March 2026 monthly summary for foxglove-sdk focused on delivering cross-version ROS 2 compatibility fixes and advancing MCAP playback capabilities with extensible data loading. The work enhances reliability across ROS 2 versions, accelerates demonstrations and adoption of MCAP playback workflows, and sets groundwork for future data format integrations.

February 2026 – Foxglove SDK: Feature deliveries focused on secure credential management and public API exposure, with strong emphasis on developer experience, testing, and cross-language readiness. No major user-reported bugs this month; progress centers on reliability, security, and faster customer integrations.

Jan 2026 monthly summary: Key features delivered include protocol modernization to prepare for Foxglove protocol v2 with a dedicated protocol module and backward-compatible message reorganization; introduction of a v2 module with binary framing groundwork and new binary messages (Subscribe/Unsubscribe/MessageData) using channel IDs; build stability and packaging improvements to unblock ROS2 builds (suppressing deprecation warnings, ROS package version bumps, Dockerfile alignment); client count visibility via SDK upgrade; SDK cleanup removing agent code and CloudSink to pave the way for future bindings; and cross-distribution SDK releases (v3.2.3-1 and v3.2.4-1). Overall impact: stronger protocol extensibility, safer and more predictable builds, enhanced observability, and faster distribution readiness for end users.

December 2025: Delivered core playback enhancements and cross-language bindings for foxglove-sdk, focusing on reliable playback state management and extensible remote control. Implemented did_seek in PlaybackState to clearly signal playback discontinuities, updated binary layout and APIs across C, C++, and Rust, and refreshed tests and server bridging. Delivered Python bindings for the RangedPlayback capability, including PlaybackCommand, PlaybackControlRequest, PlaybackStatus, and PlaybackState, with server listener support, broadcast playback state API, and start_server enhancement to pass playback_time_range. Updated type stubs, Python docs, and non-public docs; added tests validating inputs and end-to-end playback state broadcast. This work enhances UI responsiveness, enables advanced playback automation, and strengthens cross-language interoperability for easier integration and scalability.

November 2025: Delivered strategic SDK updates, expanded playback capabilities, and stabilized ROS tooling to improve developer productivity and reliability of user deployments. The month focused on cross-repo coordination, ensuring customers benefit from the latest features with minimal integration friction, while laying groundwork for richer playback workflows and safer tooling across ROS ecosystems.

October 2025 monthly summary for foxglove-sdk focusing on user onboarding improvements and release/CI enhancements. Delivered two major items and prepared the groundwork for improved reliability and adoption.

September 2025 monthly summary for foxglove-sdk. Focused on delivering a stable, publish-ready Foxglove Bridge alongside targeted stability improvements to the CI/build environment. Key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and the resulting business value are summarized below.

August 2025 monthly summary for foxglove-sdk focused on security, reliability, and developer experience. Key investments were in secure WebSocket operations, reliability under load, automated release pipelines, and code quality. Observability work progressed with an SDK upgrade enabling RawChannel::log for structured logging, while a sink_id exposure change was reverted to maintain build stability.

July 2025 (2025-07) Monthly Summary for foxglove-sdk focusing on reliability, integration, and cross-language capabilities. Delivered a set of targeted fixes and features that improve message delivery guarantees, parameter fidelity, and ROS bridge readiness, while expanding language bindings and build support for broader adoption and ROS 2 compatibility.

June 2025 quarterly monthly summary for foxglove-sdk: Delivered a new Strict Build Mode for the C++ SDK, with CI and containerized builds enforcing the STRICT flag by default to gate builds on warnings. This aligns development and testing environments to a single quality baseline, enabling earlier detection of issues and more reliable releases across the SDK surface.