Breaking changes

• Most non-simulation-related messages have been moved to the new ros_acomms_msgs package (!50 (merged))
• Removed the following and moved them to the ros_acomms_uuv project (!50 (merged)):
  • legacy_translator_node.py
  • ssp_node.py
  • xducer_safety_power_control.py
• Removed messages that had already been moved to the ros_iridium package (and should have been removed at that time) (!50 (merged)):
  • IridiumPacket.msg
• Removed sourcePublisher topic on acomms_driver_node and removed Source.msg message (!50 (merged))
• Moved example launch files to new ros_acomms_examples package (!50 (merged))
• Moved simulation components into new ros_acomms_modeling project (!50 (merged)):
  • modem_sim_node.py
  • Messages: Tick, Tock, SimPacket, Location (see also !60 (merged))
• Moved test code to new ros_acomms_tests package (!50 (merged))
• ltcodecs v1.0.0 or higher is required (!59 (merged))
• Removed TxInhibit and WriteNmeaString services (which were previously marked as deprecated) (!51 (merged))

New Features

• Improved message queue performance and reliability (!55 (merged))
• Improved queue status message (!52 (merged))
• Source code cleanup (!50 (merged))
• Added a bunch of stuff to .gitignore (!50 (merged))
• Support catkin build (!54 (merged))
• Added handling for message encoding exceptions (!59 (merged))
• Added faster-than-realtime simulation capability for CI (!58 (merged))
• Improved CI (!56 (merged))

Bugfixes

• Added missing requirements to requirements.txt: crccheck, bitstring, msgpack (!50 (merged))
• Fixed pinned versions for packages in requirements.txt so arlpy works (!53 (merged))
• Fixed some bugs in modem sim location handling (!60 (merged))
• Fixed race condition in modem sim due to acoustic_channel subscriber being initialized too early. (!60 (merged))
• Fixed several codec config parsing bugs (!57 (merged))
• Correctly handle codec defaults for destination and priority (#33 (closed))

Deprecation

• Marked packet_codecs rosparam as deprecated (!57 (merged)). It will be removed in a future release. (This used the rosparam loader to load codec files This doesn't handle includes, and it has all sorts of weird bugs, like not being able to handle uint64 literals due to a bug in the xml parser library used by roslaunch.)