Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2016-09-21

Packaging and Release Management Kinetic
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We have a lot of packages prepared to sync for Kinetic.

Currently there are 317 packages staged for sync: http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_kinetic_default.html?q=SYNC

There is one regression ticketed here: https://github.com/ros/robot_model/issues/149

This includes the release of many core ROS packages that would be great to be tested. If you have time to update and test from shadow-fixed that would be appreciated.

I would like to suggest we set a goal of syncing next week.

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The following highlights some of the changes which either have a high impact or should be tested by more users in more scenarios:

  • The new genmsg version addresses an annoying CMake warning in all message packages.
  • The new genpy version is updating the generated Python code of ROS messages, especially fix issues for messages with large static arrays.
  • The new roscpp version addresses problems with the destruction order of static instances as well as extends the multi-threaded spinning capabilities.

For further changes please take a look a the various changelogs.

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I looked too quickly at the regressions. There’s also an issue with srdfdom: https://github.com/ros-planning/srdfdom/issues/23 on Wily and Jessie.

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It would be nice if this issue was fixed in this sync.

Not having the nav stack on Kinetic/armhf is a little annoying.

http://jenkins.ros.org/job/Kbin_uxhf_uXhf__navigation__ubuntu_xenial_armhf__binary/

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Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to the fixes.

libpcl-dev is now available on xenial armhf https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/11583

And the srdfdom regression has been resolved. https://github.com/ros-planning/srdfdom/issues/23

The only outstanding issue is the collada_dom issue in robot_model: https://github.com/ros/robot_model/issues/149

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Thanks for pushing on the libpcl bug, it was a bit of an ugly blocker when trying to upgrade my RPi robots to kinetic.

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A large rebuild has just landed in shadow-fixed. There are 349 packages staged to be updated. if you’re testing please update. There’s a patch which has just been released to fix the robot_model issue.

Once that’s rebuild we will have one more opportunity for final testing but any testing before then is also appreciated.

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Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this sync. We needed several rereleases but we successfully go it out without any regressions! The announcement.