generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  registry.npmjs.org, pypi.org/pypi/<pkg>/json, repo1.maven.org, rubygems.org,
  crates.io queried 2026-09-05
attribution_note: >-
  ENTITY CAVEAT — read before treating these as 3DR SDKs. Every package below was
  published by the PRE-2023 3D Robotics, Inc. (registry metadata names
  "3D Robotics" as author and tim@3drobotics.com as the maintainer address, which
  is first-party). The company now trading as 3DR, Inc. at 3dr.com states on its
  own FAQ that "3DR Inc was a distinct entity before the year 2023" and that it
  provides no support for products sold under the earlier 3DR label
  (https://www.3dr.com/, 200). No `SDKs` pointer is wired into apis.yml for this
  file: these libraries are abandoned (last release 2019-03-18), they wrap a web
  API whose host no longer resolves, and the current entity disclaims them.
  Crediting today's 3DR with a maintained SDK program on this evidence would be a
  misattribution. The artifact is kept because a dated, first-party abandonment
  signal is exactly the decay evidence this pipeline exists to record.
packages:
- name: dronekit
  registry: pypi
  url: https://pypi.org/project/dronekit/
  language: python
  official: true
  official_basis: 'PyPI metadata author: "3D Robotics"; author_email tim@3drobotics.com'
  entity: 3D Robotics, Inc. (pre-2023)
  version: 2.9.2
  published: '2019-03-18'
  release_count: 34
  license: apache
  repository: https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-python
  note: >-
    DroneKit-Python — MAVLink vehicle API. Latest release 2.9.2 published
    2019-03-18; no release in over seven years. Depends on pymavlink >= 2.2.20.
- name: dronekit-sitl
  registry: pypi
  url: https://pypi.org/project/dronekit-sitl/
  language: python
  official: true
  official_basis: >-
    Companion simulator binary distributor for DroneKit-Python, published by the
    same DroneKit maintainer (PyPI author "Tim Ryan", 3DR engineer) under the
    github.com/dronekit organization.
  entity: 3D Robotics, Inc. (pre-2023)
  version: 3.3.0
  published: '2019-03-18'
  license: null
  repository: https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-sitl/
  note: >-
    Ships the ArduPilot SITL binaries used to test DroneKit apps without a
    vehicle. Same 2019-03-18 release date as dronekit; both were archived
    together.
- name: dronekit
  registry: npm
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dronekit
  language: javascript
  official: true
  official_basis: 'npm maintainer tim@3drobotics.com (tcr3dr)'
  entity: 3D Robotics, Inc. (pre-2023)
  version: 1.0.1
  published: '2015-06-02'
  license: null
  note: >-
    Test client for the DroneShare / DroneKit Cloud web API. Its own npm
    description reads "Tests the http://www.droneshare.com/ APIs. See
    http://api.3drobotics.com/swagger-ui/" — the clearest surviving evidence that
    3D Robotics once published a Swagger-described web API. Both hosts are now
    dead (api.3drobotics.com resolves NXDOMAIN as of 2026-09-05); see
    lifecycle/3d-robotics-lifecycle.yml.
- name: dronekit-android
  registry: maven
  url: https://github.com/dronekit/dronekit-android
  language: java
  official: true
  official_basis: 'Published under the DroneKit organization created by 3D Robotics'
  entity: 3D Robotics, Inc. (pre-2023)
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    CHECKED, NOTHING TO RECORD. DroneKit-Android (the "3DR Services" client) was
    distributed through JCenter/Bintray under com.o3dr.android, which shut down in
    2021. Maven Central has no such artifact — https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/o3dr/
    returns 404 (probed 2026-09-05) — so there is no registry metadata endpoint
    from which to read a version or a release date. Source remains on GitHub.
registries_checked:
- registry: pypi
  result: 2 first-party packages found
- registry: npm
  result: 1 first-party package found (plus one unrelated third-party "dronekitjs")
- registry: maven-central
  result: 'no com.o3dr group — https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/o3dr/ 404'
- registry: rubygems
  result: 'no gem — https://rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/dronekit.json 404'
- registry: crates.io
  result: 'no crate — https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/dronekit 404'
- registry: nuget
  result: not applicable; no .NET surface published by either 3DR entity
current_entity_packages:
  count: 0
  note: >-
    3DR, Inc. (2023-) publishes no client libraries of any kind. Its documentation
    (docs.3dr.com / 3dr.wiki) covers hardware bring-up, pinouts and firmware
    upload against upstream open-source projects (PX4, ArduPilot, ArduRemoteID,
    DroneCAN) that the company does not itself distribute as packages.