generated: '2026-09-14'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/aidinrobotics/aidin-hand2-sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
description: >-
  What AIDIN ROBOTICS publishes about the life of its interfaces is entirely inside the AIDIN Hand
  Gen2 SDK repository, and it is better than the company's web presence suggests. The CHANGELOG
  names its versioning scheme, names exactly which surface that scheme covers, marks breaking
  changes inline, and — unusually — explains the failure each breaking change prevents. What does
  NOT exist is everything an operator would expect from a service: no status page, no SLA, no
  deprecation policy, no sunset schedule, no published support window, and no release cadence
  statement. That asymmetry is honest for a company whose product is hardware: there is no uptime
  to report because there is nothing hosted to be up.
versioning:
  scheme: semver
  url: https://semver.org/
  covers: The public C++ API — headers under include/aidin_hand2/ and the CMake package
  current_version: 0.5.2
  current_version_date: '2026-09-10'
  pre_1_0: true
  note: >-
    The SDK is pre-1.0, and the changelog uses that freedom — 0.5.2 shipped a breaking soname
    change four days after 0.5.0. A consumer should read every minor bump as potentially breaking
    until 1.0.
breaking_change_practice:
  documented: true
  marker: '**Breaking:** prefix inside the Changed section, plus a GitHub [!IMPORTANT] callout'
  example: >-
    0.5.2 — "libaidin_hand2_kinematics.so.<SDK version> replaces libaidin_hand2_kinematics.so.1.
    Relink against this release; a consumer built against 0.5.1 looks for a file name this release
    does not ship."
  note: >-
    The callout on that entry describes a real field incident rather than a policy: under the old
    fixed soname, a 0.5.0 kinematics library satisfied a 0.5.1 consumer and two thumb actuators
    converted at half the counts per millimetre with no diagnostic of any kind. The breaking change
    exists to make that mismatch fail loudly.
deprecation_policy:
  published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  note: >-
    No deprecation or sunset policy is published for the SDK, the ROS driver or any product. Two
    de-facto deprecations are visible in the record and neither is announced: 0.5.1 told owners of
    the 2 mm thumb hardware to stay on 0.5.0 (withdrawn in 0.5.2 in favour of a build option), and
    the AFT_rs485 ROS driver targets ROS 2 Dashing Diademata, which reached end of life in May
    2021, with no successor named.
support_matrix:
  published: true
  source: https://github.com/aidinrobotics/aidin-hand2-sdk#system-requirements
  entries:
  - 'Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, x86_64 and arm64 — build and unit tests verified in CI on every push'
  - 'GCC >= 11, CMake >= 3.16, spdlog >= 1.9, can-utils'
  - 'CAN-FD capable SocketCAN device at 1 Mbit/s arbitration / 5 Mbit/s data'
  - 'PREEMPT_RT kernel recommended for the 500 Hz real-time loop'
  - 'ROS 2 Humble for the (unpublished) wrapper'
  note: >-
    CI is real and reported: GitHub Actions runs build and unit tests on four platform
    combinations and re-runs the unit tests under ThreadSanitizer, with the badge in the README.
    The README is explicit that this covers build and unit tests only — CAN-FD, PREEMPT_RT and the
    500 Hz loop are kernel-side and verified on the device.
status_page:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No status page exists and none is expected. AIDIN ROBOTICS hosts no service whose availability
    could be reported; its one network surface is a Wix platform endpoint on a marketing site.
sla:
  published: false
release_channel:
  git_tags: true
  latest_tag: v0.5.1
  github_releases: false
  note: >-
    The tag stream lags CHANGELOG.md by one version (tag v0.5.1 vs changelog 0.5.2) and no GitHub
    Release object has been cut, so a consumer watching releases sees nothing and a consumer
    watching tags sees a stale version. The changelog is the only accurate release record.
end_of_life:
  announced: []
  observed:
  - surface: AFT_rs485 (serial_rs485 ROS driver)
    signal: >-
      Last push 2021-01-21; newest branch targets ROS 2 Dashing Diademata (EOL May 2021). Not
      marked deprecated or archived by the company.