Release v1.4.0

Author: stephane-caron

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
-## Unreleased
+## [1.4.0] - 2023/2/8
 
 ### Added
 
+- Ability to load a robot description at a specific commit
 - Example: display all frames of a URDF description
 
 ### Fixed

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,15 @@ pip install robot_descriptions
 
 ## Usage
 
-The library provides a `load_robot_description` function for each of the following robotics software:
+The library provides `load_robot_description` functions that, given a description name, return an instance directly usable in the corresponding robotics software. For example:
+
+```python
+from robot_descriptions.loaders.pinocchio import load_robot_description
+
+robot = load_robot_description("upkie_description")
+```
+
+Loaders are implemented for each of the following robotics software:
 
 | Software    | Loader                                   |
 |-------------|------------------------------------------|
@@ -28,15 +36,7 @@ The library provides a `load_robot_description` function for each of the followi
 | RoboMeshCat | `robot_descriptions.loaders.robomeshcat` |
 | yourdfpy    | `robot_descriptions.loaders.yourdfpy`    |
 
-The function loads a robot description from its name, and returns an instance directly usable in the target software. For example:
-
-```python
-from robot_descriptions.loaders.pinocchio import load_robot_description
-
-robot = load_robot_description("upkie_description")
-```
-
-Loading will automatically download the robot description if you don't have it already, and cache it to a local directory.
+Loading will automatically download the robot description if needed, and cache it to a local directory.
 
 ### Import as submodule
 

robot_descriptions/__init__.py

@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@
 Import open source robot description as Python modules.
 """
 
-__version__ = "1.4.0rc0"
+__version__ = "1.4.0"