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@rerun-bot rerun-bot released this 18 Dec 15:06
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0.21.0
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Rerun is an easy-to-use visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.
Try it live at https://rerun.io/viewer.

📖 Release blogpost: https://rerun.io/blog/graphs

🧳 Migration guide: https://rerun.io/docs/reference/migration/migration-0-21

✨ Overview & highlights

Graph view

We've added two new logging primitives: GraphNodes and GraphEdges that can be used to visualize node-link diagrams. For this, we have implemented a new Graph View that uses force-based layouts to draw graphs.

This video demonstrates the main features of the new graph view:

graph_2_subtitles.mp4

You can also have a look at #7500 if you want to learn to more.

UX improvements

This video demonstrates the main UX improvements that went into this release:

0.21-ux-subs-convert.mp4

3D grid

The 3D view now offers an infinite 3D grid, enabled by default. Further controls and settings are available as usual through the blueprint API and/or the selection panel.

All the nitty gritty details in #8230 and #8234.

Undo/Redo support & many more UI/UX improvements

You can now undo/redo blueprint changes in the viewer!
Watch @emilk putting it to action and explains how it works:

undo-convert02.mp4

Other UX improvements

But that's not the only thing that improved in the viewer:

  • Breadcrumbs show up in the selection menu now

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  • Take screenshots of views from context menus

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  • Entities can now be dragged from Blueprint & Streams panel into views

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Index of code snippets

We now have a new index for all our code snippets.

You can use it to quickly find copy-pastable snippets of code for any Rerun feature you're interested in (API, Archetypes, Components, etc).
No special tools required -- all you need is a keyword of interest, and plain old text search.

It's still the early days so it is far from perfect, but we think it can already be quite helpful; feedback welcome.
Most of it is auto-generated, so it will never get out of sync!

⚠️ Breaking changes

  • Near clip plane for Spatial2D views now defaults to 0.1 in 3D scene units.
  • Blueprint: types and fields got renamed from .*space_view.*/.*SpaceView.* to .*view.*/.*View.*.
  • 3D transform arrow visualization show up less often by default.
  • DisconnectedSpace archetype/component is deprecated in favor of implicit invalid transforms (like zero scale or zero rotation matrix).
  • RotationAxisAngle with zero rotation axis is no longer treated as identity.

Read our 🧳 migration guide for more detailed information: https://rerun.io/docs/reference/migration/migration-0-21.

🔎 Details

🪵 Log API

  • End-to-end tagging: Rust #8304
  • Encode LogMsg using protobuf #8347

🌊 C++ API

  • End-to-end tagging: C++ #8316

🐍 Python API

  • Never direct users towards using rr.log_components #8151
  • Make it possible to log custom components using rr.send_columns #8163
  • Lint and fix python SDK (Py)RecordingStream upcasting issues #8184
  • End-to-end tagging: Python #8298
  • Rename space view to view everywhere #8396
  • Fix broken notebook loading on firefox by compressing the encoded wasm payload #8426
  • Add utility to rr.components.Color to generate colors from any string (and use it in the air traffic data example) #8458
  • Introduce new API to send a dataframe to Rerun #8461

🦀 Rust API

  • Update MSRV to 1.80 #8178
  • Remove Loggable::NAME -- Loggables do not have any semantics #8082
  • Never direct users towards using RecordingStream::log_component_batches #8149
  • Rust API: be explicit about when we're using the arrow2 crate #8194
  • Add from_gray16 for DepthImage #8213 (thanks @fawdlstty!)
  • Rust: more impl<AsComponents> helpers #8401

🪳 Bug fixes

  • Fix outlines for lines having more perceived aliasing since 0.20 #8317
  • Fix handling unnormalized axis for (Pose)RotationAxisAngle #8341
  • Fix 2D/3D view artifacts on view's border when using fractional zoom #8369

🌁 Viewer improvements

  • World grid part 1/2: add world grid renderer to re_renderer #8230
  • World grid part 2/2: Integrate into Viewer #8234
  • Add Undo/Redo support in the viewer #7546
  • Space view screenshotting in native viewer #8258
  • Remove selection history #8296
  • Make the near clipping plane editable in 2D views #8348
  • Don't show transform arrows on all entities without any other visualizer #8387
  • Do query for default components only once per view #8424
  • Improve hovered order in 2D views #8405
  • Remove wait-time when opening settings panel #8464
  • Deprecate DisconnectedSpace archetype/component in favor of implicit invalid transforms #8459
  • Improve graphics device capability detection, warn on old devices, early error on unsupported render targets #8476

🧑‍🏫 Examples

  • Add a new "Air Traffic Data" example #5449
  • Use video logging api in detect_and_track example #8261 (thanks @oxkitsune!)
  • Add hloc_glomap example and update manifest #8352 (thanks @pablovela5620!)
  • Introduce the Snippet Index #8383
  • Implement complete Graph View example #8421

📚 Docs

  • Update wheel build instruction #8235
  • Fix various doc links in SDKs #8331

🖼 UI improvements

  • Implement graph components and archetypes #7500
  • Add support for Bezier-curve multi (self-)edges #8256
  • Implement incremental graph layouts #8308
  • Revert label background color to that in 0.19 #8337
  • Add selection hierarchy breadcrumbs #8319
  • More compact selection panel when multiple items selected #8351
  • Make Position2D components editable in selection panel #8357
  • Dynamic configuration of graph layout forces through blueprints #8299
  • Document legend interaction in the timeseries view help text #8406
  • Allow drag-and-dropping multiple containers and views in the blueprint tree #8334
  • Improve picking in 2D views #8404
  • Make our collapsing triangle thinner for more consistency with our icons #8408
  • Entities can be dragged from the blueprint tree and streams tree to an existing view in the viewport #8431

🎨 Renderer improvements

  • Update egui to latest, update wgpu to 23.0.0 #8183

✨ Other enhancement

  • Improve rrd print's verbosity modes #8392
  • Miscellaneous improvements to archetype reflection #8432
  • Migration kernel for the blueprint space-view-related breaking changes #8439

🗣 Refactors

  • Add arrow(1)-interface on top of Loggable and ArrowBuffer #8197
  • re_types_blueprint -> re_types::blueprint #8419
  • re_viewer::reflection -> re_types::reflection #8420

📦 Dependencies

  • Numpy 2.0 allowed in pyproject.toml #8306 (thanks @Ipuch!)
  • Upgrade to egui 0.30 (+ ecosystem) #8516

🧑‍💻 Dev-experience

  • Add MainThreadToken to ensure file-dialogs only run on the main thread #8467

🤷‍ Other

  • Deprecate --serve, add --serve-web #8144
  • Clean up pass over all superfluous hashing happening on the query path #8207
  • Improve performance of time panel #8224
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