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Bug Fix

• Add rolling info when checking the ROS distro https://github.com/RobotWebTools/rclnodejs/commit/64ff43d5430f486e14492ba8d9a9eda01606db4a
• Additional generate-messages improvements #776
• Fixes GCC 8.X compiler warnings. #780

Others

• Adds new README section to rclnodejs-cli. #786

Bug Fix

• Run rclnodejs with Node.js (>= 10 and <=12) on appveyor #773
• Improve UX of msg generation process #759 Developers can run npm run generate-messages manually to generate all the JavaScript messages.
• Use null-terminated string in the tests when sending a raw topic #771

Others

• Complete the contributors list #770
• Reduce README length by dividing into smaller documents #769

Feature

• Propose making Node extendable (i.e, create Node subclasses) #753 e.g.

class MyNode extends Node {
  constructor(
    nodeName,
    namespace = '',
    context = Context.defaultContext(),
    options = NodeOptions.defaultOptions
  ) {
    super(nodeName, namespace, context, options);
    this.init();
  }

Bug Fix

• Find ros packages from ament index #747
• benchmark code does not build on foxy #739
• High CPU load if there are no registered handles #752

Others

• [AppVeyor] Update to Visual Studio 2019 #755
• Adding configuration for prettier #738
• Mitigate docker hub rate limiting #766
• remove test.js #748
• Improve RclHandle ptr free() strategy #728
• Remove the redundant test-rate.js #762

Feature

• ROS2 Lifecycle Node (managed node) #722

  async init() {
    await rclnodejs.init();

    this._count = COUNTD_DOWN;
    this._node = rclnodejs.createLifecycleNode(NODE_NAME);
    this._node.registerOnConfigure((prevState)=>this.onConfigure(prevState));
    this._node.registerOnActivate((prevState)=>this.onActivate(prevState));
    this._node.registerOnDeactivate((prevState)=>this.onDeactivate(prevState));
    this._node.registerOnShutdown((prevState)=>this.onShutdown(prevState));
    this._StateInterface = rclnodejs.createMessage('lifecycle_msgs/msg/State').constructor;

    rclnodejs.spin(this._node);
  }

Bug Fix

• Problem with space in path #711
• Shuts down all contexts on sigint; remove g_sigint_gc #720
• Fix action support to interface_loader.loadInterfaceByPath() #730
• Fix some compilation warnings generated by: node-gyp rebuild (#734)
• Removed unused vars #741

Others

• Improve the docs & shutdown behavior when the node process is terminated #721
• Cleanup Message Generation #726
• Clean up some tests #725
• Simplify rclnodejs/index.js #737

Feature

• Improve typing support for services #708
• Support to publish/subscribe serialized messages #646
• Update typings to support pub-sub of serialized messages #706

Bug Fix

• Segfault during generate_messages script #699

Others

• Add TypeScript syntax highlighting to README #701
• Upgrade the macOS to 10.15.5 on CircleCI #702

Bug Fix

• Error in TimeSource subscription to /clock topic #696
• Upgrade ref-napi to 3.0.0

Note: v0.15.2 is a hotfix version and verified by 04b14939c124252b459e2d8642e53ba09b768cc0. (2020-8-7)

Bug Fix

• Add missing type declarations for action server/client destroy methods #690
• Improve tsd generation resilency. #691
• fix: electron (#685)
• Correct the description of sendGoal function #692

Note: v0.15.1 is a hotfix version, which fixed an urgent memory leak problem in rclnodejs and is verified by 17b9c6699fe68b372454e2e5f79e2e4aa5e91fbf. (2020-7-30)

Bug Fix

• memory leaks in RclHandle and ref-napi #674

Note: v0.15.0 has been tested against ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy Patch Release 1 by 3071feac8fab76191ba619cd0f6d29cd2beb80d1 (2020-7-21)

Feature

• multiple context support #668 #669

Bug Fix

• Use Read-write locks to protect the data shared between threads #662
• Gen 'number[] | typed-array' union in tsd files #658 #665
• fix compatibility for eloquent #666
• Align with the basic types which can be typed-arrays #670
• Fix compiling error when using Node.js v10.12.0 #678
• Fix double-free when using typed array #679
• fix use-after-free in subscription callbacks #680

Note: v0.14.1 has been tested against ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy by 142b97042d26a3d582964744052188ba5e07f2ce (2020-6-10)

Bug Fix

• Rename rosidl_generator_c to rosidl_runtime_c #650
• Call rcl_logging_configure/rcl_logging_fini when init/shutdown #652