ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju Released
ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju Released
Open Robotics announces the release of ROS 2 Kilted Kaiju, a new version of the Robot Operating System with support for Zenoh middleware, Python improvements, and enhanced ROSBag features. The release is supported on Ubuntu 24.04 and Windows, with plans for future improvements in the upcoming Lyrical Luth release.
The release highlights key features like Zenoh middleware support, Python improvements, and enhanced ROSBag functionality, emphasizing community involvement and cross-platform compatibility.
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Original source quotation: “Kilted Kaiju is primarily supported on Ubuntu 24.04 (amd64 and arm64 architectures) and Windows (amd64), but also supports, at a lower tier, RHEL 9 (amd64).”
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Original source quotation: “Kilted Kaiju has many new features and improvements. The full details are available in the release notes and changelog .”
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Original source quotation: “Tier 1 RMW Zenoh Support ROS Kilted Kaiju is our first ROS release to support Eclipse Zenoh as a Tier 1 middleware!”
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Original source quotation: “Python Improvements There are two big improvements to our Python client library (rclpy) available in Kilted Kaiju.”
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Original source quotation: “Action Introspection Ever wonder about the status of your action server? Using the new action introspection command you can interrogate your action server from the command line using the new action echo command!”
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Original source quotation: “New ROSBag Features Kilted Kaiju has a laundry list of new ROSBag features that will greatly improve the lives of ROS users.”
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Original source quotation: “A Community Effort ROS is truly a community effort, and this could not have been better exemplified by our public beta testing of Kilted Kaiju over the past few weeks.”
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Source：Open Robotics — Blog · openrobotics.org