Changelist#

Release history for the SimReady Foundation. Versions use the YYYY.MM.patch scheme and correspond to the release-<version> branches. The current version is recorded in VERSION.md.

Entries are newest first.

2026.06.0 — June 2026#

The runtime, packaging, and robotics content release. Adds a behavioral benchmark test suite, formal asset packaging standards, robot runtime coverage, and a large set of spec, profile, and validator refinements on top of the 2026.04.x packaging milestone.

Added#

Runtime testing & benchmark suite#

  • SimReady benchmark kit suite (simready-benchmark-kit-suite), a built-in runtime test suite that provides behavioral proof for features beyond static validators.

  • Faithful runtime robot tests: closed-loop joints, IK solver, and gravity-on articulation behavior.

  • Per-test reference docset for the runtime testing guides.

  • Published SimReady test library documentation.

  • batch_maker now consumes the simready_search PyPI package for job generation.

Asset packaging#

  • Asset Packaging Standards implementation and packaging capability.

  • simready-package sample workflow, with a thumbnail-presence check added to the package sample.

  • Published SimReady package library documentation and packaging workflow doc, incorporating product review feedback.

Features & requirements#

  • FET028 gripper runtime test pack (close, lift, shake, drop). The non-functional close-lift variant was dropped before release.

  • FET022 joint-rooted articulation support, spec-canonical discovery, and more actionable diagnostics.

  • optional tag support for multibody features in prop-specific profiles, so single-rigid-body props are not failed on multibody requirements.

  • com.nvidia.simready metadata namespace.

  • VM.TEX.002 material-texture color-space requirement (albedo color space).

Documentation & governance#

  • Onboarding, acceptance, and development workflow guides.

  • Spec scorecard restructure with reworked workflows, tables, and validation links, plus prioritized stories and governance docs.

  • GitHub docs URL wired into project_config.toml.

Changed#

  • Split the aggregate profiles.toml into nine per-profile TOML files under profiles/.

  • Renamed the kit test suite module/dist to simready-benchmark-kit-suite.

  • Updated the sample package to consume simready-package, following asset-validator and usd-profiles package updates.

  • Updated USD asset validator dependencies; added a numpy requirement, requirements.txt, and venv setup instructions.

  • Added SimReady Foundation entrypoint plugin support to the Asset Validator.

  • Added a sample_content validation test job to the CI pipeline.

  • Fixed capability requirement enum ownership.

Fixed#

  • NP.003/NP.005 naming/path conflict resolved and folder-layout enforcement corrected (bug 6243124).

  • HI.001 root-count check now excludes the Omniverse /Render scope.

  • Sub-threshold pivot offsets now report as SKIPPED rather than an advisory warning.

  • physx_to_isaacsim: fixed textures-folder casing mismatch in USD references.

  • Fixed duplicate collider produced after the Isaac transform.

  • UR10 profile and validation fixes; asset transformer update.

  • Security hardening: removed benign local-path references and applied additional security fixes.

Removed#

  • Deprecated requirement RB.006.

  • Removed the generated config.json from source control.

2026.04.1 — May 2026#

Patch release on top of 2026.04.0.

Added#

  • Bundled conformance and authoring skills.

Changed#

  • UR10 profile fixes.

Removed#

  • Removed in-progress testing docs that were not ready to ship.

2026.04.0 — April 2026#

The distribution milestone: SimReady validation became installable and runnable outside the docs repository, as both a Python package and a Kit extension.

Added#

  • simready-validate Python package with a python -m simready.validate CLI entry point.

  • Public PyPI wheel publishing via KitMaker (deploy-python-public), delivering the custom omni.capabilities / simready.validate.requirements alongside the package.

  • SimReady Foundations Validators Kit extension.

  • Initial robot specifications and related content developed from Isaac.

  • Onboarding documentation and simready-validate usage guidance.

Changed#

  • Cleanup of package dependencies and rules.

  • Feature generation fixed for automatic codegen.

  • Updated search library usage.

  • Added SonarQube exclusions.

Fixed#

  • Guarded all PhysxSchema usages against None.

  • Fixed import regressions causing ModuleNotFoundError in PyPI-only environments.

  • Fixed inherited material binding on an xform affecting thumbnail lighting rigs.