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ROS 2 Iron Irwini (codename ‘iron’; May, 2023)
Table of Contents
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.
New features in this ROS 2 release
To come.
Changes since the Humble release
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 fromros-rolling-*
packages toros-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).