ROS 2

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.