The Microsoft Azure Edge Robotics team is happy to announce the Foxy Release v20201211.0.0.2012290002 for Windows developers.
As usual, you can install it by the following steps:
mkdir c:\opt\chocolatey
set ChocolateyInstall=c:\opt\chocolatey
choco source add -n=ros-win -s="https://aka.ms/ros/public" --priority=1
choco upgrade ros-foxy-desktop -y --execution-timeout=0
Some highlights of this release:
- Based on the Foxy release sync 2020-12-11.
- Enabled composition:
- Libraries and Python runtime:
- Boost 1.73.0
- CMake 3.18.2
- EmPY 3.3.4
- Gazebo 10.2.0
- OGRE 1.12.7
- OpenCV 4.3.0
- OpenSSL 1.1.1g
- PCL 1.9.1
- Poco 1.9.2
- Python 3.8.3 (embeddable distribution)
- Qt 5.15.0
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Also check out https://aka.ms/ros for ROS related components from Microsoft and partners which are supported on Linux and Windows. And more getting started tutorials on https://aka.ms/ros/docs.
Happy coding ROS Developers! 