Endomorphism (September) release

The release

On 2015-07-13, Tau Labs shipped a release. This is the page that summarizes work on the next release cycle, aimed to be nominally 2.5 months long. The release is codenamed 'endomorphism' (name offered by @solidgoldbomb) This is to avoid issues where a release has been named something like "September release" in the past and then things got confusing when it didn't ship in September.

The nominal schedule

Date (scheduled)	Date (actual)	Milestone
2015-07-13	2015-07-13	Work begins
2015-08-09	2015-08-08	Deadline for high risk PRs to be opened
2015-08-16	2015-08-14	Tagging of high-priority issues for this release complete
2015-08-31	2015-09-01	Feature freeze: all functional work must merge before this date
2015-09-05		Production of first snapshot build for widespread test
2015-09-19		Creation of release branch; work begins on following release in next
2015-09-26		Nominal ship date

Potential snapshot-1 8515a25c

Vehicles

• Tricopter; Hobbyking X900; Quanton (MPL)
  • Default tuning good, surprisingly!
  • Flown so far: Leveling, Rate, Autotune
  • SBus, GPS interfaces verified in flight
• Quadcopter, 500-ish size with DJI arms, Sparky2 (MPL)
  • Flown so far: Leveling, PosHold, RTH
  • PPM, GPS, Pipxtreme telemetry
• 180-ish size laser cut acrylic, RevoMini (MPL)
  • Not flown yet
• 180-ish size laser cut acrylic, Naze32 clone (eMax Skyline32) (MPL)
  • Not flown yet
• Vtail, 285mm, Sparky1 (pug)
  • Sbus; Tested Autotune, Acro, Leveling, Horizon, AH, BT telemetry
• XQuad, 480mm, Sparky2 (pug)
  • PPM; Tested Autotune, Leveling, AH, PH, RTH, Pipxtreme telemetry
• XQuad, 700mm, Quanton (pug)
  • PPM; Tested Autotune, Acro, Leveling, AH, PH, RTH, Xbee telemetry

Test matrix for 1759

• DSM on CC - via Varcht
• GCS: Thorough test of UAV object browser constants / gaps
• GCS: Thorough test of board HW pane in config tab

	Sparky2	RevoMini	PipXtreme
USBHID USBTelemetry	MPL-OK 8/11-8/15	VAR-OK 8/15	MPL-OK 8/11b
USBVCP Telemetry	MPL-OK 8/12-8/15
USBVCP ComBridge	MPL-OK 8/15*	MPL-FIXED #1836*
USBVCP PicoC	MPL-OK 8/12-8/15	MPL-OK #1810	N/A
Rcvr PWM	N/A	VAR-OK 8/15	N/A
Rcvr PPM	MPL-OK 8/11-8/15	SG-OK 8/15
Flexi I2C			N/A
SBUS		SG-OK 8/15	N/A
PicoC	MPL-OK 8/12	SG- FIXED #1801*	N/A
DSM	MPL-OK NEXT	VAR-OK 8/15	N/A
Combridge	MPL-OK 8/15*	MPL-FIXED #1836*
GPS	MPL-OK 8/12	SG-OK 8/15
MavLink	MPL-OK NEXT	SG-OK 8/15	N/A
LightTelemetry			N/A
Radio	MPL-OK 8/11		MPL-OK 8/11b
Radio (openlrs)			N/A

• 8/11: e6cc049
• 8/11b: cc25793
• 8/12: 3a86cb9
• 8/15: f18976be
• *: failed on prior next/master, worked on feature branch

Known new issues / regression in Next branch

• QT 5.5 UI regressions / GCS crashes