Gazebo Newsletter: April 2018

2018-04-06

Gazebo Newsletter 8 April 2018

The Gazebo newsletter is back, with the addition of Community Contributions!

The Gazebo Roadmap has been updated to reflect the development direction of Gazebo and the Ignition libraries. Most new work is happening in the Ignition Libraries where a physics abstraction layer is taking shape, message logging is almost complete,new widgets are being added to a plugin-based graphical user interface, and a rendering abstraction can make use of either a path tracing or opengl rendering engine.

Community Contributions

We'd like to thank the following people for their contributions to Gazebo. This is not an exhaustive list. Apologies if we accidentally missed your contributions.

Releases

The following lists includes releases made since the release of Gazebo 9 in January of this year.

  • Gazebo 7.11.0
  • Gazebo 8.4.0
  • Gazebo 8.4.0
  • Ignition CMake 0.5.0
  • Ignition Tools 0.1.0
  • Ignition Transport 3.1.0

Tip of the month

A relatively new feature in Gazebo is the ability to use lens flares in camera sensors. Check out the lensflare_plugin example world to get started.

Featured Model

A playground that can add a bit of interest to your outdoor environments.

Bugs

Questions and Answers

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