ROS 2

I’ve been advocating in several past posts for the use of LXD as a virtual development environment - see for instance “Setting up ROS 2 Jazzy with LXD”. But when setting up such environment for ROS 2, we find ourselves downloading hundreds of packages which may take some times.

ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco is out! ROS 2 Release Team did it again, shipping a brand new ROS 2 LTS distro. The latest release is named Jazzy Jalisco, a fine name given that the latest ROSCon (2023) was held in New Orleans!

Historically ROS has been developed on top of Ubuntu, relying on the distribution as a stable base providing tools (like GCC, CMake, Python to name a few) and libraries (such as Boost, Eigen, PCL) and following its release cycle (a distribution per year, an LTS every two years).

ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill is out! Congratulations to Open Robotics and through them to the entire ROS 2 community. This is really quite an event as it marks an important milestone: it is the first 5 year LTS release for ROS 2.

The 5th of June 2020 marks the release of ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy, a 3 years long-term support (LTS) release and the first ROS 2 distribution to target Ubuntu 20.04.