What's new

Below is summarized list of important changes. This does not include minor/less important changes or bug fixes or documentation update. This list updated every few months. For complete detailed changes, please review commit history.

Jan 2022

Latest release v1.7.0 for Windows and Linux

Dec 2021

Cinematographic Camera
ROS2 wrapper
API to list all assets
movetoGPS API

Nov 2021

Optical flow camera
simSetKinematics API
Dynamically set object textures from existing UE material or texture PNG
Ability to spawn/destroy lights and control light parameters

Sep 2021

Support for multiple drones in Unity

Aug 2021

Control manual camera speed through the keyboard
Latest release v1.6.0 for Windows and Linux
Fix: DepthPlanar capture
Fix: compression bug in segmentation palette

Jul 2021

Fixed external cameras
Fix: ROS topic names
Fix: Weather API crash

Jun 2021

Object detection API
GazeboDrone project added to connect a gazebo drone to the AirSim drone
Control manual camera speed through the keyboard
Octo X config
API for list of vehicle names
Fix: issue where no new scene is rendered after simContinueForTime
Fix:Check for settings.json in current directory as well

May 2021

Make falling leaves visible in depth and segmentation
Fix: Unity Car API
Latest release v1.5.0 for Windows and Linux
fix px4 connection for wsl 2.

Apr 2021

External physics engine
ArduPilot Sensor Updates
Add new build configuration "--RelWithDebInfo" which makes it easier to debug
Add ApiServerPort to available AirSim settings
ROS: Use the same settings as AirSim

Mar 2021

Add moveByVelocityZBodyFrame
Spawn vehicles via RPC
Unity weather parameters, weather HUD, and a visual effect for snow
Rotor output API
Extend Recording to multiple vehicles
Combine Lidar Segmentation API into getLidarData

Feb 2021

Add Ubuntu 20.04 to Actions CI
add tcp server support to MavLinkTest

Jan 2021

Added continueForFrames
Latest release v1.4.0 for Windows and Linux

Dec 2020

Add Actions script to build and deploy to gh-pages
Gym environments and stable-baselines integration for RL
Programmable camera distortion
Voxel grid construction
Event camera simulation
Add Github Actions CI Checks
Added moveByVelocityBodyFrame

Nov 2020

fix auto-detect of pixhawk 4 hardware

Oct 2020

[Travis] Add Ubuntu 20.04, OSX XCode 11.5 jobs

Sep 2020

Add Vehicle option for Subwindow settings
Disable cameras after fetching images, projection matrix
Add Wind simulation
New simRunConsoleCommand API
UE4: Fixes and improvements to World APIs
UE4: Fix random crash with Plotting APIs
Add backwards-compatibility layer for simSetCameraPose
Disable LogMessages if set to false
ROS: Removed double inclusion of static_transforms.launch
Add retry loop when connecting PX4 SITL control channel
Allow for enabling physics when spawning a new object

July 2020

Add Python APIs for new Object functions
UE4: Fix Broken List Level Option
Linux build improvements
Allow passing the settings.json file location via --settings argument
Distance Sensor Upgrades and fixes
Update to min CMake version required for VS 2019
Fix: Non-linear bias corrupts SurfaceNormals, Segmentation image
Fix: simGetSegmentationObjectID will always return -1
Initial implementation of simLoadLevel, simGet/SetObjectScale, simSpawn|DestroyObject APIs
Upgrade setCameraOrientation API to setCameraPose
ROS: All sensors and car support
Get rid of potential div-0 errors so we can set dt = 0 for pausing
ROS: Add mavros_msgs to build dependencies
Move Wiki pages to docs
Add Recording APIs
Update Dockerfiles and documentation to Ubuntu 18.04
Azure development environment and documentation
ROS: Add airsim_node to install list

May 2020

Fix more issues with PX4 master
Reduce warnings level in Unity build
Support for Unreal Engine 4.25
Unity crash fix, upgrade to 2019.3.12, Linux build improvements

April 2020

Fix issues with PX4 latest master branch
Fix Lidar DrawDebugPoints causing crash
Add docstrings for Python API
Add missing noise, weather texture materials
Update AirSim.uplugin version to 1.3.1
Camera Roll angle control using Q,E keys in CV mode, manual camera
Remove broken GCC build
New API - simSetTraceLine()
ROS package compilation fixes and updates
Latest release v1.3.1 for Windows and Linux
APIs added and fixed - simSetCameraFov, rotateToYaw
airsim Python package update to 1.2.8
NoDisplay ViewMode render state fix

March 2020

Latest release v1.3.0 for Windows and Linux
Upgraded to Unreal Engine 4.24, Visual Studio 2019, Clang 8, C++ 17 standard
Mac OSX Catalina support
Updated airsim Python package, with lots of new APIs
Removed legacy API wrappers
Support for latest PX4 stable release
Support for ArduPilot - Copter, Rover vehicles
Updated Unity support
Removed simChar* APIs
Plotting APIs for Debugging
Low-level Multirotor APIs
Updated Eigen version to 3.3.7
Distance Sensor API fix
Add simSwapTextures API
Fix simContinueForTime, simPause APIs
Lidar Sensor Trace Casting fix
Fix rare reset() bug which causes Unreal crash
Lidar sensor improvements, add simGetLidarSegmentation API
Add RpcLibPort in settings
Recording thread deadlock fix
Prevent environment crash when Sun is not present
Africa Tracking feautre, add simListSceneObjects() API, fix camera projection matrix
ROS wrapper for multirotors is available. See airsim_ros_pkgs for the ROS API, and airsim_tutorial_pkgs for tutorials.
Added sensor APIs for Barometer, IMU, GPS, Magnetometer, Distance Sensor
Added support for docker in ubuntu

November, 2018

Added Weather Effects and APIs
Added Time of Day API
An experimental integration of AirSim on Unity is now available. Learn more in Unity blog post.
New environments: Forest, Plains (windmill farm), TalkingHeads (human head simulation), TrapCam (animal detection via camera)
Highly efficient NoDisplay view mode to turn off main screen rendering so you can capture images at high rate
Enable/disable sensors via settings
Lidar Sensor
Support for Flysky FS-SM100 RC USB adapter
Case Study: Formula Student Technion Driverless
Multi-Vehicle Capability
Custom speed units
ROS publisher
simSetObjectPose API
Character Control APIs (works on TalkingHeads binaries in release)
Arducopter Solo Support
Linux install without sudo access
Kinect like ROS publisher

June, 2018

Development workflow doc
Better Python 2 compatibility
OSX setup fixes
Almost complete rewrite of our APIs with new threading model, merging old APIs and creating few newer ones

April, 2018

Upgraded to Unreal Engine 4.18 and Visual Studio 2017
API framework refactoring to support world-level APIs
Latest PX4 firmware now supported
CarState with more information
ThrustMaster wheel support
pause and continueForTime APIs for drone as well as car
Allow drone simulation run at higher clock rate without any degradation
Forward-only mode fully functional for drone (do orbits while looking at center)
Better PID tuning to reduce wobble for drones
Ability to set arbitrary vehicle blueprint for drone as well as car
gimbal stabilization via settings
Ability to segment skinned and skeletal meshes by their name
moveByAngleThrottle API
Car physics tuning for better maneuverability
Configure additional cameras via settings
Time of day with geographically computed sun position
Better car steering via keyboard
Added MeshNamingMethod in segmentation setting
gimbal API
getCameraParameters API
Ability turn off main rendering to save GPU resources
Projection mode for capture settings
getRCData, setRCData APIs
Ability to turn off segmentation using negative IDs
OSX build improvements
Segmentation working for very large environments with initial IDs
Better and extensible hash calculation for segmentation IDs
Extensible PID controller for custom integration methods
Sensor architecture now enables renderer specific features like ray casting
Laser altimeter sensor

Jan 2018

Config system rewrite, enable flexible config we are targeting in future
Multi-Vehicle support Phase 1, core infrastructure changes
MacOS support
Infrared view
5 types of noise and interference for cameras
WYSIWIG capture settings for cameras, preview recording settings in main view
Azure support Phase 1, enable configurability of instances for headless mode
Full kinematics APIs, ability to get pose, linear and angular velocities + accelerations via APIs
Record multiple images from multiple cameras
New segmentation APIs, ability to set configure object IDs, search via regex
New object pose APIs, ability to get pose of objects (like animals) in environment
Camera infrastructure enhancements, ability to add new image types like IR with just few lines
Clock speed APIs for drone as well as car, simulation can be run with speed factor of 0 < x < infinity
Support for Logitech G920 wheel
Physics tuning of the car, Car doesn’t roll over, responds to steering with better curve, releasing gas paddle behavior more realistic
Debugging APIs
Stress tested to 24+ hours of continuous runs
Support for Landscape and sky segmentation
Manual navigation with accelerated controls in CV mode, user can explore environment much more easily
Collison APIs
Recording enhancements, log several new data points including ground truth, multiple images, controls state
Planner and Perspective Depth views
Disparity view
New Image APIs supports float, png or numpy formats
6 config settings for image capture, ability to set auto-exposure, motion blur, gamma etc
Full multi-camera support through out including sub-windows, recording, APIs etc
Command line script to build all environments in one shot
Remove submodules, use rpclib as download

Nov 2017

We now have the car model.
No need to build the code. Just download binaries and you are good to go!
The reinforcement learning example with AirSim
New built-in flight controller called simple_flight that "just works" without any additional setup. It is also now default.
AirSim now also generates depth as well as disparity images that are in camera plane.
We also have official Linux build now!

Sep 2017

We have added car model!

Aug 2017

simple_flight is now default flight controller for drones. If you want to use PX4, you will need to modify settings.json as per PX4 setup doc.
Linux build is official and currently uses Unreal 4.17 due to various bug fixes required
ImageType enum has breaking changes with several new additions and clarifying existing ones
SubWindows are now configurable from settings.json
PythonClient is now complete and has parity with C++ APIs. Some of these would have breaking changes.

Feb 2017

First release!

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