Hi Everyone,

There is a new release of the FTC SDK on GitHub. If you update to the new release SDK, we also advise that you update the FTC Driver Station App. The new driver station app is available on Google Play.

Note that we will have a release of the FTC App Inventor appliance file very soon...

Here are notes for the release:

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Release 15.11.04.001

* Added Support for Modern Robotics Gyro.
- The GyroSensor class now supports the MR Gyro Sensor.
- Users can access heading data (about Z axis)
- Users can also access raw gyro data (X, Y, & Z axes).
- Example MRGyroTest.java op mode included.
* Improved error messages
- More descriptive error messages for exceptions in user code.
* Updated DcMotor API
* Enable read mode on new address in setI2cAddress
* Fix so that driver station app resets the gamepads when switching op modes.
* USB-related code changes to make USB comm more responsive and to display more explicit error messages.
- Fix so that USB will recover properly if the USB bus returns garbage data.
- Fix USB initializtion race condition.
- Better error reporting during FTDI open.
- More explicit messages during USB failures.
- Fixed bug so that USB device is closed if event loop teardown method was not called.
* Fixed timer UI issue
* Fixed duplicate name UI bug (Legacy Module configuration).
* Fixed race condition in EventLoopManager.
* Fix to keep references stable when updating gamepad.
* For legacy Matrix motor/servo controllers removed necessity of appending "Motor" and "Servo" to controller names.
* Updated HT color sensor driver to use constants from ModernRoboticsUsbLegacyModule class.
* Updated MR color sensor driver to use constants from ModernRoboticsUsbDeviceInterfaceModule class. 
* Correctly handle I2C Address change in all color sensors
* Updated/cleaned up op modes.
- Updated comments in LinearI2cAddressChange.java example op mode.
- Replaced the calls to "setChannelMode" with "setMode" (to match the new of the DcMotor method).
- Removed K9AutoTime.java op mode.
- Added MRGyroTest.java op mode (demonstrates how to use MR Gyro Sensor).
- Added MRRGBExample.java op mode (demonstrates how to use MR Color Sensor).
- Added HTRGBExample.java op mode (demonstrates how to use HT legacy color sensor).
- Added MatrixControllerDemo.java (demonstrates how to use legacy Matrix controller).
* Updated javadoc documentation.
* Updated release .apk files for Robot Controller and Driver Station apps.

T. Eng
November 5, 2015

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