3.6.0: VEXLink and More!

Summary:

New Features:

✨Add Dedicated ADI Potentiometer Class
✨Add ability to change LLEMU text/background color.
✨Add VEXLink Support
✨Add Motor Stop Function
✨Add Task Join Method

Quality of Life and Bugfixes

🚸Make mutexes STL-compliant
🚸Removed internal ext_adi_gyro wrapper
🚸Implement Error Return Values For Screen API
📅Updated 2021 to 2022
📝Fix various header typos
🐛Fix rotation sensor race condition
🐛Prevent LLEMU Clearing Segfault

3.5.4

This minor update features an important bug release and a parameterless take function for mutexes.

🐛 Fix Digital Out Devices (Such as Pneumatics) on ADI Expanders (#329)
✨Define mutex_take() default parameter with an infinite timeout (#325)

3.5.3: Horse Load of Bugfixes

🚸 Linked List TODO Comment Updates/Warnings (#235) …
🐛 Fix deleted VM Image for Azure Pipeline (#319)
🐛 Fix -nostartfiles issue with newer versions of GCC on mac/linux
✨ Add C style task create for any void() callable (#317) …
🐛 Fix Reset IMU Function Timeout Logic (#320) …
✨ Newlib Stub Improvements (Usleep and Sleep) (#315) …

3.5.2: GPS Bugfix

This minor kernel release fixes a major bug relating to the GPS disabling the IMU API (C++).

3.5.1 - GPS Support!

Summary:

• ✨ Add Support for the Game Positioning System Sensor (#305)
• Fix Rotation Data Rate Setting (#302)

3.5.0 - Quality Post Event Update

Summary:

✨ Add Simplified Screen API Option (#299)
✨ Allow user code to query registry status (#282)
🚸 add pros::IMU alias (#293)
🔥 Deprecate PID setting functions (#294)
✨Added Delay to IMU Reset (#286)
✨Add rotation data rate function (#290)
⬆️ upgrade VEXos to 1.0.13 (#289)

Special thanks to @belericant and @TixoRebel !

3.4.0 - Here Comes Spring ☀️

Summary:

• Clarify rotation_get_angle API (#264)
• Fixed all instances of the license being outdated in file headers. (#272)
• Add missing filesystem syscalls (#275)
• Add Zeroing and Position Setting Functions for the IMU (#260)
• Change pros-cli-v5 to pros-cli (#277)

3.3.1 - sensors galore

Summary:

• fix ADI encoder documentation (#256)
• add support for the vex distance sensor (#257)
• add support for the vex rotation sensor (#258)
• add support for the vex optical sensor (#259)

3.3.0 - 🎶it's been a long day without you, my friend🎶

Summary:

• Fix integer overflow in millis() (#208)
• Fix how the Makefile generates spaces to resolve build issues with make >= 4.3 (#207)
• Fix flushing the command character in the serial daemon (#214)
• Refactor linker scripts to allow for custom linker scripts in templates (#213)
• Add std::string overload for pros::Controller::set_text (#216)
• Upgrade to vexOS 1.0.11 (#221)
• Increase maximum string width on the controller screen from 15 to 19 characters (#222)
• Add functions to delete mutexes (#231)
• Make pros::Task::notify_take static and pros::Task::operator= STL-compliant (#234)
• Add support for the ADI Expander (#245)
• Upgrade to vexOS 1.0.12 (#247)
• Remove redundant IMU calibration check (#236)
• Remove redundant library links to fix linking issues with gcc >= 10 (#233)
• Fix controller_clear_line behavior (#226)
• Msicellaneous documentation clarifications and edits (#220, #238, #244)

Special thanks to @Jerrylum, @ad101-lab, @djava, @theol0403, @Buzzec, and @nickmertin for their contributions!

3.2.1

Summary:

• Makefile dependency tracking (#167, #191)
• handle errors properly in VDML functions that return floating point values (#160)
• fix bug with port indexing in motor positional PID functions (#162)
• log exceptions to terminal (#179)
• add support for extra Make scripts (#170)
• clear up pros::Task constructor ambiguities (#182)
• allow tasks to be constructed from any void callable (#177)
• provide error when controller commands are being sent too quickly (#169)
• fix LVGL race and abandoned mutex (#180)
• fix clearing controller LCD (#185)
• update copyright dates (#193)
• add missing include directives (#195)
• suppress warnings for GCC 7.1 ABI change (#190)
• add support for vex inertial sensor (#187)
• enable LVGL on-screen keyboard (#198)
• add function to detect SD card presence (#189)
• add class function to get port number on motor, serial, vision sensor classes (#188)
• fix ultrasonic documentation (#199)
• add stubs so that GCC 9.x users can use hot/cold linking (#201)

Special thanks to @Jerrylum, @theol0403, @SpencerJ21, @Octogonapus, @nickmertin, and @TixoRebel for their contributions!

Upgrade notes

If you had to disable hot/cold linking or add filesystem stubs per #176 (affects some Linux and some macOS users), you may now re-enable hot/cold linking or remove the stubs (depending on which workaround you used).