* [BitBucket pull request 425](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/425)
1. parser\_urdf: print value of highstop instead of pointer address
* [BitBucket pull request 408](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/408)
1. Tweak error output so jenkins doesn't think it's a compiler warning
* [BitBucket pull request 402](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/402)
libsdformat 6.0.0 (2018-01-25)
1. SDF DOM: Added a document object model.
* [BitBucket pull request 387](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/387)
* [BitBucket pull request 389](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/389)
1. Add simplified ``readFile`` function.
* [BitBucket pull request 347](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/347)
1. Remove boost::lexical cast instances
* [BitBucket pull request 342](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/342)
1. Remove boost regex and iostreams as dependencies
* [BitBucket pull request 302](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/302)
1. Change certain error checks from asserts to throwing
sdf::AssertionInternalError, which is more appropriate for a library.
* [BitBucket pull request 315](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/315)
1. Updated the internal copy of urdfdom to 1.0, removing more of boost.
* [BitBucket pull request 324](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/324)
1. urdfdom 1.0 is now required on all platforms.
* [BitBucket pull request 324](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/324)
1. Remove boost filesystem as a dependency
* [BitBucket pull request 335](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/335)
* [BitBucket pull request 338](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/338)
* [BitBucket pull request 339](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/339)
1. Deprecated sdf::Color, and switch to use ignition::math::Color
* [BitBucket pull request 330](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/330)
libsdformat 5.x
libsdformat 5.x.x (2017-xx-xx)
libsdformat 5.3.0 (2017-11-13)
1. Added wrapper around root SDF for an SDF element
* [BitBucket pull request 378](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/378)
* [BitBucket pull request 372](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/372)
1. Add ODE parallelization parameters: threaded islands and position correction
* [BitBucket pull request 380](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/380)
1. surface.sdf: expand documentation of friction and slip coefficients
* [BitBucket pull request 343](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/343)
1. Add preserveFixedJoint option to the URDF parser
* [BitBucket pull request 352](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/352)
1. Add light as child of link
* [BitBucket pull request 373](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/373)
libsdformat 5.2.0 (2017-08-03)
1. Added a block for DART-specific physics properties.
* [BitBucket pull request 369](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/369)
1. Fix parser to read plugin child elements within an `<include>`
* [BitBucket pull request 350](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/350)
1. Choosing models with more recent SDFormat version with `<include>` tag
* [BitBucket pull request 291](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/291)
* [Issue 123](https://github.com/osrf/sdformat/issues/123)
1. Added `<category_bitmask>` to 1.6 surface contact parameters
* [BitBucket pull request 318](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/318)
1. Support light insertion in state
* [BitBucket pull request 325](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/325)
1. Case insensitive boolean strings
* [BitBucket pull request 322](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/322)
1. Enable coverage testing
* [BitBucket pull request 317](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/317)
1. Add `friction_model` parameter to ode solver
* [BitBucket pull request 294](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/294)
* [Gazebo pull request 1522](https://osrf-migration.github.io/gazebo-gh-pages/#!/osrf/gazebo/pull-requests/1522)
1. Add cmake `PKG_NAME_LIBRARY_DIRS` variable to cmake config file
* [BitBucket pull request 292](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/292)
libsdformat 5.1.0 (2017-02-22)
1. Fixed `sdf::convertFile` and `sdf::convertString` always converting to latest version
* [BitBucket pull request 320](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/320)
1. Added back the ability to set SDFormat version at runtime
* [BitBucket pull request 307](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/307)
libsdformat 5.0.0 (2017-01-25)
1. Removed libsdformat 4 deprecations
* [BitBucket pull request 295](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/295)
1. Added an example
* [BitBucket pull request 275](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/275)
1. Move functions that use TinyXML classes in private headers
A contribution from Silvio Traversaro
* [BitBucket pull request 262](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/262)
1. Fix issues found by the Coverity tool
A contribution from Olivier Crave
* [BitBucket pull request 259](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/259)
1. Add tag to allow for specification of initial joint position
* [BitBucket pull request 279](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/279)
1. Require ignition-math3 as dependency
* [BitBucket pull request 299](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/299)
1. Simplifier way of retrieving a value from SDF using Get
* [BitBucket pull request 285](https://osrf-migration.github.io/sdformat-gh-pages/#!/osrf/sdformat/pull-requests/285)