go/mcap/v1.9.0

What's Changed

• Standardized the default writer Header.library identifier from mcap go vX.Y.Z to mcap-go/X.Y.Z, matching the format used across MCAP SDKs. (#1702)

releases/rust/v0.25.0

Added

• Writer::add_schema_with_id and Writer::add_channel_with_id for writing records with explicit IDs without content de-duplication, so distinct IDs from a source file are preserved even when content is identical (#1632).
• Public mcap::VERSION and mcap::LIBRARY_IDENTIFIER constants (#1702).
• WriteOptions::DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE constant.

Changed

• Default writer Header.library string is now mcap-rust/<version> (was mcap-rs-<version>) (#1702). Breaking for anyone asserting on the exact string.
• Default chunk size increased to 1 MiB (was 768 KiB), standardizing with the other MCAP libraries (#1659).
• Established a minimum supported Rust version (rust-version = "1.81") (#1710).
• Dependency bumps: binrw 0.12 → 0.15, thiserror 1 → 2 (#1705, #1710).

Removed

• Removed unused McapError variants AttachmentInProgress, RecordTooShort, and UnexpectedChunkRecord (#1494). Breaking for code matching on these variants.

Fixed

• Corrected typos in several McapError messages (e.g. expeted → expected, mulitple → multiple) — note these are user-visible error string changes (#1492).
• Fixed typos and inaccurate references in doc comments, including ChunkIndex::compressed_data_offset now correctly documenting BadChunkStartOffset (#1607, #1516).

releases/mcap-cli/v0.1.0

The mcap CLI has been rewritten in Rust. It is a drop-in replacement for the
previous release (v0.0.x) with the same commands, a smaller binary, new remote
and read capabilities, and a number of other changes described below.

New features

• Expanded remote reads: added HTTP(S) and Azure Blob Storage, alongside the
  existing Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage support. Indexed reads (info,
  list, single-record get) use the file index to fetch only the bytes they
  need, with no full download.
• Self-contained ROS 2 .db3 conversion. mcap convert reads the message
  definitions embedded in ROS 2 bags (Iron and later) — no sourced workspace or
  --ament-prefix-path required.
• Reads and sorts files without an index. mcap cat now reads local files
  that have no index by scanning them in file order, and mcap sort now sorts
  unindexed files, instead of refusing them.
• Reads from pipes. cat, filter, compress, and decompress accept piped
  (non-seekable) stdin, so producer | mcap filter -o out.mcap works.
• Reads files with missing or incomplete summaries. info, list, and cat
  fall back to scanning the data section when the summary is absent or incomplete
  (printing a summary section not available; full scan may be slow warning to
  stderr), and resolve schemas/channels that are defined only inside chunks — the
  previous CLI silently reported such files as empty.
• Smaller binary: roughly half the size. The Linux amd64 binary is ~13.6 MiB,
  down from ~27.0 MiB.

Bug fixes

• mcap doctor no longer crashes when examining files with malformed summary
  records (a truncated or corrupt ChunkIndex, AttachmentIndex, Schema, Channel,
  Message, Metadata, MetadataIndex, or Header record previously caused a
  segmentation fault).
• mcap recover always produces a valid, readable output file. Recovery
  previously could write internally inconsistent chunk indexes for some inputs.
• mcap filter topic-regex filtering behaves correctly.
  Previously, when --include-topic-regex matched no channels (or
  --exclude-topic-regex matched every channel), the resulting empty topic set
  was treated as "no filter" and every message was silently passed through. Both
  cases now produce an empty result, as expected.
• No more crashes or silent data loss on malformed files. On chunk-indexed
  files whose summary does not fully list their channels and schemas (disallowed
  by the MCAP spec), the previous CLI could segfault and leave a corrupt partial
  output (sort), or silently write a file containing none of the input's
  messages (compress). The new CLI fails with a clear, actionable error
  pointing to mcap recover.
• Attachments are no longer silently dropped by compress, decompress, and
  filter. The previous CLI omitted attachments that weren't listed in an
  attachment index; they are now preserved and indexed in the output.
• mcap du totals now add up to the file size. Each record's reported size
  includes its on-disk framing (the 1-byte opcode + 8-byte length prefix), and
  attachment records are now included in the table; previously both were omitted,
  so the totals undercounted the file. Percentages are computed in double
  precision, removing rounding artifacts in the last digits (e.g. 66.666667).

Removed

• mcap version subcommand — use mcap --version, which now reports both the
  CLI and library versions (replacing mcap version --library).
• --config global flag (no $HOME/.mcap.yaml config file) — the flag was
  never actually used; no command ever read a value from the config file.
• --pprof-profile global flag.
• convert --ament-prefix-path — ROS 2 .db3 conversion now uses embedded
  message definitions.
• compress --unchunked — compressed output is always chunked by definition.
• recover --always-decode-chunk — chunks are now always decoded.

Other changes

• mcap recover signals data loss through its exit code: 0 = full recovery,
  3 = recovered but lossy/truncated, 1 = nothing recovered. Previously it exited
  0 as long as recovery started, even when data was lost. It now defaults to
  --compression preserve (was zstd) and always decodes and re-encodes every
  chunk to guarantee valid output.
• mcap convert selects the input type by file extension (.bag for ROS 1,
  .db3 for ROS 2) instead of inspecting file contents, so inputs must use a
  recognized extension. To convert pre-Iron .db3 bags that have no embedded
  message definitions, use ros2 bag convert first.
• Writing over the input file is refused by sort and convert. Using the
  same path for input and output previously truncated the input and lost data.
• Invalid --compression values are now rejected everywhere instead of being
  silently accepted.
• mcap add metadata rejects duplicate --key names instead of silently
  keeping the last value, and now allows = inside values (e.g. -k key=a=b).
• mcap completion <shell> now also supports elvish (in addition to bash,
  zsh, fish, and powershell), and rejects an unknown shell name with a usage
  error instead of printing help.
• mcap doctor reports every structural problem it finds and writes all
  diagnostics to stderr (previously it stopped at the first error and wrote some
  warnings to stdout).
• Usage/argument errors exit with code 2 (the conventional code) and errors
  are prefixed with Error: on stderr.
• CRC/chunk flags renamed: --include-crc → --no-crc and --chunked →
  --no-chunks on convert, merge, and sort (effective defaults unchanged).
• New global flags: --color {auto,always,never}, -v/--verbose
  (repeatable), and --allow-remote-scan.
• Remote whole-file scans require --allow-remote-scan. Indexed reads
  (info, list, single-record get) need no flag, but commands that read or
  download the whole file (filter, merge, convert, recover, or any
  linear-scan fallback) require it. With multiple remote inputs, each is
  downloaded independently, so peak temporary disk usage can approach the combined
  input size.
• Rewritten files record the CLI as the writing library
  (Header.library = mcap-cli/<version> mcap-rust/<version>) for compress,
  decompress, filter, sort, recover, merge, and convert, and no longer
  carry forward the source file's library value. mcap add leaves the original
  header untouched.
• mcap info now sorts compression lines, renders wall-clock start/end times
  in UTC, and shows absolute RFC3339 timestamps only for recordings dated
  2000-01-01 or later (older/relative timestamps render as decimal seconds).

releases/mcap-cli/v0.0.62

What's Changed

• mcap du: close chunkDataReader by @mguida22 in #1534
• mcap du: add --approximate flag for fast results on large files by @mguida22 in #1527

Full Changelog: releases/mcap-cli/v0.0.61...releases/mcap-cli/v0.0.62

releases/cpp/v2.1.3

What's Changed

• Fix a problem with schemas without messages

Full Changelog: releases/cpp/v2.1.2...releases/cpp/v2.1.3

releases/mcap-cli/v0.0.61

Added

• filter: Added --last-per-channel-topic-regex. This option includes the last message before the start time for matching topics when filtering on time. This helps produce well-formed MCAPs when some topics are logged very infrequently.

go/mcap/v1.8.0

What's Changed

• Added Info.CanReadMessagesUsingIndex() to report whether a file can be read through the indexed message iterator. (#1518)
• Fixed Reader.Messages(mcap.UsingIndex(true), mcap.InOrder(mcap.LogTimeOrder)) incorrectly failing on MCAP files with no messages. (#1518)
• Improved Reader.Messages behavior for unindexed files by returning a clear error when non-file-order reads are requested without an index. (#1456)
• Fixed an incorrect error message when parsing chunk indexes. (#1483)

releases/mcap-cli/v0.0.60

Fixed:

• cli: fix support for piping stdin to cat (#1515)

releases/python/mcap/v1.3.1

What's Changed

• python: allow topics specified as string by @james-rms in #1509

releases/python/mcap-ros2-support/v0.5.7

What's Changed

• python: allow topics specified as string by @james-rms in #1509