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Kilted Kaiju (codename ‘kilted’; May, 2025)

Kilted Kaiju is the eleventh release of ROS 2. What follows is highlights of the important changes and features in Kilted Kaiju since the last release.

Supported Platforms

Kilted Kaiju is primarily supported on the following platforms:

Tier 1 platforms:

  • Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble): amd64 and arm64

  • Windows 10 (Visual Studio 2019): amd64

Tier 2 platforms:

  • RHEL 9: amd64

Tier 3 platforms:

  • macOS: amd64

  • Debian Bookworm: amd64

For more information about RMW implementations, compiler / interpreter versions, and system dependency versions see REP 2000.

Installation

TODO

New features in this ROS 2 release

Development progress

For progress on the development of Kiltled Kaiju, see this project board.

For the broad process followed by Kilted Kaiju, see the process description page.

Release Timeline

December, 2024 - Platform decisions

REP 2000 is updated with the target platforms and major dependency versions.

Mon. April 7, 2025 - Alpha + RMW freeze

Preliminary testing and stabilization of ROS Base [1] packages, and API and feature freeze for RMW provider packages.

Mon. April 14, 2024 - Freeze

API and feature freeze for ROS Base [1] packages in Rolling Ridley. Only bug fix releases should be made after this point. New packages can be released independently.

Mon. April 21, 2024 - Branch

Branch from Rolling Ridley. rosdistro is reopened for Rolling PRs for ROS Base [1] packages. Kilted development shifts from ros-rolling-* packages to ros-kilted-* packages.

Mon. April 28, 2024 - Beta

Updated releases of ROS Desktop [2] packages available. Call for general testing.

Thu, May 1, 2024 - Kick off of Tutorial Party

Tutorials hosted at https://github.com/osrf/ros2_test_cases are open for community testing.

Mon. May 12, 2024 - Release Candidate

Release Candidate packages are built. Updated releases of ROS Desktop [2] packages available.

Mon. May 19, 2024 - Distro Freeze

Freeze all Kilted branches on all ROS 2 desktop packages and rosdistro. No pull requests for any kilted branch or targeting kilted/distribution.yaml in rosdistro repo will be merged.

Fri. May 23, 2024 - General Availability

Release announcement. ROS 2 desktop packages source freeze is lifted and rosdistro is reopened for Kilted pull requests.