Reporting published 9 November describes St. Vrain Valley Schools students flying a 300-drone show on 28 October in Holyoke, Colorado, for a Make-A-Wish recipient. Bad weather had shifted the event from the preceding Sunday, requiring a midweek deployment by the student team.
Read newsMultiGP's 2026 Collegiate Drone Racing Championship event results list Joshua 'PrincessJ' Lizee at the top of the individual standings, while its champions record names Virginia Tech as the university winner. Recent race coverage describes a finish reviewed on video.
Read newsQGroundControl PR 15437 proposes recognizing the ZeroOne M9 and X9 by USB vendor/product identity and classifying them as Pixhawk devices during connection.
Read newsArduPilot PR 34977 reports that SITL's UARTDriver:: flush() can wait forever during reboot if the SERIAL0 client stops reading or closes, or if baud limiting is enabled. It proposes bounded shutdown behavior.
Read newsMission Planner PR 3862 reports that the Android Flight Data and Plan views may show an empty map while overlay controls still appear. It proposes restoring control double buffering under XplatUIMine.
Read newsArduPilot PR 35064 changes a port check that rejected serial IDs only above an array's element count; a value equal to the count could pass and index beyond the final valid entry.
Read newsBetaflight PR 15989 describes an optional FACTORY or CUSTOM flag in vtxtable band parsing that leaves the channel index at -1 when writing frequencies. The proposed fix advances the parser correctly.
Read newsBetaflight PR 15988 says the aux, adjrange and vtx CLI commands previously checked upper bounds but not negative values returned by atoi(), allowing indexes such as -1 to select memory before an array. It proposes lower-bound validation.
Read newsArduPilot PR 35036 proposes fixing an out-of-bounds read in the F1 IOMCU bidirectional DShot telemetry decoder when the sampled buffer ends before a complete 21-bit packet.
Read newsPX4 PR 29541 proposes migrating older EKF2 AGP auxiliary global-position parameters to the 1.18 per-source EKF2 AGPn layout. The author says release/1.18 has the new setting structure without corresponding migration.
Read newsPX4 PR 29660 proposes a kinematic consistency check between GNSS position and velocity estimates. The author notes that code-pseudorange-derived position and Doppler-derived velocity can deteriorate differently under multipath or other faults.
Read newsArduPilot PR 34497 reports a crash if one OSD backend is disabled or fails to start while a second backend initializes. The proposal removes the hole left in the backend list.
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