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Release Notes: Kilted Kaiju to Lyrical Luth

This list summarizes important changes between Kilted Kaiju (previous) and Lyrical Luth (current) releases.

controller_interface

The new MagneticFieldSensor semantic component provides an interface for reading data from magnetometers. (#2627)
The controller_manager will now deactivate the entire controller chain if a controller in the chain fails during the update cycle. (#2681)
The update rate of the controller will now be approximated to a closer achievable frequency, when its frequency is not achievable with the current controller manager update rate. (#2828)
The lifecycle ID is cached internally in the controller to avoid calls to get_lifecycle_state() in the real-time control loop. (#2884)
Added 2 new interface_configuration_types: INDIVIDUAL_BEST_EFFORT and REGEX. These allow for more flexible controller interface configurations. (#2902)

The bcolors class now respects the RCUTILS_COLORIZED_OUTPUT environment variable to automatically disable colors in non-TTY and CI environments.
The default strictness for switch_controller is changed to strict. (#2742)
A new parameter handle_exceptions is added to the controller manager to control whether exceptions thrown by controllers during update are caught and handled internally or propagated. (#2807)
Added new cleanup_controller service to the controller manager to allow cleaning up controllers from external clients. (#2414)

The lifecycle ID is cached internally in the controller to avoid calls to get_lifecycle_state() in the real-time control loop. (#2884)
Handles now also support float32, uint8, int8, uint16, int16, uint32, int32 data types in addition to double and bool. (#2879)

The simple_transmission and differential_transmission now also support the force interface (#2588).