Ardupilot 4.5 Released. BREAKING NEWS and some thoughts about the new release!
Channel: Tim the Plane Man
Date: 2024-04-07

The latest version of ArduPilot has some cool new features, enhancements, changes and bug fixes. I've combed through the release notes to find the highlights. Here they are! (according to me)

BREAKING NEWS - there was a bug in CRSF for ExpressLRS and TBS Crossfire with ArduPilot 4.5.0. This has been fixed in ArduPilot 4.5.1 which is now available.

0:00 Breaking News!
1:00 4.5.0 update
3:05 Key features
13:25 Camera/Gimbal features
13:53 Lua scripting
15:30 Safety!
17:00 Arming Checks RANT
18:50 Fence and Avoidance
19:50 ArduPlane centi- Parameters
28:42 Blowing my own horn!

ArduPlane 4.5 Release Notes: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/plane-4-5-release
ArduCopter 4.5 Release Notes: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/copter-4-5-0-released

Ardupilot Networking Discuss blog post https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/ethernet-and-tcp-ip-in-ardupilot/109779/38

ArduPilot Custom Build Server: https://custom.ardupilot.org

Links to related videos:
Andrew Trigell's bug analysis:  https://youtu.be/B7edxuvjD4o?si=UEgZ7pbO6AqkNF9k
My Cube Red video: https://youtu.be/Us86CS_QRBY
My Internet of Drones video: https://youtu.be/0zTmMi3aGfg