ROS Melodic Morenia Release

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Greetings ROS users,

Happy World Turtle Day! :turtle: [1]

I am pleased to announce that the 12th ROS distribution, Melodic Morenia [2], is now available on Ubuntu Bionic 18.04, Ubuntu Artful 17.10, and Debian Stretch.
32-bit ARM (armhf) packages are available on Bionic, and 64-bit ARM (aarch64) packages are available for Ubuntu Bionic and Debian Stretch.

To install ROS Melodic, refer to the Installation page on the Wiki:

http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation

There are a couple of Release notes to be aware of while installing Melodic:

  • If you installed Melodic from binaries during the beta, youā€™ll have to remove all of your packages and reinstall them.
  • There are currently no debug packages (containing the debug symbols) available for Ubuntu Bionic or Artful packages. This will be remedied a short time after the release, see https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/reprepro-updater/pull/60 for details and the fix.

Check out the Migration guide for a changelog of new features and API changes:

http://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Migration

465 packages in the ROS ecosystem are in the initial release of Melodic, compared to 2020 currently in Kinetic. You can see the released packages on the status page for Melodic:

http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_melodic_default.html

And you can compare the versions of packages in Melodic and other active ROS distributions here:

http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/compare_kinetic_melodic.html

http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/compare_indigo_kinetic_lunar_melodic.html

If thereā€™s a package missing in Melodic that youā€™d like to see released, please:

  • check if the package can be released here:

http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/blocked_releases_melodic.html

Even though weā€™ve made the initial Melodic release, itā€™s never too late to add packages to Melodic (or Lunar, Kinetic, or Indigo) for upcoming syncs.

Melodic T-shirts (and hoodies) should come through in the mail this week.

Weā€™d also like to announce the name of the next ROS distribution:

Noetic Ninjemys

Thank you to all of the maintainers and contributors who helped make this release possible.
We couldnā€™t do this without you.

Chris and the ROS Team

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle_Day
[2] http://wiki.ros.org/melodic

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ROS Melodic docker images are now available on Dockerhub! :whale2:

Simply run this command to download and start a session in a Melodic container:

$> docker run -it ros:melodic

ROS Melodic images are available for the following platforms/architectures:

  • Ubuntu Bionic:
    • amd64
    • armhf (arm32v7)
    • arm64v8
  • Debian Stretch:
    • amd64
    • arm64v8

The desktop and desktop_full images are available on the osrf/ros docker hub profile

To try them out:
$> docker run -it osrf/ros:melodic-desktop-full

Notes:

  • The implicit latest tag now points to melodic-ros-base
  • Please report any issue with the images on github.com/osrf/docker_images/issues
  • Donā€™t forget to star our official repo so others might discover it!
  • You can find the list of tags here

Happy containing!

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hey sir
i want to install ROS melodic for turtlebot 3 machine learning is it working now or notā€¦ can you plz tell me.

                               thankyou
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Go for ROS Noetic . It can work on ubuntu 20.04

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My advice is to go for ros noetic , not yet E.O.L and can be installed on Ubuntu 20.04.

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hii sir.

is ROS noetic sutable for reincorcement learning for turtlebot3 ?

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hii sir ā€¦am working on reincorcement learning for turtlebot3 simulation by using ros and gazeboā€¦is this workout on ros noetic?

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is ros noetic sutable for reincorcement learning for turtlebot3 simulation with gazebo?

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definitely good for Gazebo ROS noeticā°simulation.
Example of ROS SITL QGC on a PX4 SITL

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Hi Prashanth,

I am a moderator for ROS Discourse. Please use ROS Answers or Robotics Stack Exchange for these types of questions. If you are starting a new project we recommend using the latest LTS version of ROS 2. The current ROS 2 LTS is Humble Hawksbill. ROS Melodic is presently an end-of-life ROS Distro.

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