v0.2.3

Major features and improvements:

• Major speed up of ObjectNav evaluation by @ykarmesh in #867
• VER trainer implementation by @erikwijmans in #905, #906 and #907
• New tasks for the habitat challenge by @ASzot in #883
• New InstanceImageNav task by @jacobkrantz in #936 and #940
• Splitting habitat-lab and habitat-baselines into separate packages by @vincentpierre in #922
• Configuration system was moved from YACS to Hydra by @rpartsey and @vincentpierre in #977, #983 and #1000
• Fix to the MoveObjectReward measure by @SergioArnaud in #992 and #1010
• Port Stretch and Spot Robots to habitat by @jimmytyyang in #982, #1014 and #1018

Other improvements and bug fixes:

• Robot scripts were moved from habitat-sim to habitat-lab by @zacavis in #888
• Add support for multiple continuous or discrete actions in the gym wrapper by @vincentpierre in #891
• Make habitat-baselines use the gym API for training by @vincentpierre in #892
• Make LSTM recurrent state contiguous to fix errors by @vincentpierre in #901
• Render the last frame of evaluation videos by @vincentpierre in #904 and #924
• Replace RearrangeRLEnv and NavRLEnv with a single RLTaskEnv class for better readability by @vincentpierre in #902
• Add Polymetis usage example by @laikhtewari in #897
• CI test fixes by @ASzot in #915
• CI test fixes by @vincentpierre in #913, #912 and #921
• Bug fix for the observation transformer by @vincentpierre in #903
• Creating Static Manipulator Interface by @laikhtewari in #909
• Documenting habitat test scenes and pointnav episodes by @srama2512 in #916
• Improvements to the README by @dhruvbatra in #927
• Allow DDPPO to train any gym environment with compatible observation and action spaces by @vincentpierre in #930
• Fix mypy CI issue by @vincentpierre in #932 and #1023
• Fix Franka robot CI by @laikhtewari in #935
• Refactor the way rgb and depth observations are processed by the ResnetEncoder by @vincentpierre in #933
• New Franka robot block stacking task by @laikhtewari in #925
• Bugfix in ResNetEncoder by @vincentpierre in #938
• Enable all tasks configs for the auto gym tests by @vincentpierre in #939
• Change link to pretrained VQA encoders by @mukulkhanna in #942
• Multi-agent integration by @ASzot in #941
• Add human render option to the gym interface by @vincentpierre in #944
• Refactor mobile_manipulator and static_manipulator by @jimmytyyang in #948
• Fix the first observation after reset being from the wrong position by @vincentpierre in #952
• Switch CirecleCI versions by @mathfac in #958
• Fix an issue in which the simulation would not be properly reconfigured by @vincentpierre in #955
• Fix typos in the README by @0mdc in #962
• Added a habitat namespace in the configuration by @vincentpierre in #969
• Fix indentation error in gym wrapper code by @vincentpierre in #972
• Update CircleCi for Spot robot by @jimmytyyang in #967
• VER updates by @erikwijmans in #979
• Fixing merge config issue with VER by @vincentpierre in #984
• Fix links to documentation in example colab by @xavierpuigf in #987
• Change pytest-sugar version on CI to avoid a dependency issue by @0mdc in #994
• Add Stretch robot urdf to CircleCI by @jimmytyyang in #995
• Moving flake8 pre-commit dependency from gitlab to github by @vincentpierre in #1002
• Fixing circular import dependency for objectnav by @vincentpierre in #998
• Re-adding --add-ik to example script by @vincentpierre in #1004
• Changing copyright in files by @NakuraMino in #986 and #988
• Fix documentation path in gym example by @vincentpierre in #1016
• Fix manifest issues by @0mdc in #991
• Moving habitat2 documentation page to habitat-lab by @rpartsey in #1025
• Adding instance image nav paper reference by @jacobkrantz in #1020
• Bumping version numbers by @aclegg3 in #1026
• Routing new users to the new discussion page by @aclegg3 in #1027
• Updating CI tests for datasets by @vincentpierre in #1019
• Update the Readme to remove the Slack channel link by @dhruvbatra in #1031
• Large bug fixes for habitat 2.0 tasks by @ASzot in #959
• Bug fix for navigation task by @mukulkhanna in #1032

New Contributors

• @zachavis made their first contribution in #888
• @laikhtewari made their first contribution in #897
• @jacobkrantz made their first contribution in #936
• @jimmytyyang made their first contribution in #948
• @0mdc made their first contribution in #962
• @xavierpuigf made their first contribution in #987
• @SergioArnaud made their first contribution in #992
• @NakuraMino made their first contribution in #986

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3