Release v1.6 sign-off

[mrpollo]

Is your team ready for a release?

• Project / Founder - @LorenzMeier
• Communication Architecture - @bkueng , @julianoes
• UI / UX - @dogmaphobic, @DonLakeFlyer
• Multicopter Flight Control - @Stifael, @MaEtUgR
• VTOL Flight Control - @Tumbili, @AndreasAntener, @sanderux @bresch
  • VTOL standard
  • VTOL tailsitter
  • VTOL tiltrotor
• Fixed Wing Flight Control - @dagar, @priseborough
• Racers - @anton-matosov
• OS / drivers - @davids5
• UAVCAN / Industrial - @pavel-kirienko
• State Estimation - @jgoppert, @priseborough
• VIO - @mhkabir, @ChristophTobler
• Obstacle Avoidance - @vilhjalmur89 - not implemented in mainline codebase yet.
• Snapdragon - @mcharleb
• Intel Aero - @lucasdemarchi, @simonegu
• Raspberry Pi / Navio - @bkueng
• Parrot Bebop - @eyeam3
• Airmind MindPX / MindRacer - @iZhangHui
• Test team - @d3z0rian, @mrpollo

[jgoppert]

@priseborough how is EKF2 doing. I think LPE is stable.

[davids5]

There was a fix in upstream Nuttx this morning stm32_serial: fix freezing serial port I will need to back port. ASAP.

[dagar]

Could someone comment on the state of Pixhawk 3 support in v1.6.0? @klopezal, @sanderux

[mhkabir]

@dagar It is supported fully. We are waiting for fresh/fixed v1.3 hardware before we can polish the experience more. We are also extensively test flying it on a VTOL config.

[dagar]

Thanks @mhkabir. Could you do a quick pass and see if any of these are still relevant? https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Apixhawk3

[mhkabir]

Most of those issues have hardware fixes - but we don't have latest hardware yet, so they're still all relevant, yes.

[eyeam3]

PX4 on the Parrot Bebop is not running properly at the moment, but it should not gate the release.

[priseborough]

EKF2 has a PR pending for miscellaneous updates #7252.

Items 5 and 6 close vulnerabilities, and item 1 adds an important logging message for diagnostics, the others enable a 'nice to have' feature . I can split the 'nice to have' into a separate PR if required.

[davids5]

There was a fix in upstream Nuttx this morning stm32_serial: fix freezing serial port I will need to back port. ASAP.

PR is #7260

[priseborough]

I have closed the pending PR and split it into the robustness improvements that I think should go into the release:

#7265

And the nice to have:

#7264

[bkueng]

I think this one should go in: #7226 - done.

[LorenzMeier]

I flagged all PRs with the milestone that I think should still go in.
https://github.com/PX4/Firmware/milestone/22

[nicolaerosia]

navio_gpio is broken on RPI3, see #7241

[DonLakeFlyer]

FYI: I don't have time till tomorrow, then I'll do some SITL runs and sign off.

[sanderux]

@LorenzMeier should those pr's not go in before we test / sign off?

[nicolaerosia]

Maybe this should also go in #7272

[LorenzMeier]

I'm closing this as we discussed this on the last dev call.