PX4-Autopilot Main Release Notes

Alpha

This contains changes to PX4 main branch since the last major release (PX v1.16).

WARNING

PX4 v1.16 is in candidate-release testing, pending release. Update these notes with features that are going to be in main but not the PX4 v1.16 release.

Read Before Upgrading

TBD …

Please continue reading for upgrade instructions.

Major Changes

• TBD

Upgrade Guide

Other changes

Hardware Support

• TBD

Common

• QGroundControl Bootloader Update via the SYS_BL_UPDATE parameter has been re-enabled after being broken for a number of releases. (PX4-Autopilot#25032: build: romf: fix generation of rc.board_bootloader_upgrade).

Control

• TBD

Estimation

• TBD

Sensors

• TBD

Simulation

• TBD

Ethernet

• TBD

uXRCE-DDS / ROS2

• PX4 ROS 2 Interface Library support for Fixed Wing lateral/longitudinal setpoint (FwLateralLongitudinalSetpointType) and VTOL transitions. (PX4-Autopilot#24056).

MAVLink

• TBD

Multi-Rotor

• TBD

VTOL

• TBD

Fixed-wing

• Fixed Wing Takeoff mode will now keep climbing with level wings on position loss. A target takeoff waypoint can be set to control takeoff course and loiter altitude. (PX4-Autopilot#25083).

Rover

• Removed deprecated rover module (PX4-Autopilot#25054).

ROS 2

• TBD