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Version 0.24.0 Release

This is a small release that contains two changes:

Firstly, the cloe-launch interface is significantly improved and simplified:

  • Launch profiles are no longer “managed”; instead use Conan recipes directly.

  • Arguments to Conan can be passed as-is after specifying the Conan recipe.

  • Common Conan errors are summarized for the user.

  • New command config lets you manage the launcher configuration.

  • New command deploy lets you create a binary deployment of a Conan recipe.

Secondly, this release includes the new frustum_culling plugin.

Read more about these changes and more here.

Version 0.23.0 Release

This version brings full C++17 support to Fable, with the following highlights:

  • Schema support for std::filesystem::path

  • Schema support for std::optional

  • Schema support for std::array

Boost is now an optional dependency, and requires inclusion of an extra header to use.

The old Array schema, which was for std::vector, has been renamed to Vector, and its header moved to fable/schema/vector.hpp.

Read all about these and the other many changes here.

Version 0.22.0 Release

This version includes the initial release of the ESMini simulator plugin binding.

The cloe-osi library is introduced for a re-usable mechanism of handling and converting Open Simulation Interface data.

The clothoid-fit component plugin for lane boundaries makes its entrance.

Finally, compile-time improvements for the fable library radically speed up the compilation of code that use the make_schema functions.

Read all about it here.

Version 0.21.0 Release

This version includes fixes and other improvements and represents a continuation of the previous releases before breaking changes are introduced in the next few releases.

Oat++ replaces the cppnetlib library, which allows us to remove any constraints regarding the version of Boost that can be used.

The launcher now provides a better error message when the engine cannot be located and issues with the Zsh prompt are fixed.

The web UI can insert triggers again.

Two significant bugs in the fable library have been fixed.

Finally, many small development and tooling changes are included in the release, but should not be relevant for end-users.

Read all about it here.

Version 0.20.0 Release

This version includes several improvements to the simulator plugin for VTD and an update to the stack file format, among other smaller improvements.

The vtd simulator binding now has support for VTD 2022.3, OpenScenario files, and the scp action to send SCP messages from triggers.

You can now integrate custom vehicle dynamics models as Cloe plugins.

The stackfile schema format has been updated to support minor versions.

Triggers can have an optional: true field set to make them not fail when the action or event does not exist.

The fable library has been refactored and may require you to include fable/schema/number_impl.hpp or fable/schema.hpp for your code to keep compiling. Compile performance should be better though.

The tooling in the project has been updated for better compatibility with Conan 2.0 and packages that use more recent Conan features.

Read all about it here.

Version 0.19.0 Release

This version contains some breaking changes in how the project is built. It also contains improvements across the board.

The Makefiles have been significantly refactored to simplify the build experience and reduce maintenance effort.

BATS tests use direct cloe-engine commands and are run within a cloe-launch shell. The profile used for tests is no longer conantest.py, rather multiple test configurations are stored in the tests/ directories themselves.

Optional packages are put in optional/ in their own subdirectory, along with all their own vendor packages.

The cloe-launch tool now has a subcommand prepare that can be used for building the runtime configuration of a conanfile.py “profile” that should be used with cloe-launch.

The cloe-engine package can be built with the most recent versions of Boost by disabling the server feature. The binary has gained several options and can read options from environment variables. These are aimed towards making testing orthogonal and easily reproducible. JSON Stackfiles can now contain comments.

Read all about it here.