[ros-users] Release: OctoMap 1.4 and updated octomap_mapping stack

[Armin Hornung]

I'm pleased to announce the release of OctoMap 1.4, along with the 
updated octomap_mapping ROS stack for electric (see 
http://octomap.sf.net/ and http://www.ros.org/wiki/octomap_mapping). The 
updated viewer and visualization library "octovis" is available 
separately in the octomap_visualization stack.

The main new features since the latest stable 1.2 release are a new 
generalized IO functionality and file format for octrees, support for 
per-voxel color information in a specialized tree class (e.g. from the 
Kinect: http://youtu.be/9f32FmbtHCs) and full support for Linux, Mac OS 
and Windows (the latter still experimental). The API remained mostly 
unchanged.

Detailed changelog: 
http://octomap.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octomap/trunk/octomap/CHANGELOG.txt

Download OctoMap (stand-alone library and visualization): 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/octomap/files/octomap-1.4.0.tar.gz/download

Ubuntu packages for ROS electric are being built and will be available 
in your package manager soon. Until then, you can get the 
octomap_mapping stack from http://code.google.com/p/alufr-ros-pkg/



Your friendly neighborhood OctoMap team



-- 
Armin Hornung
Humanoid Robots Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Contact: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~hornunga