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
andarm64
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 fromros-rolling-*
packages toros-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 anykilted
branch or targetingkilted/distribution.yaml
inrosdistro
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.