Changelog#

CARET#

New: Added function to visualize response time with the stacked bar graph(CARET_analyze #265, CARET_analyze #259, CARET_doc #169)
Update: Added selective path definition to include or exclude first and last callback execution (CARET_analyze #263, CARET_analyze #271, CARET_analyze #272, CARET_analyze #273)
Added a new function to get difference between two Architecture objects (CARET_analyze #245, CARET_doc #168)
Removed deprecated interface such as callback_sched and Plot.create_*_plot (CARET_analyze #266)
Refactored visualization API such as message_flow (CARET_analyze #267)

Enhanced the trace filtering to exclude selected DDS events (CARET_trace #101)
Added the unit to the label of y-axis on time-series graph (CARET_analyze #256)
Refactored the Plot package (CARET_analyze #257, CARET_analyze #258)
Added the docstring for explaining rename methods for Architecture object (CARET_analyze #253)

Fixed the time format of the time-series graphs (CARET_analyze #255)
Added the design documentation for trace filtering to exclude events in DDS-layer (CARET_doc #158)
Moved get_range() function to record package (CARET_analyze #254)

Fixed the bug preventing check_ctf from running properly after supporting activation/deactivation on runtime (CARET_analyze #251)
Suppressed update frequency of progress bar from tqdm when reading trace data (CARET_analyze #248)
Fixed incorrect annotation from list to List (CARET_analyze #252)
Changed setup_caret.bash script to prompt users to install the packages (caret #72)

Added lightweight recording option to ros2caret (ros2caret #63)
Removed old interface of Plot.create_callback_jitter_plot (CARET_analyze #231)
Refactored Plot.create_callback_scheduling_plot (CARET_analyze #240)
Added new API to combine two paths found by Architecture.search_paths() (CARET_analyze #224)
Fixed the bug in Records class (CARET_analyze #246)
Applied minor refactoring (CARET_analyze #244, CARET_analyze #243, CARET_analyze #237, CARET_analyze #234)
Suppressed warning message outputted during runtime recording (CARET_analyze #238, CARET_analyze #236)
Added construction_order item to identify multiple callbacks which have common symbol (CARET_analyze #225)

New: Added functions to assign intra-node data path with message_context (CARET_analyze #196)
Update: Changed design of visualization API for refactoring to avoid usage of Pandas (CARET_analyze #116, CARET_analyze #167, CARET_analyze #168, CARET_analyze #170)
Added configure file to control log level to suppress warning message (CARET_analyze #220)
Changed behavior of visualization to output empty graph if inputted data does not have any data rather than raising exception (CARET_analyze #223)
Fixed ValueError, when create_publish_subscription_frequency_plot is called with being inputted empty object (CARET_analyze #227)
Added metric name to tooltip for identifying plots on a graph

New: Added a new feature to start, stop, and resume even recording whenever users want to (CARET_trace #68, CARET_analyze #190, ros2caret #48, and CARET_doc #126)

New: Added functions to rename subsystems in Architecture object like executor, node, callback and topic (CARET_analyze#156)
Suppressed warning messages, which are outputted because service event is not supported, during trace data loading (CARET_analyze#192)
Fixed bug which calculated incorrect period or frequency (CARET_analyze#213)
Fixed error messages from Mypy (CARET_analyze#211)

Added guidances for a beginner to avoid getting stuck in unexpected cases (CARET_analyze #200 and CARET_analyze #186)
Added publishers and subscriptions properties to Architecture and Application classes (CARET_analyze #179, CARET_analyze #180)
Added function to update cache file named as caret_converted (CARET_analyze#189)
Suppressed unnecessary warnings in check_caret_rclcpp (ros2caret #53, ros2caret #54)
Improved documentation of installation (CARET_doc #111), configuration (CARET_doc #112), visualization (CARET_doc #98), and design (CARET_doc#106)
Fixed a bug which makes incorrect graphs (CARET_analyze #201)

Improved warning messages of CARET_analyze (CARET_analyze #144, CARET_analyze #158, CARET_analyze #162, CARET_analyze #172, CARET_analyze #182)
Added properties of publishers and subscriptions to Application and Architecture object(CARET_analyze #179)
Improved ros2caret(ros2caret #44, ros2caret #50)
Enlarged buffer size(ros2_tracing #2)
Added some minor changes (CARET_analyze #183, CARET_analyze #187)

Added record function to ros2caret for upcoming feature. (ros2caret #38)
Added function to display histogram for response time (CARET_analyze #165)
Added API to calculate period and latency (CARET_analyze #167, CARET_analyze #168)
Fixed some bugs (CARET_analyze #141, CARET_analyze #153, CARET_analyze #157)
Refactored Architecture object interface (CARET_analyze)
Added some minor changes (CARET_analyze #139, CARET_analyze #146, CARET_analyze #147, CARET_analyze #151, CARET_analyze #159, CARET_analyze #162, CARET_analyze #165, CARET_analyze#171)

Supported OS: Ubuntu 22.04
Supported ROS Dist.: ROS Humble
Imported to Ubuntu 22.04 and ROS Humble
Added new feature to show response time (CARET_analyze #96)
Added new APIs to visualize frequency, period, and latency of publishes, subscriptions, and communications (CARET_analyze #124, #130, #133, #134, #136, #140)
Reduced memory consumption wasted for recorded data (CARET_analyze #100)
Launched CARET_analyze API document
Added small fixes