[Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi v5.18 is released

[Gautier Hattenberger]

Hello,

The latest stable version of Paparazzi is now released with v5.18_stable
tag.

One of the biggest changes is the complete rewrite of the build system
for the aircraft code generation (good old Ocaml stuff), plus the
addition of a proper dependency resolution for the modules. It has no
big impact for users so far, but in order to move forward, we will most
likely break a few things…

Hence, 5.18 will be the last of the series 5. The main branch is now
labeled with 6.0_unstable and will start by a big cleaning. Most
noticeable one is that the boards and tools based on lpc21 and stm32
bare-metal (using libopencm3) will be dropped. So the only supported
architectures will be Linux for simulation and Parrot drones and ChibiOS
for micro-controllers.

More in-depth changes will also come, including better usage of the new
dependency mechanism, rearrangement of the static scheduling of the
autopilot, and if possible a new set of messages for pprzlink (lot’s of
cleaning here as well…).

The complete changelog and release package are available at
https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/releases/tag/v5.18.0_stable

Stay safe, fly safe,

Gautier Hattenberger for the Paparazzi dev team.