PX4 Dev Call: Nov 19, 2025 (Team sync, and Community Q&A)

Coordination Calls PX4 Autopilot
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PX4 Sync / Q&A - 2025-11-19T16:00:00Z

Agenda

  • Announcements
  • Future Events
  • Flight Testing Update
  • Release Discussion
  • Bug Report / Q&A

Announcements

The PX4 DevSummit Wrap up

Maintainers meeting minutes:

Future Events

Two upcoming PX4 Dev summits

Flight Testing Update

About the Test TeamThe team at Ascend Engineering (Chicago). are running flight testing for the community.

How to reach out to the team

GitHub: Tag user @PX4PX4PX4PX4**/testflights**

Discord: Flight Testing & Log Analysis

Weekly on the PX4 Dev Call

How to Request Testing (GitHub)

Write down the steps to te@PX4PX4t your issue/pull request

Make sure to note the risk involved in flying

Write down things to look out for / anticipate - eg: “we are looking for no yaw jumps”

Add issue/pull request to the Flight Testing project board

Make sure to specify any hardware/software requirements as much as possible

Updates:

  • The plan to test RTK GPS on 1.17a

Release Discussion

v1.16.1

New release tag is cut

v1.17.0-alpha1

Community Q&A / PRs for Review

PRs:

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This PR but mavlink signing and security concerns “in general.” We’ve gotten some recent security reports about mavlink being insecure. I’ve always understood it as - if an attacker has access to your mavlink channel you’re screwed. This is typically solved at the link/network layer. But defense in depth should be considered.

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