We're happy to announce the
official release of ROS Jade Turtle [1]!
Jade Turtle is the ninth
release of ROS and is primarily targeted at the Ubuntu distributions
Trusty, Utopic, and Vivid. Our current count of packages is 520, you can
compare the packages available in Indigo vs. Jade here:
You can install Jade by following the Jade installation instructions here:
http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation
I'm
also happy to officially announce the name of the next release of ROS
as Kinetic Kame, which we'll refer to as just "kinetic"!
We've also just finished deploying the new prerelease.ros.org website and updated the documentation[3] on the new way to do prereleases for Jade and Indigo:
We're
also aware of, and working on, an issue that affects rosbuild on newer
Ubuntu's. The issue is a blocker, but not on Trusty. We hope to have a
solution in the next few weeks. Please follow this issue if you are
interested:
Finally,
I want to thank all of the people who helped make this release and get
it started strong and on time by the release date (which is also World
Turtle day [2])! Thanks also to Tully who put together a video
representation of the 40 some odd contributors across around 500
packages:
Thanks to everyone, and enjoy ROS Jade!
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