As mentioned previously we’ll be conducting a testing and tutorial party for the next Gazebo release, Ionic. If you missed the kickoff meeting for the tutorial party, here’s the video:
We’ll be partying from August 29th until Friday, September 13th, 2025. As a reminder, to sweeten the pot, we will once again be sending out Ionic t-shirts to the top ten tutorial party animals (those who finish reviewing the most tutorials as measured by closed tickets). Since the t-shirts will be distributed as gift codes to the Gazebo T-Spring store you must fill out this form after you close your first ticket.Participants must register no later than 2024-09-13T07:00:00Z to be eligible for the swag give away.Additionally, every single one of the tutorial participants will be included in the Ionic release notes. Unfortunately, we’re still working on the Gazebo Ionic artwork, so our Gazebo store isn’t quite ready yet, but we should have that up before the end of the Tutorial Party.
Important Dates
2024-08-29 → 2023-09-13 Ionic Tutorial Party
2024-09-16 → 2023-09-20 Internal Q&A
2024-09-25 Community Meeting Demo
2024-09-30 Official Release Announcement
2024-10-07 Tutorial Party top contributors announced
(potentially earlier)
2024-09-30 Official Release Announcement
TBD Graphic Release and T-Shirt Sale – (T-shirt / art will be delayed)
You can find more details about the tutorial party and how to participate in the Gazebo community post.
We’ve been making great progress on the Tutorial party. Thanks everyone for the participation!!
Most of the issues we’ve closed so far have been for the Ubuntu Noble platform, so there are still plenty of macOS and Windows issues left. If you have a setup with either macOS or Windows, we would love for you to participate. Please come join the party
I am sitting in a room with @azeey, @clalancette, and a few others right now. We’re looking at the Test and Tutorial Party results and we need some help.
Here’s the good news:
We are basically done with Ubuntu tickets for Ionic.
We desperately need the community’s help testing on these platforms. If you happen to have a Windows VM, or a Mac sitting around we would really appreciate your help.
We’re all in a room right now firing up VMs to push through some testing and we love some help!
I’ve set up a Windows Server 2022 instance (I know it’s not Windows 10 or 11 but I think it is better than nothing, at least for an experimental support) in the cloud for the Botronics team (3 ROS developers). We will try to close some “windows” issues during our free time !
There is no way to create a MacOS instance in the cloud (at least in GCP) so can’t help on these issues.
Let’s give back to open source what open source gave us
If you participated in the tutorial party and want to be eligible for the T-shirt giveaway, please make sure you fill out this form by 2024-09-12T12:00:00Z.
to the top ten tutorial party animals (those who finish reviewing the most tutorials as measured by closed tickets). Since the t-shirts will be distributed as gift codes to the Gazebo T-Spring store 
you must fill out this form after you close your first ticket.
Participants must register no later than 2024-09-13T07:00:00Z to be eligible for the swag give away. Additionally, every single one of the tutorial participants will be included in the Ionic release notes. Unfortunately, we’re still working on the Gazebo Ionic artwork, so our Gazebo store isn’t quite ready yet, but we should have that up before the end of the Tutorial Party.
Here is the bad news :