OusterSDK + Ouster CLI 2023 Q2 Release

20230710 / Python Ouster SDK v0.9.0

With this release we are adding a bunch of things that we've used internally at Ouster for some
time and we hope it will be useful to a broader set of users well.

Major things:

Ouster SDK Lifecycle Policies

Please checkout the details here for C++/Python versions, OSs and platforms future support.

Add Python 3.11 support

On all platforms macOS, Windows, Linux, which should get between ~15-25% performance boost to Ouster Python SDK

Ouster CLI (Python)

Command Line Tools ouster-cli that combines basic and common actions to work with sensors:

• Discover connected sensors (ouster-cli discover)
• Configure sensors (ouster-cli source <SENSOR> config)
• Get sensors metadata (ouster-cli source <SENSOR> metadata)
• Record data to a pcap with metadata json stored along (ouster-cli source <SENSOR> record)
• Visualize data from sensor or pcap (ouster-cli source [<SENSOR> | <PCAP>] viz)
• Pcap slice and conversion operations (ouster-cli source <PCAP> {info,slice,convert})
• Run slam to get trajectories and registered point clouds (ouster-cli source [<SENSOR> | <PCAP>] slam)

Ouster Mapping (Python)

Mapping utilities + tools to save registered point clouds from pcap or running sensors that
accounts for sensor motion and deskews the cloud.

Ouster OSF (C++/Python)

C++/Python library to save stream of LidarScans with metadata. Used by mapping module to work with
scans + poses.

For more details please see the CHANGELOG.rst file.

Contributors:
@bexcite, Pavlo Bashmakov
@Samahu, Ussama Naal
@twslankard, Tom Slankard
@chrisbayruns, Chris Bayruns
@kairenw, Kairen Wong
@mtswisher, Michael Swisher
@celentes, Tim Talashok
@akatumalla-ouster, Alekhya Katumalla
@yhao10, Hao Yuan

Thank you to our contributors!

People are telling that image of Alpacas should be included in every release, so here we go:

This photo is taken by Philippe Lavoie and has been released into the public domain