v19.0.0

v19.0.0 - 2026-04-24

Highlights

• Add new first class citizen V4 PointCloudsComponent for native point clouds and PointCloudsSourceProtocol for unified
  point cloud (native / lidar / radar) access. Support transformation of per-point attributes in a consistent way
  for invariant (no transformation) / direction-like (rotation only) and point-like (full transformation) attributes.

  Mild breaking change only for data-converters having to provide the list of native point-clouds (similar to sensors)
  in ComponentGroupAssignments.create() (using an empty list will be sufficient for most cases - this is just to not
  deviate from the existing sensor conventions).

  New point-cloud overlay rendering in ncore_vis (now supporting RGB attributes, if available)

• Add further .itar init performance improvements by re-using tail-buffer for lookup of compressed consolidated meta-data
  (if possible)

➕ Added

• (build) Set use_default_shell_env to True for Sphinx actions - (f1d8741) - Janick Martinez Esturo
• (converters) add --world-global-mode option for optional world_global pose storage - (8408067) - Janick Martinez Esturo
• add PointCloudsComponent with PointCloud type, PointCloudsSourceProtocol, V4 storage, adapter, tools, and visualizer - (8acc007) - Janick Martinez Esturo

🪲 Fixed

• (docs) update ncore_docs_data to v0.6 to fix missing camera.jpg image - (34aabcc) - Janick Martinez Esturo

⚡ Performance

• IndexedTarStore cache tail read to avoid duplicate I/O for in-range keys - (6a989f2) - Emmanuel Attia

📚 Documentation

• add S3 read performance section with benchmark results - (30483b2) - Janick Martinez Esturo