carla/CHANGELOG.md

CARLA 0.6.0

• Included Unreal project and reorganised folders
• Enabled semantic segmentation by default
• Added Felipe's Pyhton client
• New build system (Linux only)
• Few fixes to city assets

CARLA 0.5.4

• Added command-line parameter -carla-no-hud
• Remove override gamma from weather settings
• Fixed issue road map generation hangs cooking command
• Organise Python client and make sample script
• Rename maps
  • CARLA_ORIGIN_0 --> Town02
  • CARLA_ORIGIN_1 --> Town01
• Fixed Carla-Cola machine falling at begin play

CARLA 0.5.3

• Fixed issues with weather
• Fixed missing building

CARLA 0.5.2

• Autopilot mode has been removed, now server sends AI control together with measurements every frame
• State and position of traffic lights and signs are now included in the measurements too
• Added a python console client
• Fixed crash when client sends an invalid player start
• Fixed some issues with the dynamic weather not looking as it used to do
• Fixed some collision boxes missing

CARLA 0.5.1

• Fixed issue server was destroyed on every reset, closing the connection
• Fixed issue agent servers connect too late
• Improvements to the python client
• Added python client test suite for testing the release
• Added image converter
• Fixed missing floor on CARLA_ORIGIN_0
• Changed sidewalk texture
• Improvements on the physics of some vehicles
• More props and decals added to the cities

CARLA 0.5.0

• Upgraded to Unreal Engine 4.17
  • Fixes memory leaks
  • Fixes crashes with C++ std classes
• Redesigned CarlaServer
  • Faster, avoids unnecessary copies
  • Sends images as raw data (no compression)
  • Supports synchronous and asynchronous mode
  • Networking operation have a time-out
  • Synchronous methods have a time-out
  • Pure C interface for better compatibility
  • Unit tests with GoogleTest
• New server-client protocol
  • Upgraded to proto3
  • Supports repeated fields
  • Optionally send information about all dynamic agents in the scene
  • Now sends transforms instead of locations only
  • Autopilot mode added to control
• New build system to avoid linkage issues
• Added autopilot mode
• Added an on-board camera to the car
• Added traffic lights and speed limit to player state
• Added player pawn selection to config file
• Improved blueprint interface of the C++ classes
• Some performance improvements to vehicle controllers
• Fix issues with depth material in Windows
• Fix issues with random engine not being available for vehicles
• Fixed issue that compiling a release hang when saving the road map
• Added more content; 7 vehicles, 30 pedestrians, many decals and props
• Randomized pedestrian clothing
• Many improvements and fixes to the city levels and assets
• Added sub-surface scattering to vegetation
• Added key binding to change weather during play
• Added key binding to toggle autopilot mode
• Added a second camera to the player

CARLA 0.4.6

• Add weather presets specific for each level
• Some map fixes, adjust weather presets specific for each level
• Fixed regression that some walkers may go at extremely slow and fast speeds

CARLA 0.4.5

• Add random seeds to config file
• Improve logging
• Removed rotation of map CARLA_ORIGIN_1

CARLA 0.4.4

• Fixed regression walkers despawning when stopping after seeing a car
• Changed, collision is only registered if player moves faster than 1 km/h
• Fixed issue walkers resume movement after sensing nothing, but the car is still there sometimes
• Few improvements to the city assets

CARLA 0.4.3

• Fixed issue with reward, intersect other lane wasn't sent to the client
• Improvements to the AI of other vehicles, and how they detect pedestrians
• Improvements to the AI of the pedestrians, trying to avoid slightly better the cars
• Made roads collision channel WorldStatic
• Tune several vehicles' physics and engine
• Fixed issue with vehicles bouncing back after hitting a pedestrian
• Add bigger box to pedestrians to avoid accidents
• Make vehicles spawn in order instead of randomly

CARLA 0.4.2

• Fixed issues with the server-client protocol
• More improvements to the AI of other vehicles, now they barely crash
• Improved the physics of some vehicles
• Tweak the city for better AI of other vehicles

CARLA 0.4.1

• Improved AI of other vehicles, still needs some adjustment, but now they crash much less
• Fixed wrong semantic segmentation label of the poles of traffic lights and signs
• Added randomized vehicle license plates
• Few improvements to the city assets

CARLA 0.4.0

• Made vehicle input more realistic, now reverse and brake use different input
• Changed server-client protocol
  • CarlaSettings.ini is sent for every new episode
  • Control is extended with brake, reverse and handbrake
• Set a clearer hierarchy for loading settings files
• Made camera post-process settings able to change depending on the weather
• Added basic functionality for NPC vehicles
• Some improvements to the walker spawner
• Generate road map metadata on save
• Added command-line switch -carla-no-networking
• Improved verbosity control of CarlaServer
• Fixed issue with server that two threads used 100% CPU
• Fixed issue with the attachment of the main camera to the player
• Fixed issues with CarlaServer interface with Unreal, does not use STL containers anymore
• Fixed issue with server not running below 30 fps at fixed frame rate, added physics sub-stepping
• Fixed issues with some weather settings
• Added randomized pedestrians with their AI and animations
• Added other vehicles with their AI and physics
• Added traffic lights and signs
• Tweaked capture image to look similar to main camera
• Changed car input to match settings in plugin
• General improvements to levels and assets

CARLA 0.3.0

• Added basic dynamic weather functionality
  • Weather and sun light can be changed during game
  • Presets stored in config file CarlaWeather.ini
  • Added some presets for dynamic weather
• Add basic functionality to spawn pedestrians
• Split road meshes for intersections and turns for better precission of the road map
• Better debug for road map
• Implemented collision count for other cars and pedestrians
• Command line argument -carla-settings now accepts relative paths
• Improved performance when semantic segmentation is disabled
• Improved tagger system
• Implemented nav-mesh and spawn points for pedestrians
• Added new cars
• Added dynamic street lights
• General improvements to levels and assets
• Make the car jump

CARLA 0.2.4

• Fixed serialization of road map resulting in a huge map size
• Some optimizations in the vegetation
• Implemented more LODS

CARLA 0.2.3

• Fixed rounding errors in HUD (100% was shown as 99%, 30 FPS as 29 FPS)
• Fixed crash when player goes out of road map
• Fixed several issues related to the transform of the road map (wasn't working in CARLA_ORIGIN_1)
• Make custom depth pass disable by default (semantic segmentation won't work by default)
• Fixed road width in T-intersections
• Implement road LOD
• Fixed missing assets

CARLA 0.2.2

• Implemented signals for off-road and opposite lane invasion
• Fixed linking issues (use Unreal's libpng)
• Fixed memory leak in PNG compression
• Added boundaries to the map
• Several fixes in the map content

CARLA 0.2.1

• Fixed the memory leak related to protobuf issues
• Fixed color shift in semantic segmentation and depth
• Added in-game timestamp (now sending both OS and in-game)

CARLA 0.2.0

• Fixed Depth issues
• Fixed random crash due to an invalid player start position
• Added semantic segmentation
• Changed codification to PNG
• Camera configuration through config INI file

CARLA 0.1.1

• Added build system for Windows and Linux
• Added more content

CARLA 0.1.0

• Added basic functionality