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Distributions
What is a Distribution?
List of Distributions
Distro |
Release date |
Logo |
EOL date |
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June 5th, 2020 |
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May 2023 |
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Nov 22nd, 2019 |
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Nov 2020 |
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May 31st, 2019 |
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May 2021 |
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December 14th, 2018 |
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Dec 2019 |
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July 2nd, 2018 |
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Jul 2019 |
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December 8th, 2017 |
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Dec 2018 |
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September 13th, 2017 |
Dec 2017 |
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July 5th, 2017 |
Sep 2017 |
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December 19th, 2016 |
Jul 2017 |
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August 31th, 2015 |
Dec 2016 |
Distribution Details
For details on the distributions see each release page. For the supported platforms and versions of common dependencies and other considerations, see the official ROS 2 Target Platforms REP 2000.
Future Distributions
For details on upcoming features see the roadmap.
Currently there is a new ROS 2 distribution roughly every 6 months. The following information is a best estimate and is subject to change.
Distro |
Release date |
Supported for |
Planned changes |
|---|---|---|---|
May 2021 |
TBD |
TBD |
The expectation is to release new ROS 2 distributions once per year.
Rolling Distribution
The Rolling distribution of ROS 2 serves as a staging area for future stable distributions of ROS 2 and as a collection of the most recent development releases. Unlike most stable ROS 2 distributions which have an initial release, a support window during which they are updated, and a definite end of support (see List of Distributions above) the Rolling distribution is continuously updated and is subject to in-place updates which will at times include breaking changes.
Packages released into the Rolling distribution will be automatically released into future stable distributions of ROS 2. Releasing a ROS 2 package into the Rolling distribution follows the same procedures as all other ROS 2 distributions.
ROS 2 Rolling Ridley is the rolling development distribution of ROS 2 as proposed in REP 2002. It was first introduced in June 2020.
The Rolling distribution will receive frequent and possibly compatibility-breaking releases in core packages and we recommend most people use the most recent stable distribution instead. Since new stable distributions will be created from snapshots of the Rolling distribution, package maintainers who want to make their packages available in future ROS 2 distributions can do so by releasing their packages into the Rolling distribution.