CHANGELOG

Changelog for package ros2topic

0.32.6 (2025-09-11)

  • fix setuptools deprecations (#1066) (#1102)

  • Contributors: mergify[bot]

0.32.5 (2025-08-05)

0.32.4 (2025-04-24)

  • Custom Completion Finder for fetching topic prototype. (backport #995) (#1012) * Custom Completion Finder for fetching topic prototype. (#995) * Double yaml encoding for fetching topic prototype. * Use a custom completer for yaml strings. ——— (cherry picked from commit 526401b42107014f56f9d77dcf3df005f360bc91) # Conflicts: # ros2topic/ros2topic/verb/pub.py * resolve conflicts for backport. * Remove whitespace on blank lines ——— Co-authored-by: Leander Stephen D’Souza <leanderdsouza1234@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Tomoya Fujita <Tomoya.Fujita@sony.com> Co-authored-by: Shane Loretz <shane.loretz@gmail.com>

  • ros2topic: Documented now and auto keywords (#1008) (#1011) (cherry picked from commit 1a0dcf22b61534c9a391a7d60fbc95a972d23d06) Co-authored-by: Martin Pecka <peci1@seznam.cz>

  • Conditional deserialization of message for ros2 topic hz (backport #1005) (#1006) (cherry picked from commit bfc52454d07a1554226b56b64dfdbf5bcb6b3f6b) Co-authored-by: Kostubh Khandelwal <123073764+exMachina316@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Christophe Bedard <bedard.christophe@gmail.com>

  • Revert “jazzy: Backport Patch CVE-2024-42002 (#998)” (#1004) This reverts commit f037c1961f2b108be734d20c8f770c5e9d523856.

  • jazzy: Backport Patch CVE-2024-42002 (#998)

  • Contributors: Christophe Bedard, Michael Carroll, mergify[bot]

0.32.3 (2025-04-02)

  • Adapt tests to Zenoh (backport #988) (#991) * Adapt tests to Zenoh (#988) (cherry picked from commit 31d814d1c9e7cbe1bab9180ffb5f101707e02df4)

  • Adjust topic hz and bw command description. (#987) (#990) (cherry picked from commit 9a0c044ff08c89795fdfc66feb6cfe5fd3842f3a) Co-authored-by: Tomoya Fujita <Tomoya.Fujita@sony.com>

  • start the simulation from 1 second for the test. (#975) (#976) (cherry picked from commit 2c9c1933af37ae8a502a1c3abf2acf4ea810dc9e) Co-authored-by: Tomoya Fujita <Tomoya.Fujita@sony.com>

  • Contributors: mergify[bot]

0.32.2 (2024-12-18)

0.32.1 (2024-05-13)

0.32.0 (2024-04-16)

0.31.2 (2024-03-27)

0.31.1 (2024-02-07)

  • Remove parentheses from assert statement. (#878)

  • Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.31.0 (2024-01-24)

0.30.1 (2023-12-26)

0.30.0 (2023-11-06)

0.29.1 (2023-10-04)

0.29.0 (2023-08-21)

  • Load a message/request/goal from standard input (#844)

  • Contributors: ymd-stella

0.28.0 (2023-07-11)

  • Add marshalling functions for rclpy.type_hash.TypeHash (rep2011) (#816)

  • Contributors: Hans-Joachim Krauch

0.27.0 (2023-06-07)

  • [service introspection] ros2 service echo (#745)

  • Contributors: Brian

0.26.1 (2023-05-11)

0.26.0 (2023-04-28)

0.25.0 (2023-04-18)

  • remove deprecated options (#824)

  • Make all of the dependencies in pure Python packages exec_depend. (#823)

  • Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Tomoya Fujita

0.24.1 (2023-04-12)

  • Expect type hash cli output in test (#822)

  • Contributors: Emerson Knapp

0.24.0 (2023-04-11)

  • Fix the type annotation in pub.py. (#814)

  • Switch to using new event_handler instead of qos_event. (#787)

  • Contributors: Chris Lalancette

0.23.0 (2023-03-02)

  • avoid flaky test that subscriber might not receive the message (#810)

  • Adds a –max-wait-time option to ros2 topic pub (#800)

  • Contributors: Arjo Chakravarty, Chen Lihui

0.22.0 (2023-02-14)

  • Fix some flake8 warnings related to style. (#805)

  • Adds a timeout feature to rostopic echo (#792)

  • Refactor common types (#791)

  • Allow configuring liveliness in ros2 topic echo and pub (#788)

  • Extend timeout to shutdown the command line process. (#783)

  • [rolling] Update maintainers - 2022-11-07 (#776)

  • a couple of typo fixes. (#774)

  • Contributors: Arjo Chakravarty, Audrow Nash, Chris Lalancette, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Tomoya Fujita

0.21.0 (2022-11-02)

  • Add support use_sim_time for ros2 topic hz/bw/pub. (#754)

  • Use set_message_fields from rosidl_runtime_py (#761)

  • Contributors: Esteve Fernandez, Lei Liu

0.20.0 (2022-09-13)

  • Expand auto to the current time when passed to a Header field (#749)

  • Add verbose option to echo that also prints the associated message info (#707)

  • Contributors: Esteve Fernandez, Ivan Santiago Paunovic

0.19.0 (2022-04-29)

  • update docs for bandwidth functions. (#709)

  • Split the bandwidth functions into a get and print. (#708)

  • Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Tomoya Fujita

0.18.3 (2022-04-08)

0.18.2 (2022-03-30)

  • Add timeout to kill hanging tests (#701)

  • Contributors: Audrow Nash

0.18.1 (2022-03-28)

  • Add yaml dump flow style. (#698)

  • Contributors: Tomoya Fujita

0.18.0 (2022-03-01)

  • support ros2topic echo once option. (#695)

  • Fix special case for fastrtps incompatible QoS. (#694)

  • Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Tomoya Fujita

0.17.1 (2022-01-25)

0.17.0 (2022-01-25)

0.16.1 (2022-01-14)

0.16.0 (2022-01-14)

  • Depend on launch packages instead of ros_testing to avoid circular dependency (#685)

  • Add QoS history and depth information if available. (#678)

  • Cleanup mislabeled BSD license (#447)

  • Contributors: Shane Loretz, Tomoya Fujita, Tully Foote

0.15.0 (2021-11-18)

  • Update maintainers to Aditya Pande, Audrow Nash, and Michael Jeronimo (#673)

  • Updated maintainers (#670)

  • Update lost messages test case (#669)

  • Implementation of message filtering for ros2 (#654)

  • Change default QoSProfile for pub (#653)

  • Add option in ros2 topic pub to wait for N matching subscriptions, use N=1 by default when combined with –times (#642)

  • ros2 topic pub starts publishing right away. (#626)

  • Fix Topic Info Test with “Infinite” printing (#616)

  • Add changelogs (#635)

  • QoS autodetection (#613)

  • Make Lost Messages option ON by default (#633)

  • Contributors: Aditya Pande, Audrow Nash, Emerson Knapp, Gonzo, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Jorge Perez, Tomoya Fujita, matthews-jca

0.14.0 (2021-04-26)

0.13.0 (2021-04-06)

  • Add verbose info for topic list. (#351)

  • Contributors: ChenYing Kuo

0.12.0 (2021-03-02)

  • Remove maintainer. (#597)

  • Add option to support use_sim_time. (#581)

  • Add Audrow as a maintainer. (#591)

  • Contributors: Audrow Nash, Claire Wang, Tomoya Fujita

0.11.0 (2021-01-25)

0.10.1 (2020-12-08)

  • Add filter option to ros2topic . (#575)

  • Contributors: Jacob Perron

0.10.0 (2020-11-02)

  • Update deprecated qos policy value names. (#571)

  • Update maintainers. (#568)

  • Fix the test to use the topic name. (#566)

  • Improve the error message for invalid message types. (#558)

  • Use reliable QoS for ros2topic tests. (#555)

  • Add option to echo serialized messages. (#470)

  • Enable –no-daemon flag for some cli tools. (#514)

  • Use transient_local and longer keep-alive for pub tests. (#546)

  • Add –keep-alive option to ‘topic pub’. (#544)

  • Add option to ros2 topic echo to report lost messages. (#542)

  • Support QoS Depth and History via ros2 topic pub/echo. (#528)

  • Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Claire Wang, Dereck Wonnacott, Dirk Thomas, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Jacob Perron, Scott K Logan, tomoya

0.9.5 (2020-06-01)

  • Guard against passing None to rclpy subscriber. (#520) * Guard against passing None to rclpy subscriber Fixes #519 * Add regression test

  • Contributors: Jacob Perron

0.9.4 (2020-05-26)

  • Use consistent quotes in help messages. (#517) Using single quotes inside double quotes is consistent with the other CLI help messages.

  • Fix typo in ros2 topic delay help. (#510)

  • Contributors: Audrow Nash, Jacob Perron

0.9.3 (2020-05-13)

  • Make CLI more robust to discovery latency. (#494)

  • Contributors: Michel Hidalgo

0.9.2 (2020-05-08)

0.9.1 (2020-05-06)

  • Fix expectation of “Incompatible QoS” messages in unit test. (#496)

  • Contributors: Miaofei Mei

0.9.0 (2020-04-29)

  • Implement times for ros2 topic pub. (#491) * Implement times for ros2 topic pub

  • Stop using ‘node_name’ and ‘node_namespace’ in tests. (#498) They are both deprecated, and print warnings in CI like: Warning: The parameter ‘node_name’ is deprecated, use ‘name’ instead

  • [ros2topic bw] Monotonic clock, units, fstring. (#455) * Use monotonic clock to avoid system time jumps * Fix units on message sizes * Make bw message easier to understand * Use f strings * Add back [] * Update BW test regex

  • Replace deprecated launch_ros usage. (#487) The Node parameter ‘node_executable’ has been deprecated and replaced with the parameter ‘executable’.

  • Skip CLI tests on Windows until we resolve the blocking/hanging isuse. (#489)

  • Fix formatting of “ros2 topic info -v” output. (#473) * Fix formatting of “ros2 topic info -v” output * Improve test strictness vertical spacing of “ros2 topic info -v” output

  • Added incompatible event support to ros2 topic echo and ros2 topic pub. (#410) Co-authored-by: Miaofei <miaofei@amazon.com>

  • More verbose test_flake8 error messages (same as ros2/launch_ros#135)

  • Remove ready_fn from test descriptions. (#376)

  • Used get_available_rmw_implementations from rclpy. (#461)

  • Add delay when retrying tests involving the CLI daemon. (#459) This is to give time for discovery to happen between the daemon node and the test fixture nodes.

  • Enhanced ros2 topic info to display node name, node namespace, topic type and qos profile of the publishers and subscribers. (#385) Co-authored-by: Miaofei Mei <ameision@hotmail.com>

  • Use f-string. (#448) * Use f-string * Remove unused variable

  • Only load required entry points which improves the performance. (#436) * Extend API to exclude extensions from loading * Add add_subparsers_on_demand() function * Update all extensions to use the new API * Deprecate old API, add deprecation warnings

  • Add support for showing info of hidden topic. (#423)

  • [ros2topic] Use import message logic provided by rosidl_runtime_py. (#415) Connects to #218. Note that the action feedback logic in the echo verb was incorrect, resulting in a ModuleImportError. The new logic added in https://github.com/ros2/rosidl_runtime_py/pull/9 should fix the error.

  • Use imperative mood in constructor docstring. (#422)

  • Add timestamp to ros2topic test where needed. (#416)

  • Contributors: Alejandro Hernández Cordero, ChenYing Kuo, Chris Lalancette, Dirk Thomas, Ivan Santiago Paunovic, Jacob Perron, Jaison Titus, Miaofei Mei, Peter Baughman, Shane Loretz, Steven! Ragnarök

0.8.6 (2019-11-19)

  • [ros2topic] show default values for –qos-* Options. (#400)

  • Fix new linter warnings as of flake8-comprehensions 3.1.0. (#399)

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.8.5 (2019-11-14)

  • 0.8.5

  • Fix ros2 topic pub –node-name. (#398) * Fix ros2 topic pub –node-name * Give DirectNode node_name kwarg * Not node_name -> node_name is None

  • Contributors: Shane Loretz

0.8.4 (2019-11-13)

  • 0.8.4

  • Merge pull request #396 from ros2/BMarchi/assert_from_output_tests [ros2topic] Assert on listener node output for ros2topic cli test

  • Assert on listener node output for ros2topic cli test

  • Fix ros2topic test_echo_pub.py test suite. (#384)

  • [ros2topic] make info verb display the type of the topic. (#379)

  • Contributors: Brian Ezequiel Marchi, Brian Marchi, Michael Carroll, Michel Hidalgo, Mikael Arguedas

0.8.3 (2019-10-23)

  • 0.8.3

  • Refactor test_echo_pub.py pytest into a launch test. (#377)

  • End-to-end test coverage for CLI commands output. (#304) * Add end-to-end CLI output tests for ros2: - ros2action - ros2service - ros2topic - ros2msg - ros2srv - ros2interface - ros2node - ros2pkg

  • [ros2topic] Add test timeout for tests using subprocess. (#374) In case a subprocess hangs, then we are not waiting forever.

  • Move rosidl implementation details to rosidl_runtime_py. (#371) * Move rosidl implementation details to rosidl_runtime_py This resolves several TODOs. Here is the PR moving the related functions to their new home: https://github.com/ros2/rosidl_runtime_py/pull/3 * Remove dependencies on deprecated packages * Remove obsolete test * Make linters happy :)

  • Expose qos durability and reliability to ros2topic echo. (#283) * Expose durability, reliability, and preset profile QoS options to ‘topic echo’. Also add pytests for ‘topic echo’ and ‘topic pub’ to prevent future regressions against these new features * Simplify echo and pub tests to not use a timer, explicitly specify timeout parameter for subprocess calls * Patch stdin for windows test, and increase echo timeout for arm build * Disable tests for now on Windows until we figure out a proper workaround

  • Contributors: Emerson Knapp, Jacob Perron, Michel Hidalgo, Shane Loretz

0.8.2 (2019-10-08)

  • 0.8.2

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.8.1 (2019-10-04)

  • 0.8.1

  • Contributors: Michael Carroll

0.8.0 (2019-09-26)

  • Install resource marker file for packages. (#339)

  • Update setup.py version. (#331) Versions now match latest tag and package.xml.

  • Install package manifest. (#330)

  • Pass keyword arguments by name. (#317)

  • Add topic pub prototype completer. (#299)

  • Fix ros2 topic bw output units. (#306)

  • Add no_str and no_arr options for ros2 topic echo. (#216) * Add no_str and no_arr options for ros2 topic echo * Modify argument help

  • Print all types. (#275)

  • Add ‘topic find’ verb. (#271) * Add ‘topic find’ verb * Alphabetical order * Use TopicTypeCompleter * Replace TopicTypeCompleter with message_type_completer

  • Add ‘topic type’ verb. (#272) * Add ‘topic type’ verb * Fix doc * Add func return code

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Jacob Perron, Jeremie Deray, Michel Hidalgo, Vinnam Kim

0.7.4 (2019-05-29)

  • Only allow window sizes of 1 and higher. (#252)

  • Use system_default as qos for ros2 topic pub. (#245)

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Karsten Knese

0.7.3 (2019-05-20)

  • Use rclpy qos name translations instead of defining here. (#240) * Use rclpy qos name translations instead of defining here * Use revised name mapping APIs

  • [ros2topic] Update pub to use qos command line settings. (#238) * Update pub to use qos command line settings. * Clean up logic, remove type=str, add comment. * Address deprecation warnings.

  • [ros2topic] Handle multiple namespace parts in message type. (#237) Fixes #235. Now the ‘bw’, ‘hz’, and ‘delay’ verbs work again.

  • Fix deprecation warnings. (#234)

  • Contributors: Emerson Knapp, Jacob Perron, Michael Carroll

0.7.2 (2019-05-08)

  • Separate the yaml of messages with three dashes. (#230)

  • Add xmllint linter test. (#232) * Add xmllint test to ament_python packages * Cover new packages as well

  • Remove unused test dependency

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Jacob Perron, Mikael Arguedas

0.7.1 (2019-04-17)

0.7.0 (2019-04-14)

  • Use migrated message utility functions These functions are more generally useful outside of ros2topic and so they have been moved to rosidl_runtime_py.

  • Use safe_load instead of deprecated load. (#212)

  • Support array.array and numpy.ndarray field types. (#211)

  • Duplicate –include-hidden-topics in list verb. (#196)

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Jacob Perron, Mikael Arguedas

0.6.3 (2019-02-08)

  • Fix overindentation flake8 error. (#192)

  • Consistent node naming. (#158) * Support for easy integration with ros2 security features by starting CLI nodes with a consistent prefix. * Removing unneeded comment * Making DirectNode visible (removing hidden node prefix) to have consistent node naming for ros2cli. * Start all CLI nodes as hidden. * Shortening the default CLI node name prefix from ‘_ros2cli_node’ to ‘_ros2cli’ * Importing HIDDEN_NODE_PREFIX from rclpy, renaming CLI_NODE_NAME_PREFIX -> NODE_NAME_PREFIX. * Ros2node - Importing HIDDEN_NODE_PREFIX from rclpy * Linter fixes.

  • Contributors: AAlon, Shane Loretz

0.6.2 (2018-12-12)

0.6.1 (2018-12-06)

  • 0.6.1 bump package.xml, setup.py and setup.cfg versions

  • Delay/hz/pub/echo work with action feedback topic

  • Fix delay/echo/hz with hidden topics hz, delay, echo always check hidden topics

  • Contributors: Shane Loretz

0.6.0 (2018-11-19)

  • Move get_msg_class to API module The two methods get_msg_class and _get_msg_class are both used in delay and hz module, avoid cop-n-paste the code but move it into the api module and reuse it in both locations.

  • Small changes to optimize code * Remove confused “string to” on help * Move import to the top of the file * Use local variable instead of multiple funcion call.

  • Major function changes for hz cmd porting * Remove irrelevant code and reserve hz related code * Port rostopic hz to ros2topic based on ROS2 API format

  • Add ros2topic hz original file link

  • Copy original code for ros2topic hz porting Copy file from ROS1 and port to ros2. This file is originally from: https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/blob/6e5016f4b2266d8a60c9a1e163c4928b8fc7115e/tools/rostopic/src/rostopic/__init__.py

  • Port rostopic delay to ros2topic * Remove irrelevant code and reserve hz code (ros has only one __init__.py file include all topic commands, ros2 has splitted commands to isolated file) * Major functional changes of delay cmd with ROS2 API * Update license format to pass test_copyright * Use Time duration to compute the delay * Check window_size as non-negative integer, fix no print when set window as 1

  • Add rostopic delay original file link

  • Copy original file for ros2topic delay porting This file is originally copied from: https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/blob/6e5016f4b2266d8a60c9a1e163c4928b8fc7115e/tools/rostopic/src/rostopic/__init__.py

  • [ros2topic] use a timer instead of time.sleep. (#141) time.sleep will add the time the publish call takes to each cycle. Use a timer to avoid pub rate loss.

  • Contributors: Chris Ye

0.5.4 (2018-08-20)

  • Don’t truncate dictionary keys. (#137)

  • Fix echo sometimes printing ….. (#135)

  • [ros2topic] add missing rclpy dependency. (#134)

  • Fix echo for big array messages. (#126) Issue1: ros2 topic echo pointcould2(big arrays), has no response, updated the logical to make more sensible. a. (by default) full_length=false, truncate_length=128, then print max 128 (fix big arrays issue) b. pass truncate_length=X, then print max X. c. pass full_length=true (whatever truncate_length), then set truncate_length=None and print full_length. Issue2: missed truncate_length to _convert_value(). Since truncate_length is a key argument, pass it explicitly to _convert_value()

  • Contributors: Chris Ye, Mikael Arguedas, Shane Loretz

0.5.3 (2018-07-17)

  • Merge pull request #123 from ros2/limit_printing [topic pub] add option to limit printing published msgs

  • Remove default node name

  • [topic pub] add option to limit printing published msgs

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.5.2 (2018-06-28)

  • Fix echo for nested messages. (#119) * Fix echo for nested messages * Use string representation for bytes

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas

0.5.1 (2018-06-27 12:27)

0.5.0 (2018-06-27 12:17)

  • Pass actual node object to subscriber function. (#116)

  • Add pytest markers to linter tests

  • Ignore F841 from latest Pyflakes release. (#93)

  • Info verb for ros2topic. (#88) * Info verb for ros2 topic * Fix flake8 issues with the existing code in info.py * Add unit test for test_info() * Count publishers and subscribers in topic into * Add test for topic info * Fix flake8 issues. * Address PR feedback: - Update the output text - Rename the test topic name - Delete obsolete code * Use contextlib.redirect_stdout instead of a custom decorator * Remove single use vars

  • Set zip_safe to avoid warning during installation. (#83)

  • Allow to pass a node name to ros2 topic pub. (#82)

  • Print full help when no command is passed. (#81)

  • Contributors: Dirk Thomas, Mikael Arguedas, Nick Medveditskov

0.4.0 (2017-12-08)

  • [ros2topic] pub: add –repeat. (#66) * First shot at passing -r argument * [ros2topic] add once and rate parameters * [ros2service] add once and rate parameters * Simplify logic, add sleepd for once publisher and remove argparse * Fix spelling * Format default the same as argparse does * Format default the same as argparse does * Move logic to the right function * Mimic ros2topic and remove extra logic * Consistent with services

  • Merge pull request #64 from ros2/add_type_completer add type completer for ‘topic pub’ and ‘service call’

  • Add type completer for ‘topic pub’ and ‘service call’

  • Remove test_suite, add pytest as test_requires

  • Make sure to check errors when expanding the topic name. (#58) * Make sure to check errors when expanding the topic name. We need to catch ValueErrors when actually doing the expansion, then InvalidTopicNameException when doing the validation. * Switch to using the string from the original exception.

  • Support non-absolute topic names. (#57) * Support non-absolute topic names. If the user passes “/topic_name” to the ros2 echo command, it works properly. If they pass “topic_name” to the ros2 echo command, it fails to match. This change just allows us to deal with non-absolute topic names.

  • 0.0.3

  • Fix request message population. (#56) * Use set_msg_fields * Remove unused comment * Move function and error definition to api module * Use message filling method from ros2topic * Alphabetical order

  • Merge pull request #48 from ros2/improve_error_message better error message when passing an invalid value to ros2 topic pub

  • Better error message when passing an invalid value to ros2 topic pub

  • Use test_msgs. (#47) * Use test_msgs instead of test_communication * Remove unused message * Test all messages with fixtures

  • Merge pull request #46 from ros2/flake8_plugins update style to satisfy new flake8 plugins

  • Update style to satisfy new flake8 plugins

  • Implicitly inherit from object. (#45)

  • 0.0.2

  • Merge pull request #36 from ros2/improve_error_message better error message

  • Better error message

  • Update test

  • Truncate arrays, bytes, and strings by default, add option to show in full or use custom threshold. (#31) * Truncate arrays, bytes, and strings by default, add option to show in full or use custom threshold * Add short options

  • Merge pull request #27 from ros2/also_catch_value_errors also handle ValueError nicely

  • Also handle ValueError nicely

  • Merge pull request #24 from ros2/recursive_msg_population fix population of recursive message fields

  • Fix population of recursive message fields

  • Use yaml for parsing msg and srv values. (#19)

  • Merge pull request #15 from ros2/various_fixes various fixes and improvements

  • Add missing dependency on yaml

  • Various fixes and improvements

  • Revert no_demangle option until it can be fixed. (#9)

  • Refactor get topic names and types. (#4) * Ros2topic: use rclpy utility * Ros2topic: fixup * Ros2topic: support multiple types * Ros2service: initial commit * Ros2topic: support no_demangle * Fix include order * Missed a commit * Ros2service: add pep257 tests * Fix echo to support multiple types * Improve shutdown behavior of call, add loop option * Address comments

  • Merge pull request #5 from ros2/pep257 add pep257 tests

  • Add pep257 tests

  • Merge pull request #1 from ros2/initial_features Entry point, plugin system, daemon, existing tools

  • Add ros2topic echo, list, pub including previous tests for yaml/csv output

  • Contributors: Chris Lalancette, Dirk Thomas, Mikael Arguedas, William Woodall