🚀 Distro 2020.02 Released

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Hello @robotology/everyone 👋

This is to let you know that we have just finalized our Software Distro 2020.02 📦

As already announced in #377, this is a major release that comprises binary packages as well. Therefore, follow the updated instructions available in the wiki to upgrade your system and/or download the new dependencies.

You can find the tags composing this distro in our Software Versioning Table.

The binaries cover the following platforms:

• Ubuntu beaver 64-bits.
• Debian buster 64-bits.
• Windows 10 64-bits.

Be careful since we now strictly require you to:

1. Install CMake 3.12 as described in ⚠️ CMake 3.12 is required for the development branches #364.
2. Rely on YCM, which is now a mandatory dependency for icub-main. You'll find out more details in the installation instructions.

⚠️ Disclaimer

We have changed the way we produce installers for Windows as we now officially make use of vcpkg to handle dependencies. We have been consolidating this process and thus there are still known issues we are going to definitely fix in the next distro. Should you need help, don't hesitate to get back to us!

This distro is shipped with the updates and fixes reported hereinafter.

🆕 Updates

• All the robots contained in robots-configuration are compatible with the latest Motion Control Version 6.
  ⚪ Click to find the robots we specifically upgraded in this distro 🤖

  • iCubDarmstadt01
  • iCubEdinburgh01
  • iCubHeidelberg01
  • iCubLausanne02
  • iCubNancy01
  • iCubNottingham01
  • iCubSheffield01
  • iCubSingapore01
  • iCubTwente01
  • iCubHamburg01
• We cleaned up and made icub-main OpenCV4 ready as well as a number of sister projects we daily use as icub-tutorials, icub-basic-demos, icub-tests, iol, himrep, segmentation and a few more.
• We completed the update of icub-main to the use of std::mutex in place of the deprecated yarp::os::Mutex.
• We extended the red-ball-demo to cover the case of robots where a physical torso is not available like iCubChemnitz01:
  • robotology/robots-configuration@6bdfec9 fixed the matrix H0.
  • robotology/robots-configuration@79ec8b1 added custom LIC.
  • robotology/icub-main@facf989 allowed iKinCartesianSolver to deal with custom LIC, plus fixed handling of direct/reverse order w/ custom kin.

🐞 Fixes

• We fixed WBD crash caused by yarp::sig::Vector move semantic: see Problem with move semantic in yarp::sig::Vector yarp#2192.
• We also fixed spurious crashes of iCub_SIM due to an overload of calls to log directives: see iCub_SIM crashes in some circumstances icub-main#637.