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ROS 2 Iron Irwini (codename ‘iron’; May, 2023)

Iron Irwini is the ninth release of ROS 2. What follows is highlights of the important changes and features in Iron Irwini since the last release.

Supported Platforms

Iron Irwini is primarily supported on the following platforms:

Tier 1 platforms:

TBD

Tier 2 platforms:

TBD

Tier 3 platforms:

TBD

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

Installation

To come.

Known Issues

To come.

Release Timeline

November, 2022 - Platform decisions

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

By January, 2023 - Rolling platform shift

Build farm is updated with the new platform versions and dependency versions for Iron Irwini (if necessary).

Mon. April 10, 2023 - Alpha + RMW freeze

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

Mon. April 17, 2023 - 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 24, 2023 - Branch

Branch from Rolling Ridley. rosdistro is reopened for Rolling PRs for ROS Base 1 packages. Iron development shifts from ros-rolling-* packages to ros-iron-* packages.

Mon. May 1, 2023 - Beta

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

Mon. May 15, 2023 - Release Candidate

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

Thu. May 18, 2023 - Distro Freeze

Freeze rosdistro. No PRs for Iron on the rosdistro repo will be merged (reopens after the release announcement).

Tue. May 23, 2023 - General Availability

Release announcement. rosdistro is reopened for Iron PRs.

1(1,2,3)

The ros_base variant is described in REP 2001 (ros-base).

2(1,2)

The desktop variant is described in REP 2001 (desktop-variants).