Robotics Service Bus

We are happy to announce the release of version 0.13 of the RSB middleware.

The development activities in this cycle lead to the following improvements:

• We have a logo now
• All languages: The APIs have been unified, old method names deprecated
• Documentation: API documentation is now available inside the manual
• C++: Missing but requested plugins result in an exception now
• Java: New CITEC Maven server, update your config
• Java: Ant build system was removed in favor of a pure Maven project
• Java: Several small breaking API changes to be more standard compliant
• Tools: Symbolic link tool invocation has been removed. Use subcommands
• Tools: Logger uses monitor style per default now
• Tools: Scopes are now arranged in a tree in logger-like outputs
• Tools: New bridge command to connect separated bus segments
• RSBag: Symbolic link tool invocation has been removed. Use subcommands
• RSBag: Improved introspection support
• RSBag: Improved Python API stability

The following related projects have been released with RSB:

• RSBag
• RSB GStreamer Integration
• RSB XML Support
• RSB OpenCV Integration
• Robotics Systems Types (RST)

In the process, about 70 issues have been created and subsequently resolved.

This RSB release is available in the following forms:

• Source archives
• Pre-compiled self-installing archives
• Debian packages for different Ubuntu Linux versions
• Pypi packages
• Maven package for rsb[-xml]-java and rst (on CITEC server)

The former two can be downloaded from the continuous integration server:

• C++: https://ci.cor-lab.org/job/rsb-cpp-0.13/
• Python: https://ci.cor-lab.org/job/rsb-python-0.13/
• Java: https://ci.cor-lab.org/job/rsb-java-0.13/
• Common Lisp: https://ci.cor-lab.org/job/rsb-cl-0.13/

Debian packages can be downloaded from the repository server [1].

Installation instructions and links for downloading can be found on the
"installation" pages of the RSB manual [2] and the RSBag manual [3].

As always, bugs, feature requests and enhancement proposals can be
reported in the issue tracker [4].

For more detailed release notes see:

• Manual: http://docs.cor-lab.de/rsb-manual/0.13/html/index.html
• Roadmap item: https://code.cor-lab.org/versions/47

In the future, we will try to create new releases every two to three months.

[1] http://packages.cor-lab.org
[2] http://docs.cor-lab.org/rsb-manual/0.13/html/
[3] http://docs.cor-lab.org/rsbag-manual/0.13/html/
[4] https://code.cor-lab.org/projects/rsb/issues/new