Boreas 50 Firmware Release Notes 2.10

Firmware Version: 2.10 General Release

Target Hardware: Boreas A50, D50

Hardware Versions Supported: 1.1, 1.0

Date: 2026-03-23

Highlights

  • Improved external aiding source configuration, via INS Manager and ANPP Messages.
  • Fixed base RTK on Septentrio Mosaic-X5 variants.

New Features and Improvements

Communication Packets and Protocols

  • External aiding source configuration redesigned with unified lever-arm offsets and consistent status reporting across all aiding sources (adds/updates ANPP packets 95, 207, 208).
  • Add support for Septentrio Binary Format (SBF) input on auxiliary and GPIO ports.
  • Extended Device Information Packet adds bootloader_version and navigation_library_version fields (updates ANPP packet 13).
  • Septentrio Mosaic-X5 errors now reported via GNSS Failure status inside the System State Packet (updates ANPP packet 20).

Hardware and Platform Support

  • Added support for Hardware v1.1.
  • Updates the Aries GNSS receiver firmware to version 1.25.

Bug Fixes

Navigation

  • Fixed altitude being incorrectly capped on aerial vehicle profiles.

GNSS, RTK and Aiding Sources

  • Fixed missing RTCM input support for fixed-base RTK on units with the Septentrio Mosaic-X5 receiver.
  • Fixed an issue preventing aiding device offset configuration immediately after a firmware update. Legacy packets 185 and 196 are compatible with the new Aiding Source Configuration Packets (updates ANPP packets 207, 208).
  • Fixed incorrect population of the Satellites Packet (updates ANPP packet 30) when using the Septentrio Mosaic-X5 receiver.

Communication Packets

  • Fixed Heading and Azimuth fields falling outside the range 0 to 2π across primary output messages (updates ANPP packets 29, 39, 48, 59, 66, 76, 81, 93).
  • Fixed invalid gyroscope temperature values in the Sensor Temperatures Packet (updates ANPP packet 85).

Interfaces and I/O

  • Fixes an unexpected restart when receiving NovAtel binary data on a NovAtel-configured port.
  • Fixed incorrect pulse counts for Event 1 and Event 2 inputs.
  • Fixed nan and -inf values appearing in NMEA output sentences when a value was unavailable.
  • Fixed a configuration issue where an unsupported baud rate could make the device unresponsive on serial-only setups.
  • Fixed a crash when interrupting a firmware update via the bootloader.

Firmware Update

For the firmware update process - refer to "Firmware Update" section in the manual.