Upcoming Release

Update procedure:

• axii self update
• New stable release channel was introduced, please switch to it as follows:
  • axii self change-release stable
  • Directly after the Axii update, you will be on the unstable channel of Axii due to the changes. The reason is that we switched the underlying branch names for development convenience reasons. You might see warnings about it directly after updating. Executing axii self change-release stable transitions you to Axii's stable release, which is the default you should use and which should be used on the robots.

Features:

• Allow registering executables that will be auto-generated by Axii and can prepare a specific environment (!172 (merged), !253 (merged), !254 (merged))
• Minor updates to our code formatting configurations (!205 (merged), !227 (merged), !231 (merged))
• New stable release channel for more save and convenient defaults (!226 (merged))
• Executables for module authors to simplify common problems in setup bash scripts (!257 (merged))
• Allow depending on multiple packages to provide a feature in a module definition (!222 (merged))
• archive update step now allows to define extract target name and if archive must be set executable (.run) (!258 (merged))

Modules:

• New tools/qtcreator/*: QtCreator (5.0.3: tools/qtcreator/5.0, 6.0.2: tools/qtcreator/6.0, 7.0.2: tools/qtcreator/7.0, and 8.0.0: tools/qtcreator/8.0) (!229 (merged), !235 (merged), !255 (merged), !262 (merged))
• New tools/pycharm/*: PyCharm 2022.2 (CE: tools/pycharm/community/2022.2 and P: tools/pycharm/professional/2022.2) (!234 (merged))
• New tools/clang+llvm/14.0: LLVM + Clang 14 (!225 (merged), !239 (merged), !256 (merged), !261 (merged))
• New tools/smt_management: SMT management module for RT PCs (!216 (merged), !239 (merged))
• New deps/opencv-4: OpenCV 4 (!218 (merged), !247 (merged))
• New deps/dlr_3d_object_tracking/ICG: DLR ICG (3D Object Tracking) (!219 (merged), !224 (merged), !246 (merged))
• New armarx_integration/robots/armar*/*_pcs/*Internal PC modules for ARMAR-6 (!248 (merged)) and ARMAR-7 (!245 (merged))
• New deps/azure-kinect/body-tracking for Microsoft Azure Kinect Body Tracking SDK (requestable as feature azure-kinect-body-tracking from VisionX) (!263 (merged))
• Renamed tools/git/2.35.1 to tools/git/2.35 (!259 (merged))
• Renamed apt/vtk6 to apt/vtk, installing vtk6 on Ubuntu 18.04 and vtk7 on Ubuntu 20.04 (!236 (merged), #154 (closed))
• Removed deps/mathlib: Use deps/epfl-dynamical-system/ds-adaptor instead (!244 (merged))
• tools/cmake/3.21: Declare executables (!252 (merged), !260 (merged) )
• deps/cartographer: Fix issue with Cartographer in CMake (!238 (merged), !240 (merged))
• deps/rc_genicam_api: Fix RC_GENICAM CMake config dir (!250 (merged))
• deps/manif: Fix manif CMake config dir (!251 (merged))
• armarx/VisionX, feature roboception: Roboception Genicam is now a feature of VisionX (!241 (merged))
• armarx/skills/control, feature mplib: Add feature to build MPLib-dependent controllers (!242 (merged))
• armarx/skills/control, feature mathlib: Add feature to build EPFL mathlib-dependent controllers (!249 (merged))
• h2t/PriorKnowledgeData.json: Declare all components as a feature of prior knowledge data (!203 (merged))
• deps/opencv-3/main and deps/openpose/caffe_custom: Explicitly set OpenCV for caffe, fixing errors on Ubuntu 20.04 (!237 (merged), #131 (closed), #155 (closed))

Fixes:

• An axii w upgrade will honour step exclusion steps again (--no-*) (!232 (merged), #139 (closed))
• Fix MODULE_* environment variables for global module (!233 (merged), #152 (closed))
• Use environment variables instead of trying to deduce script path (!230 (merged))
• Removed deprecated commands (!228 (merged))