1.0.0-alpha.17

KevinbotLib 1.0.0-alpha.17

💥 Breaking Changes

• KevinbotLib now requires Python>=3.10
• KevinbotLib Redis Comms now requires Redis>=7.4
• KevinbotLib Comm/Redis has been majorly refactored, causing incompatibilities with most old applications
• A typo was fixed in RawSerialInterface that may break some existing applications

😀 New Features

• Kevinbot Simulation Framework 🚀
• KevinbotLib Coordinate System with Coord2d, Angle2d, Pose2d, sendables, and 3d counterparts 🚀
• Dashboard: 2d coordinate grid widget
• Dashboard: Accent color customization is now supported
• Comms: Add abstract classes for communication classes
• Comms: Added a new multi_set, multi_get, and PipelinedCommSetter for better performance
• Cli: Added command line interface for log directory
• Cli: Added command line interface for serial enumeration
• Scheduler: Command and Trigger overrun warnings
• Joystick: Added support for command-based
• Vision: Simulation support
  • Camera passthrough is experimental on macOS
  • An extra firewall rule may need to be added for the ZeroMQ IPC server
  • UNENCRYPTED video data from the simulator will be exposed on an ephemeral port on 127.0.0.1
• Serial: Simulation support

🏗️ Improvements

• Theme: added support for flat QPushButtons
• Deployment: don't fail when a manifest isn't present
• Joystick: Remote Joysticks now use a polling loop
• Redis: Numerous performance improvements
• Apps: All GUI apps are now using superqt/fonticon_mdi7 instead of qtawesome. This allows the apps to use MDI7 icons

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Comm: fix reliability on unstable connections
• Logger: Fix log escaping - some messages like <locals> would fail before
• Dashboard: Don't show save dialog on exit if there are no changes
• Logger: fix ABC implementations in StreamRedirector

License Notice

Pre-built Binaries are licensed under the GNU GPLv3

Important

SDL2 is required for the KevinbotLib Control Console and Joystick Development
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/Installation

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-alpha.16...1.0.0-alpha.17

1.0.0-alpha.16

KevinbotLib 1.0.0-alpha.16

💥 Breaking Changes

• All references to XboxController have been renamed to NamedController, XboxAxis -> NamedAxis, etc

😀 New Features

• Robot, Console: Add robot heartbeat system to detect when robot code has stopped
• Deployment: Add support for manifest with git and timestamp data
• Dashboard: add slider widget

🏗️ Improvements

• Joystick interfaces now use SDL2's GameController API for maximized compatibility
• Dashboard: Graphs will no longer cause application slowdown, and now use pglive
• Theme: QComboBox dropdown, QSlider themes have been added

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Comm: fix timeout errors

License Notice

Pre-built Binaries are licensed under the GNU GPLv3

Important

SDL2 is required for the KevinbotLib Control Console
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/Installation

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-alpha.15...1.0.0-alpha.16

1.0.0-alpha.15

KevinbotLib 1.0.0-alpha.15

💥 Breaking Changes

• Fileserver: FTP support has been removed due to security concerns
• Console: Switch to Pub/Sub protocol for enable updates - Robot code must be updated to KevinbotLib 1.0.0a15
• Console: Settings have been relocated to the same location as all other KevinbotLib Apps - Settings will be reset
• Robot: Robot will no longer log to stderr by default

😀 New Features

• Joystick: Controller Mapper support
• Joystick: Basic rumble support on local controllers
• Console: GUID-linked controller mapper tool
• Console: Display source of logs
• Dashboard: Add graph widget
• Comm: Socket timeout support
• Log Downloader: Key authentication support
• Robot: Heartbeat system for control console to detect when code is running

🏗️ Improvements

• macOS: Add correctly sized macOS icons (thanks to IconKitchen)
• Dashboard: Preserve raw view scroll on data update
• Dashboard: Use BLAKE3 hash or large binary data in Data View
• Theme: Basic support for QComboBox
• Log Downloader: Show host key before connecting

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Console: Fix crash when quickly moving axes while on controllers tab
• Console: Fix crash when re-connecting robot
• Console: Fixed joystick selector layout
• Console: Fixed SDL2 not found dialog
• Console: Fix battery display glitches
• Dashboard: Fix potential crash when re-connecting robot
• Build: Python Standard Distributions no longer include docs, build scripts
• Comm: Allow subscribe before connecting

License Notice

Pre-built Binaries are licensed under the GNU GPLv3

Important

SDL2 is required for the KevinbotLib Control Console
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/Installation

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-alpha.14...1.0.0-alpha.15

1.0.0-alpha.14

KevinbotLib 1.0.0-alpha.14

🚀 New Platforms

• Linux ARM64

😀 New Features

• Console: Display error message if SDL2 is not found, instead of a silent exit

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Dashboard, Log Viewer, Log Downloader: Enable native menu bar on macOS
• Comm: Fix listener loop ended when connecting without pub/sub subscriptions
• Comm: Fix on_disconnect not triggering when connection is dead
• Windows: Fix crash when running built applications without a console

License Notice

Pre-built Binaries are licensed under the GNU GPLv3

Important

SDL2 is required for the KevinbotLib Control Console
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/Installation

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-alpha.13...1.0.0-alpha.14

1.0.0-alpha.13

KevinbotLib 1.0.0-alpha.13

🚀 New Platforms

• macOS Intel
• macOS ARM
• Windows x64

😀 New Features

• Windows and macOS build scripts

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix logging crash on Windows when sys.stdout is None
• Fix architecture and glibc reporting in Linux build script

‼️ Known Issues

• Pre-built binaries still need SDL2 to be installed for the Control Console to launch
• KevinbotLib is still in Alpha, so expect issues

Notice

Pre-built Binaries are licensed under the GNU GPLv3

Important

SDL2 is required for the KevinbotLib Control Console
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/Installation

Full Changelog: 1.0.0-alpha.12...1.0.0-alpha.13

1.0.0-alpha.12

KevinbotLib 1.0.0-alpha.12

This is the first automated release including Linux app builds

Wait until 1.0.0-alpha.13 for a Windows and macOS build 😀

Notice

Pre-built Binaries are licensed under the GNU GPLv3