We’re happy to announce that release 2026.04 is now available. This update introduces a dedicated CRTP port for the supervisor subsystem and a radio startup gate for more reliable early connections, along with a number of smaller bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Alongside the release, we’re launching a new crazyflie-demos repository with self-contained examples demonstrating real-world use cases. Thanks to our community contributors for their valuable additions to this release.
Major changes
Demos repository
The new dedicated crazyflie-demos repository hosts more complex examples that combine features or subsystems to demonstrate best practices and real-world use cases. Every demo in the new repository is self-contained, with pinned software versions.
CRTP supervisor port
A new dedicated CRTP port provides direct access to the supervisor subsystem, consolidating supervisor-related commands that had historically ended up on unrelated ports. Arming, crash recovery, and emergency stop commands now go through this port instead of being spread across the platform and localization ports. The old ports still accept these commands for backward compatibility. The new port also exposes supervisor state (armed, flying, tumbled, crashed, etc.) through a direct query, so clients no longer need to set up a log block just to check supervisor status.
Radio startup gate
The STM32 now signals the nRF51 when it’s ready to receive radio packets. Previously, if a client connected during boot, packets could arrive before the firmware was ready to handle them, causing lockups.
Lighthouse calibration saving fix
Fixed a bug that made saving lighthouse calibrations unreliable: a signature mismatch in a memory-read failure callback could leave the memory subsystem locked, blocking further reads until reconnect.
Release overview
crazyflie-firmware release 2026.04 GitHub
crazyflie2-nrf-firmware release 2026.04 GitHub
cfclient (crazyflie-clients-python) release 2026.4 GitHub, PyPi
