Although INAV 1.4 was not released yet, it's going to happen very soon. When? Probably in the beginning of a next week. Release Candidate is already available and until now, there are no major bugs discovered.

So, what's new in INAV 1.4? Quite a few...

  • IMPORTANT: by default, motor output is disabled after flashing. This is to prevent servos from being damaged with too fast PWM rate. User has to enable motor output using Configurator (version 1.4 or newer) or with CLI command feature PWM_OUTPUT_ENABLE
  • Asynchronous gyroscope processing. I've described some time ago why this is good idea to have something like this. With 1.4, asynchronous gyroscope is available, but not enabled by default yet. I will try to write a longer article how to set it up later (I hope at least I will find time for it). Until then, this entry in INAV docs is all that has been written on the topic
  • Airplane launch assistant. Launching an airplane with INAV is almost as easy as it can be! You can read documentation on this feature on INAV Wiki
  • Improved throttle PID attenuation (or rather PID scaling) for airplanes. Read documentation on the topic
  • Emergency landing for airplanes
  • Experimental Pitot tube support (logging only) compatible with Pixhawk PX4 Airspeed Sensor
  • Improved handling for GPS+MAG and GPS+BARO configurations. With INAV 1.4 it should be not required to disable MAG and BARO when GPS is used
  • Improved failsafe
  • New targets: Airbot F4 / Flip32 F4, Omnibus F4 and YuPiF4
  • Multiple bugs fixed

Additionally, new version of INAV Configurator has been already released. All users are advised to update! With Configurator 1.4.1 and firmware 1.4 following new features will be available:

  • Possibility to enable motor output
  • Gyroscope hardware filtering (gyro_lpf) and syncing PID loop with gyroscope (gyro_sync) setup
  • Advanced PID tuning now allows to set:
    • Gyroscope software LPF cutoff frequency
    • Accelerometer software LPF cutoff frequency
    • D-term cutoff frequency
    • Yaw P-term cutoff frequency
    • MAG_HOLD yaw rate limit
    • Axis acceleration limits
    • Yaw P limit and yaw jump prevention limit
    • I-term ignore rates