ROS 1.0.1 Released

The ROS 1.0.1 patch update has been released. This contains several patches, but no API changes. If you are using ROS 1.0.0, it is recommended to update.

Change list

• rospy: fixed bug in service generator with transitive dependencies (#2378, r8077)
• roscpp
  • Fixed bug where XmlRpcValue parameters were accidentally being cached when they shouldn't be (#2381, r8089)
  • Fixed bug where param::get()/NodeHandle::getParam() of XmlRpcValue parameters would always return true after the first call, even if the parameter didn't exist (r8091)
  • Fixed a crash on shutdown involving popping off an already-empty list (r8132)
  • Fixed bug in UDPROS XML/RPC exchange so that the subscriber receives the publisher's side of the connection header information (r8265)
• rosmake
  • Fixed log directory permissions ticket
  • Fixed typo Exception/Exceptoin (#2377)
  • more verbose error on rosdep failure
• roswtf: removed reference to netifaces, which has been disabled (r8152)
• test_msgs: reworked layout to not confuse roswtf (r8154)
• rossrv/rosmsg: fixed issue with field type resolution (r8191)
• roslaunch: better error message on unrecognized tags inside of <node> tag (r8296) and better error message if another master is running (r8309)
• rostest: creation of .ros directory fixed to use parent permissions (r8303 r8304)
• roslisp message generation: added type specifiers for fields and made them immutable. If you update to ros 1.0.1, you also need to update in the ros_experimental repository.
• rostopic: bug fix to -p option when printing empty fields
• rosgraph: better suppression of /clock when using -q option with rxgraph
• roswtf: better error message when connection to master lost during graph checks (r8420)
• rosbuild:
  • Updated download_checkmd5.py to use hashlib instead of deprecated md5 (#2385, r8128)
  • Fixed bug with cached build flags when moving packages (#2459, r8453).
• rosdep.yaml: added missing Boost packages for Ubuntu 9.04
• rosdep : improved robustness to invalid packages (#2406, r8250).