News

The !ArduPilot Mega (APM) community is centered around DIYDrones, which is the best place to go for daily news, discussion and support. If you have specific comments on the manual you can comment on each manual page here, but general tech and usage questions should be posted on the DIY Drones discussion forums.

The below are selected milestones and announcements:

• August 25, 2011: APM 2.23 released. Includes differential aileron/flap functionality. Corrected AIRSPD2PTCH_IMAX Mavlink parameter to work in GCSs. Fixed condition_change_alt command to handle decents properly

• August 15, 2011: APM 2.22 released. Many small improvements, including: MAVLink startup is now much faster and will work even if the hardware fails the calibration test. 5883 magnetometer bug fixed. Various (mostly minor) navigation bugs fixed. MAVLink comms improved.

• July 3, 2011: APM 2.20 released. Now supports the new standard magnetometer using the HMC5883L chip, which is autodetected. Also fixes problem with airspeed sensor autodetection in some setups. For now, to enable your airspeed sensor via the Mission Planner Configuration screen. Change the AIRSPD_ENABLE value to 1 to enable, then click "Write PIDs" to save. You can check that it's enabled correctly with the CLI Test "airspeed".

• June 9, 2011: Gorgeous new Mission Planner version (1.0) released, with a new Guided mode for real time "go here now" commands. Details here.

• May 2, 2011: APM 2.1 is released, which takes the 2.x project out of beta. Release details are here. The manual, Mission Planner and HK GCS have all been updated for APM 2.x.

• March 11, 2011; First APM 2.x beta released. This is a major update, including MAVLink-based telemetry, mission planning and two-way communications. Details in the announcement post here.