2.9.0

Targeting ROS Humble

What's Changed

Bugfixes

• ur_calibration: Fix compilation with BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON on Windows (backport #1400) by @mergify[bot] in #1408
• ur_controllers: Fix compilation on Windows (backport #1402) by @mergify[bot] in #1412
• ur_moveit_config: Assure the description is loaded as string by @urfeex in #1452
• ur_robot_driver: Fix compilation on Windows (backport #1421) by @mergify[bot] in #1431

New features

• Add support for UR8 Long by @urfeex in #1491
• Added 'is in remote control' call as a dashboard service (backport #1433) by @mergify[bot] in #1436

CI/ Repo / Packages

• Auto-update pre-commit hooks (backport #1404) by @mergify[bot] in #1406
• Add a release config file for GitHub release note auto-generation (backport #1367) by @mergify[bot] in #1434
• Auto-update pre-commit hooks (backport #1440) by @mergify[bot] in #1441
• Set minimal velocity tolerance in passthrough trajectory test (backport #1443) by @mergify[bot] in #1444
• Auto-update pre-commit hooks (backport #1453) by @mergify[bot] in #1455
• Use the Python mirror for clang-format in pre-commit config (backport #1391) by @mergify[bot] in #1397
• Auto-update pre-commit hooks (backport #1422) by @mergify[bot] in #1424
• Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6 (backport #1487) by @mergify[bot] in #1492
• Auto-update pre-commit hooks (backport #1475) by @mergify[bot] in #1494
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 (backport #1479) by @mergify[bot] in #1498

Other

• Refactor prepare_switch method (backport #1417) by @mergify[bot] in #1427
• fix_flaky_force_mode_test (backport #1429) by @mergify[bot] in #1448
• Fix flaky controller switch test (backport #1447) by @mergify[bot] in #1450

Full Changelog: 2.8.1...2.9.0