What's Changed

• man-pages: Remove COPYRIGHT section by @bgermann in #1340
• Bump urllib3 from 2.5.0 to 2.6.0 in /doc by @dependabot[bot] in #1346
• Clean up mrpt-maps, modernize API, mark deprecated classes for 2.15.3 for deletion on 3.0.0 by @jlblancoc in #1348

New Contributors

• @bgermann made their first contribution in #1340

Full Changelog: 2.15.2...2.15.3

Version 2.15.2: Released Nov 19th, 2025

• Changes in libraries:
  • \ref mrpt_maps_grp
    • mrpt::maps::CGenericPointsMap now supports fields of type double too.
• Others:
  • Fix appstreamcli warnings for metainfo files

Version 2.15.1: Released Oct 29th, 2025

• Bug fixes:
  • FIX: Avoid throw when viewing and describing as text a PCD with an empty field.
  • Avoid cmake errors when disabling libraries required by some unit tests.

Version 2.15.0: Released Oct 26th, 2025

• Changes in apps:
  • RawLogViewer:
    • Show stats for mrpt::maps::CGenericPoinsMap.
    • GUI options to colorize clouds by any point cloud field.
• Changes in libraries:
  • \ref mrpt_maps_grp
    • Add new mrpt::maps::CGenericPointsMap
    • Refactor around mrpt::maps::CPointsMap for more efficient generic insertion of maps in others with arbitrary per-point fields.
• Build system:
  • Completely remove any connection to ROS1 in this repository.

Version 2.14.16: Released Oct 15th, 2025

• Changes in libraries:
  • \ref mrpt_rtti_grp
    • More informative error message when calling clone() on a class without copy constructor.
• BUG FIXES:
  • Fix build building deprecated warnings in WorkerThreadsPool.
  • Fix mrpt::opengl::CPointCloudColoured throwing if the source cloud map may have color and color/intensity channels are actually empty.

Version 2.14.15: Released Sep 29th, 2025

• BUG FIXES:
  • Fix regression in OpenGL application crashing after last update.

Version 2.14.14: Released Sep 27th, 2025

• BUG FIXES:
  • Fix missing backported fix to build mrpt::lockHelper() on modern gcc
  • Fix OpenGL crashes under specific build flags: OpenGL Buffers and VBO changed so they are initialized after constructor.

Version 2.14.13: Released Sep 27th, 2025

• Changes in libraries:
  • \ref mrpt_math_grp
    • New classes mrpt::math::TOrientedBox, mrpt::math::TOrientedBoxf
• BUG FIXES:
  • Fix mrpt::opengl::CEllipsoid3D wrong direction.
  • Fix potential race conditions in TBB-parallel particle filters with 2D gridmap.
  • Harden opengl unit tests against crashes on non-GPU runners.
  • Fix build against ffmpeg 8.0 (Debian bug #1115064)

Version 2.14.12: Released Aug 31rd, 2025

• Changes in libraries:
  • \ref mrpt_opengl_grp
    • New method mrpt::opengl::CPointCloudColoured::setAllPointsAlpha().

• BUG FIXES:
  • Fix build against all tf2 versions in all active ROS 2 distributions.