ROS 1.0

ROS 1.0 has been released!

Development on ROS began a little over two years ago. There have been many changes since those early days, and what started as a little project with a couple of developers has blossomed into a vibrant community supporting a wide variety of robots, big and small, in academia and industry.

We hope that this 1.0 release will help the community even more and that you all will continue to participate and contribute.

ROS, by itself, isn't enough to get a robot going, so we're excited to also release many other libraries as 1.0, including:

• Core libraries and tools: common 1.0, common_msgs, diagnostics 1.0, geometry 1.0, robot_model 1.0, visualization 1.0, visualization_common 1.0 
• Drivers: driver_common 1.0, imu_drivers 1.0, joystick_drivers 1.0, laser_drivers 1.0, sound_drivers 1.0 
• Navigation: navigation 1.0, slam_gmapping 1.0 
• Simulation: physics_ode 1.0, simulator_stage 1.0, simulator_gazebo 1.0, pr2_simulator 1.0 
• Perception: image_common 1.0, image_pipeline 1.0, laser_pipeline 1.0, vision_opencv 1.0 
• PR2: pr2_common 1.0, pr2_controllers 1.0, pr2_gui 1.0, pr2_mechanism 1.0, pr2_power_drivers 1.0, pr2_ethercat_drivers 1.0

For a list of changes in this release, please see the change list.