Changelog for package rosbot

1.0.0 (2026-04-21)

• New firmware with microros namespace pre-communication support (#168)

  - New firmware ([v1.0.0-jazzy]{.title-ref}) for ROSbot 3 and ROSbot XL enabling namespace configuration via serial pre-communication before microros agent starts

  - `configure_robot` script — serial pre-communication node: sends namespace to MCU over FTDI/UART, verifies firmware version, waits for ACK

  - Separated bringup — [bringup.yaml]{.title-ref} dispatches to [rosbot.yaml]{.title-ref} / [rosbot_xl.yaml]{.title-ref}; ROSbot XL gets dedicated nodes: [battery_alert]{.title-ref}, [led_strip_car_wave]{.title-ref}

  • `tf_namespace_bridge` — bridges namespaced [/tf]{.title-ref} to global [/tf]{.title-ref} and [/tf_static]{.title-ref}
  • `microros_mode` arg — allows overriding default communication mode (serial/udp)
  • Controller tuning: updated ICR, wheel params and acceleration limits for both robots
  • Renamed [FirmwareFlasherUSB/UART]{.title-ref} → [McuManagerFTDI/UART]{.title-ref} with added [reset_mcu()]{.title-ref}

  - `battery_alert`: switched from [aplay]{.title-ref} to [paplay]{.title-ref} with configurable [audio_device]{.title-ref} ROS parameter (snap-friendly via [audio-playback]{.title-ref} interface); [pulseaudio-utils]{.title-ref} dep commented pending [ros/rosdistro#50811](https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/50811)

  - Fixed: argparse [required=True]{.title-ref} ignoring [os.getenv()]{.title-ref} default in [configure_robot]{.title-ref} and [flash_firmware]{.title-ref}

  • Fixed: namespace validation before serial write in [configure_robot]{.title-ref}
  • Fixed: missing [hasattr(e, "stderr")]{.title-ref} guard in [mcu_manager_uart]{.title-ref}

  - Fixed: deprecated [on_init(HardwareInfo&)]{.title-ref} → [on_init(HardwareComponentInterfaceParams&)]{.title-ref} in [rosbot_hardware_interfaces]{.title-ref}

• Rename mecanum pkg dependency

• Open manipulator use all apt depndencies; Make flash_firmware executable

• Add missing changelog descriptions for past releases (#167)

  • Remove automatic bump
  • Add missing changelog descriptions for past releases

• Contributors: Rafal Gorecki, rafal-gorecki

0.18.8 (2026-03-02)

• Remove conditional dependencies
• Migrate rest of the ament_python pkg to ament_cmake
• Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.7 (2026-02-27)

• Update public action version in workflow
• Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.6 (2026-02-27)

• Unnecesary auto release
• Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.5 (2026-02-27)

• prepare for apt release: execute catkin_generate_changelog manually
• Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.4 (2026-02-27)

• rosbot_bringup: migrate ament_python pkg to ament_cmake package
• Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.3 (2026-02-26)

• Use apt instead pip dependencies (python3-pyftdi-pip to python3-ftdi)
• Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.2 (2026-02-26)

• Migrate ROS2 launch from Python to YAML
• Contributors: rafal-gorecki

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