txt +++ b/ArduPlane/release-notes.txt @@ -1,3 +1,63 @@ +Release 3.2.2, February 10th 2015 +--------------------------------- + +The ardupilot development team has released version 3.2.2 of +APM:Plane. This is a bugfix release for some important bugs found by +users of the 3.2.1 release. + +The changes in this release are: + + - fixed a bug that could cause short term loss of RC control with + some receiver systems and configurations + + - allowed for shorter sync pulse widths for PPM-SUM receivers on + APM1 and APM2 + + - fixed HIL mode altitude + +The most important bug fix is the one for short term loss of RC +control. This is a very long standing bug which didn't have a +noticible impact for most people, but could cause loss of RC control +for around 1 or 2 seconds for some people in certain circumstances. + +The bug was in the the AP_HAL RCInput API. Each HAL backend has a flag +that says whether there is a new RC input frame available. That flag +was cleared by the read() method (typically hal.rcin->read()). Callers +would check for new input by checking the boolean +hal.rcin->new_input() function. + +The problem was that read() was called from multiple places. Normally +this is fine as reads from other than the main radio input loop happen +before the other reads, but if the timing of the new radio frame +exactly matched the loop frequency then a read from another place +could clear the new_input flag and we would not see the new RC input +frame. If that happened enough times we would go into a short term RC +failsafe and ignore RC inputs, even in manual mode. + +The fix was very simple - it is the new_input() function itself that +should clear the flag, not read(). + +Many thanks to MarkM for helping us track down this bug by providing +us with sufficient detail on how to reproduce it. In Marks case his +OpenLRSng configuration happened to produce exactly the worst case +timing needed to reproduce the issue. Once I copied his OpenLRS +settings to my TX/RX I was able to reproduce the problem and it was +easy to find and fix. + +A number of users have reported occasional glitches in manual control +where servos pause for short periods in past releases. It is likely +that some of those issues were caused by this bug. The dev team would +like to apologise for taking so long to track down this bug! + +The other main change was also related to RC input. Some receivers use +a PPM-SUM sync pulse width shorter than what the APM1/APM2 code was +setup to handle. The OpenLRSng default sync pulse width is 3000 +microseconds, but the APM1/APM2 code was written for a mininum sync +pulse width of 4000 microseconds. For this release I have changed the +APM1/APM2 driver to accept a sync pulse width down to 2700 +microseconds. + + Release 3.2.1, February 5th 2015 --------------------------------