Changelog for package launch_ros

0.26.7 (2025-04-02)

• Fixing lifecycle node autostart issue #445 (#449) (#453) (cherry picked from commit 98952b58d570cde78d8cfec8c8d697f331b8c982) Co-authored-by: Steve Macenski <<stevenmacenski@gmail.com>>
• Autostarting lifecycle nodes and example launch file demo (#430) (#438) (cherry picked from commit 3569f0d76c68884ca8796c0134bad29e8732d868) Co-authored-by: Steve Macenski <<stevenmacenski@gmail.com>>
• Change docstring markdown code blocks to RST (#450) (#451) (cherry picked from commit 9abb3be6c9b482bb9945d9204a0427c7b3c0f450) Co-authored-by: Christophe Bedard <<bedard.christophe@gmail.com>>
• mock launch components causing rosdoc2 to fail Python API (#425) (#439) (cherry picked from commit 2e737c8cb0ad7afc436938c30b5e14b4282ff2f7) Co-authored-by: R Kent James <<kent@caspia.com>>
• Contributors: mergify[bot]

0.26.6 (2024-12-18)

• Fix url in setup.py (#413) (#414) (cherry picked from commit edb63764c39993645fd6bc7e0fc31ed7316f0b45) Co-authored-by: Wei HU <<37072526+huweiATgithub@users.noreply.github.com>>
• Contributors: mergify[bot]

0.26.5 (2024-03-28)

• Fix: typing. Iterable doesn't have __getitem_ (#393)
• Cleanup some type annotations. (#392)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Matthijs van der Burgh

0.26.4 (2024-01-24)

0.26.3 (2023-12-26)

0.26.2 (2023-09-07)

• Create py.typed to mark this library as typed (#379)
• Contributors: Jonas Otto

0.26.1 (2023-08-21)

• Remove create_future implementation. (#372)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.26.0 (2023-07-11)

• cache lookup of importlib metadata in Node action (#365)
• Get rid of unnecessary checks in composable_node_container. (#364)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, William Woodall

0.25.0 (2023-04-27)

0.24.0 (2023-04-11)

• Use SomeEntitiesType for type checking. (#358)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.23.0 (2023-02-14)

• Fix normalize_parameters_dict for multiple nodes in the same namespace (#347)
• Implement None check for ComposableNodeContainer (#341)
• Add LifecyleTransition action (#317)
• Improve evaluate_paramenter_dict exceptions error message (#320)
• Ensure load_composable_nodes respects condition (#339)
• fix: return text value to avoid exception (#338)
• [rolling] Update maintainers - 2022-11-07 (#331)
• Contributors: Alexey Merzlyakov, Audrow Nash, Christoph Hellmann Santos, Daisuke Nishimatsu, Felipe Gomes de Melo, methylDragon

0.22.0 (2022-11-02)

• RosTimer -> ROSTimer and PushRosNamespace -> PushROSNamespace, to follow PEP8 (#326)
• add SetROSLogDir action (#325)
• Contributors: William Woodall

0.21.0 (2022-09-13)

• Support default values in parameter substitution (#313)
• Contributors: Kenji Miyake

0.20.0 (2022-04-29)

• Run condition for composable nodes (#311)
• Contributors: Aditya Pande

0.19.2 (2022-04-08)

• Fix importlib_metadata warning on Python 3.10. (#307)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.19.1 (2022-04-05)

0.19.0 (2022-03-24)

• Use correct namespace when evaluating parameter files for composable nodes (#303)
• Handle empty strings when evaluating parameters (#300)
• Contributors: Jacob Perron

0.18.0 (2022-03-01)

• Add parameter substitution (#297)
• Contributors: Kenji Miyake

0.17.0 (2021-12-14)

0.16.0 (2021-11-29)

• fix bug in warning when an entry point fails to load (#243)
• More Helpful Error Messages (#275)
• Update maintainers in setup.py (#287)
• Set parameters from file for composable nodes (#281)
• Update package maintainers (#284)
• Update node name matcher (#282)
• Support both parameter file configurations for composable nodes (#259)
• Contributors: Aditya Pande, Audrow Nash, David V. Lu!!, Jacob Perron, Michel Hidalgo, Rebecca Butler, William Woodall

0.15.0 (2021-10-07)

• Handle substitutions in RosTimer (#264)
• Add SetParametersFromFile action (#260)
• Properly support ros_args attribute through launch frontends (#253)
• Add 'push_ros_namespace' alias to 'push-ros-namespace' (#250)
• Add ros_arguments option to Node action (#249)
• Refactor RosTimer to extend TimerAction (#248)
• ROS Timer Action (#244)
• Support container in frontend (#235)
• Fix a small typo in a comment (#237)
• Better document parameter handling in Node (#234)
• Contributors: Aditya Pande, Chris Lalancette, Christophe Bedard, Felix Divo, Jacob Perron, Kenji Miyake, Rebecca Butler

0.14.2 (2021-04-26)

0.14.1 (2021-04-12)

• Support Python 3.8 importlib.metadata, declare dependency (#229)
• Contributors: Scott K Logan

0.14.0 (2021-04-06)

• Add options extensions to ros2launch and extensibility to the node action (#216)
• Contributors: Geoffrey Biggs

0.13.0 (2021-01-25)

• Make sure ParameterFile __del_ works without exception. (#212)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.12.0 (2020-12-08)

• Fix docblock in LoadComposableNodes (#207)
• Validate complex attributes of 'node' action (#198)
• Node.__init_() executable and ComposableNode.__init_() plugin arguments aren't optional (#197)
• Remove constructors arguments deprecated since Foxy (#190)
• Make name and namespace mandatory in ComposableNodeContainer, remove deprecated alternatives (#189)
• Merge pull request #183 from ros2/update-maintainers Update the package.xml files with the latest Open Robotics maintainers
• Move previous maintainer to <author>
• Update the package.xml files with the latest Open Robotics maintainers
• Fix AttributeError when accessing component container name (#177)
• Handle any substitution types for SetParameter name argument (#182)
• Asynchronously wait for load node service response (#174)
• Fix case where list of composable nodes is zero (#173)
• Do not use event handler for loading composable nodes (#170)
• Fix race with launch context changes when loading composable nodes (#166)
• Substitutions in parameter files (#168)
• Fix documentation typo (#167)
• Fix problems when parsing a [Command]{.title-ref} [Substitution]{.title-ref} as a parameter value (#137)
• Add a way to set remapping rules for all nodes in the same scope (#163)
• Resolve libyaml warning when loading parameters from file (#161)
• Fix ComposableNode ignoring PushRosNamespace actions (#162)
• Add a SetParameter action that sets a parameter to all nodes in the same scope (#158)
• Make namespace parameter mandatory in LifecycleNode constructor (#157)
• Avoid using a wildcard to specify parameters if possible (#154)
• Fix no specified namespace (#153)
• Add pytest.ini so local tests don't display warning (#152)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Dereck Wonnacott, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Jacob Perron, Michael Jeronimo

0.10.2 (2020-05-26)

0.10.1 (2020-05-13)

• Fix new flake8 errors (#148)
• Contributors: Michel Hidalgo

0.10.0 (2020-04-29)

• Avoid using sys.argv in rclpy.init (#144)
• Deprecated 'node_executable' parameter and replace with 'executable' (#140)
• Bump node_name warning stacklevel (#138)
• More verbose test_flake8 error messages (same as ros2/launch_ros#135)
• Enable implicit ROS startup by launch_ros actions (#128)
• Add warning message when launching Non-Uniquely Named Nodes (#127)
• Rename node-related parameters (#122)
• Fix LoadComposableNodes action so that loading happens asynchronously (#113)
• Fix frontend topic remapping (#111)
• Check for shutdown while waiting for a service response to avoid hang during shutdown (#104)
• Fix misleading deprecated warnings when using launch arguments (#106)
• Use imperative mood in constructor docstrings (#103)
• Maintain order of parameters regarding name and from (#99)
• Allow separate launch composition (#77)
• Fix push-ros-namespace in xml/yaml launch files (#100)
• Pass the node-name attribute through the substitution parser (#101)
• Add pid to launch_ros node name as suffix (#98)
• Contributors: Brian Ezequiel Marchi, Brian Marchi, Dirk Thomas, Eric Fang, Grey, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Jacob Perron, Miaofei Mei, Michel Hidalgo, Shane Loretz, Steven! Ragnarök, William Woodall

0.9.4 (2019-11-19)

• fix new linter warnings as of flake8-comprehensions 3.1.0 (#94)
• Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.9.3 (2019-11-13)

0.9.2 (2019-10-23)

• Fix launch_ros.actions.Node parsing function (#83)
• Add support for launching nodes not in a package (#82)
• Contributors: Michel Hidalgo

0.9.1 (2019-09-28)

0.9.0 (2019-09-25)

• Refactor Node parse() function. (#73)
• Handle zero-width string parameters. (#72)
• Promote special CLI rules to flags (#68)
• Add substitution for finding package share directory (#57)
• Use of -r/--remap flags where appropriate. (#59)
• install package marker and manifest (#62)
• Adapt to '--ros-args ... [--]'-based ROS args extraction (#52)
• Use node namespace if no other was specified (#51)
• [launch frontend] Rename some tag attributes (#47)
• Fix PushRosNamespace action (#44)
• Add PushRosNamespace action (#42)
• Add frontend parsing methods for Node, ExecutableInPackage and FindPackage substitution (#23)
• Restrict yaml loading in evaluate_parameters (#33)
• Fix typo
• Use wildcard syntax in generated parameter YAML files (#35)
• Contributors: Dan Rose, Dirk Thomas, Jacob Perron, Michel Hidalgo, Scott K Logan, ivanpauno

0.8.4 (2019-05-30)

• Update usage of 'noqa' for imports (#32)
• Contributors: Jacob Perron

0.8.3 (2019-05-29)

• Added the FindPackage substitution. (#22)
• Changed interpretation of Parameter values which are passed to Node() so that they get evaluated by yaml rules. (#31)
• Contributors: Shane Loretz, ivanpauno

0.8.2 (2019-05-20)

• Fix deprecation warnings (#25)
• Corrected matches_action usage in lifecycle_pub_sub example (#21)
• Contributors: Jacob Perron, ivanpauno

0.8.1 (2019-05-08)

0.8.0 (2019-04-14)

• Make 'ros2 launch' work again. (launch #201)
• Added LaunchLogger class (launch #145)
• Changed logger.warn (deprecated) to logger.warning. (launch #199)
• Added Plumb rclpy.init context to get_default_launch_description. (launch #193)
• Added normalize_parameters and evaluate_paramters. (launch #192)
• Added normalize_remap_rule and types. (launch #173)
• Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Dirk Thomas, Jacob Perron, Peter Baughman, Shane Loretz

0.7.3 (2018-12-13)

0.7.2 (2018-12-06)

0.7.1 (2018-11-16)

• Fixed setup.py versions (#155)
• Contributors: Steven! Ragnarök

0.7.0 (2018-11-16)

• Renamed transitions to match changes in lifecycle_msgs (launch #153)
  • TRANSITION_SHUTDOWN was deleted in lifecycle_msgs/msg/Transition.msg
  • Align with the code changes from https://github.com/ros2/rcl_interfaces/commit/852a37ba3ae0f7e58f4314fa432a8ea7f0cbf639
  • Signed-off-by: Chris Ye <<chris.ye@intel.com>>
• Added 'handle_once' property for unregistering an EventHandler after one event (#141)
• Added support for passing parameters as a dictionary to a Node (launch #138)
• Made various fixes and added tests for remappings passed to Node actions (launch #137)
• Added ability to pass parameter files to Node actions (#135)
• Added ability to define and pass launch arguments to launch files (#123)
  • See changelog in launch for details.
  • Signed-off-by: William Woodall <<william@osrfoundation.org>>
• Contributors: Chris Ye, Jacob Perron, William Woodall, dhood

0.6.0 (2018-08-20)

• Fixed a bug where launch would hang on exit by destroying the rclpy node on shutdown (#124)
  • Signed-off-by: William Woodall <<william@osrfoundation.org>>
• Fixed a race condition in emitting events by using loop.call_soon_threadsafe() (#119)
  • Signed-off-by: William Woodall <<william@osrfoundation.org>>
• Contributors: William Woodall

0.5.2 (2018-07-17)

0.5.1 (2018-06-27)

• Various Windows fixes. (#87)
• Contributors: William Woodall

0.5.0 (2018-06-19)

• Changed to use variable typing in comments to support python 3.5 (#81)
• First commit of the ROS specific launch API (#75)
  • ROS specific functionality for the new launch API.
• Contributors: William Woodall, dhood