ROS 2 Iron Irwini Released!
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ROS 2 Iron Irwini Released!

Crikey, it’s that time of year already! May 23rd, World Turtle Day and ROS release day. Today we are happy to announce the ninth release of ROS 2, Iron Irwini! Iron is a short term release that will be supported until the end of November 2024. In accordance with REP-2000, ROS Iron supports three Tier 1 operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish (both arm64 and amd64 architectures) and Windows 10. If you want to try it out, our installation instructions and tutorials are now up and ready to go on docs.ros.org.

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Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical
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Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part of Ubuntu Advantage, Canonical’s service package for Ubuntu. ROS support will be made available as an option to Ubuntu Advantage support customers. As a result, users already taking advantage of critical security updates and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) fixes now have a single point of contact to guarantee timely and high quality fixes for ROS.

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