See the Changelog of the OctoMap library for details about the changes in 'octomap' itself.

ROS groovy

0.4.9 (2013-06-27)

• Fix for incremental 2D projection map updates (thanks to B.Coenen for the report)

• Publish free space as MarkerArray and CollisionMap on request (thanks to I. Wieser)

• New node octomap_server_static to server OctoMaps from files (no scan integration)

0.4.8 (2013-01-08)

• Added a nodelet version of OctomapServer (thanks to M. Liebhardt)

0.4.7 (2012-11-13) ROS Groovy

• Fixed for latest changes in groovy build infrastructure (catkin)

ROS fuerte

0.4.6.1 (2013-02-16)

• octomap_server: fixed manifest export, added missing nodelet_plugins.xml
• octomap_server: publishing of free space visualization, if parameter ~publish_free_space enabled

0.4.6 (2013-01-28)

• octomap_server manifest exports dynamic_reconfigure path in cppflags

• octomap_server & octomap_saver now properly support .ot and .bt files

• Added a nodelet version of OctomapServer (thanks to M. Liebhardt)

0.4.5 (2012-06-18)

• Experimental implementation of OctomapServerMultilayer, publishes 3-layered projected 2D maps

• Projected 2D maps can now be generated in area updated by sensor measurements only, map dynamically grows (enable parameter ~incremental_2D_projection; default is off)

0.4.4 (2012-04-20) ROS Fuerte

• Versions 0.4.x are now released in Fuerte

• deprecated octomap package in favor of a system-wide installed debian package

• separated octomap_ros package into octomap_ros and octomap_msgs stacks for better dependency resolution

• octomap_server: dynamic_reconfigure interface for multiresolution output

ROS electric

0.3.8 (2012-04-24)

• updated octomap package to OctoMap 1.4.2

• fixed point cloud transformation and ground filter in octomap_server
• dynamic_reconfigure interface for multiresolution output

0.3.7 (2012-02-22)

• updated octomap package to use new OctoMap 1.4 release (new file IO, support for color in octree)

0.3.5 (2011-11-01) ROS electric

• default ROS target is now the electric release
• code cleanup and refactoring of octomap_server
• improved compatibility with gcc 4.6 under Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric)

ROS diamondback

0.3.4 (2011-09-06)

• bugfix in raycasting, updated OctoMap version to 1.2.1

0.3.3 (2011-08-17)

• updated octomap package to use new OctoMap 1.2 release

• stack no longer include octovis, thus eleminating dependencies on Qt and OpenGL
• Fixed ground plane extraction in octomap_server

0.3.2 (2011-08-09)

• updated octomap package to use OctoMap 1.1.1 release (testing). Tarball now hosted on ros.org to eliminate errors on the build server

• ground plane extraction in octomap_server

0.3.1 (2011-07-15)

• Cleanup and refactoring
• logging in octomap according to ROS log levels

0.3.0 (2011-06-28)

• updated octomap package to use OctoMap 1.1 release (testing)

• merged back changes octomap_mapping experimental branch for testing: octomap_server now does scan integration in OctomapServerCombined, also sends out collision maps and downprojected 2D maps

0.2.0 (2011-03-16)

• updated octomap package to use OctoMap 1.0 release

• new octomap_ros package to ease ROS integration

0.1.2 (2010-11-23)

• fixed compatibility with ROS 1.3.1 for Diamondback / unstable

0.1.1 (2010-11-16)

• initial release of the octomap_mapping stack

• the octomap package is now based on OctoMap version 0.8