It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of auksys/5. The stable branch in our repositories correspond to that version of the distribution. auksys/5 is compatible with Ubuntu 24.04 and later and ROS Jazzy.

You can check out our installation instructions.

Major changes

  • Port to Qt6 and cext.
  • Refactoring of FocusNode API, which uniformise access to Datasets, Agents… It was added to this release support for Simple Geographic Features, with a tool for extracting data from OpenStreetMap
  • knowX is replaced with knowBook which is loosely inspired by Jupyter Notebook. It currently allows to run SQL, SPARQL queries, extract data from OpenStreetMap

knowBook

  • Improvements to the kdb store command, and early support for a MQTT server and better integration of the web interface.
  • Switch to the new RDF Graph synchronisation protocol, with higher synchronisation efficiency under highly unreliable networking conditions.
  • SMQuery was removed, and replaced with krQL.
  • Docker images is a first class citizen for installing and distributing auKsys, images exists for the stable and development version, as well, as for older version (legacy/4). More information can be found in the documentation. We also introduced a tool auksys for conveniently using the docker images.

We have a guide to help transition from auksys/4 to auksys/5. The documentation is currently been updated, and in case of issues or questions, you can use our support.

Roadmap

  • The immediate roadmap includes updating the documentation.
  • The general focus of the project is currently on improving the usability, through documentation, and better tooling.
  • Tools that will receive special attentions are knowBook and the mission and knowledge center.
  • Very soon llama support comes back in pralin.
  • In the near future, we will include a module for properties graph.

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