WATER_DEPTH clogging the mavlink transmission

ArduRover Rover 4.6
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With reference to this issue on github:
Rover: cycle through rangefinders when sending WATER_DEPTH by peterbarker · Pull Request #28877 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub

Is the fix (per December 24) included in the 4.6.0 beta ?

I installed the beta4 yesterday, and I see that the WATER_DEPTH message is still arriving at 50 Hz which is a real problem, and the data rate of the transmission I use increases 3-4 fold as soon as serial data from the transducer is detected by the autopilot. Resulting in occasional heartbeat timeouts.

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Hi @oaamaas,

That change didn’t make it into 4.6 but I’ve marked it for backporting now so it’ll go out with -beta5 which should happen later this week.

Thanks for the report and testing!

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