# Kinetic **URL:** https://discourse.openrobotics.org/c/archive/kinetic/17.md [Latest](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/tags.md) --- ## [About the Kinetic category](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/about-the-kinetic-category/318)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/about-the-kinetic-category/318 "2016-07-08T19:11:00Z")
This is a category for maintainers to discus Kinetic specific release issues. All maintainers making releases into Kinetic are requested to monitor this category. If you’d like a package to be released into Kinetic thi… --- ## [Preparing for final Kinetic Sync](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-final-kinetic-sync/19805)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-final-kinetic-sync/19805 "2021-05-12T18:06:24Z")
Hi Kinetic Maintainers, It’s hard to believe that we’re approaching the end of a full 5 year release cycle. But we are fast approaching the EOL of Kinetic. To that end we have only one planned sync left. If you want to… --- ## [Preparing for penultimate Kinetic Sync 2021-04-01](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-penultimate-kinetic-sync-2021-04-01/19753)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-penultimate-kinetic-sync-2021-04-01/19753 "2021-04-06T20:14:23Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We’re approaching the end of the line. This week we are preparing for the penultimate kinetic sync. Which means that it’s the last one into which I recommend making a release. There’s currently 15 … --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2021-03-19](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-03-19/19559)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-03-19/19559 "2021-03-23T01:57:46Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 33 packages for sync in kinetic. And there are no regressions. As such I plan to hold new releases until Monday Mar 22, 2021 (UTC) and do the sync then. If there are any regressions detecte… --- ## [When will the last Kinetic Sync be?](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/when-will-the-last-kinetic-sync-be/19596)
**Author:** [@Felix\_Messmer](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Felix_Messmer)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/when-will-the-last-kinetic-sync-be/19596 "2021-03-22T23:34:39Z")
when will be the last sync before kinetic goes EOL? --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2021-03-05](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-03-05/19302)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-03-05/19302 "2021-03-09T01:14:46Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 17 packages ready for sync and no regressions. To that end I plan to hold new releases over the weekend and sync on Monday 3/8/2021 (UTC) Until then we will hold new releases unless they’r… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2021-02-19](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-02-19/19049)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-02-19/19049 "2021-02-25T03:05:27Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 45 packages ready to sync and no regressions in the current state. So I plan to hold new releases and run a sync on Tuesday Feb 23, 2021 (UTC). Until then I plan to hold new releases. If th… --- ## [Call for Testing: Update to Xenial Packages for PySide2 and Shiboken2](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/call-for-testing-update-to-xenial-packages-for-pyside2-and-shiboken2/18999)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2021, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/call-for-testing-update-to-xenial-packages-for-pyside2-and-shiboken2/18999 "2021-02-19T00:05:47Z")
As part of a background effort we have been working to increase the reproducibility of ROS packaging. Part of that extends to the bootstrap repository. We have identified that we imported PySide2 for Xenial from a commun… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2021-02-05](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-02-05/18840)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-02-05/18840 "2021-02-11T22:31:36Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 61 packages ready to sync for Kinetic. I’ve identified one regression on Kinetic causing 7 failed builds on amd64 and i386. ueye\_cam has previously regressed and remains unable to build. … --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2021-01-22](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-01-22/18610)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-01-22/18610 "2021-01-26T01:18:55Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We’re getting ready for another sync. We have 18 packages ready to sync and no regressions. As such I plan to hold new releases until Monday January 25, 2021 (UTC) If there’s any issues with that p… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2021-01-08](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-01-08/18347)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2021, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2021-01-08/18347 "2021-01-13T00:48:46Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 47 packages ready to sync and no known regressions. I plan to hold new releases until 2021-01-11T08:00:00Z (UTC). If there’s any issues to be raised please reply here. --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-12-17](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-12-17/18074)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-12-17/18074 "2020-12-21T19:55:52Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 49 packages to sync and no regressions. As such I plan to hold new releases until Monday and make the sync then. If there’s any issues with that please reply here. --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-12-03](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-12-03/17739)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-12-03/17739 "2020-12-07T19:44:28Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We are beginning to prepare for a sync. There’s two know regressions that we’re working to resolve this week. Move Base Flex – costmap issue https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/27558 VTK linkin… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-11-20](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-11-20/17476)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-11-20/17476 "2020-11-24T20:34:18Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We’re slightly overdue for a Kinetic sync. The buildfarm is still catching up from a few releases and we’re being hit by the recently implemented dockerhub rate limits. Over the weekend and into nex… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-10-27](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-10-27/16997)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-10-27/16997 "2020-10-29T19:32:56Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, Now that the buildfarm has caught up we’re close to ready to do another sync. We have 131 packages ready to sync There are a few packages on armhf and arm64 targets still rebuilding in Kinetic. But… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-10-08](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-10-08/16738)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-10-08/16738 "2020-10-13T17:54:56Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 58 packages ready to sync There are 7 regressions that I hope will be resolved by the recent release that is rebuilding right now. https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/26881 I plan to ho… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-09-24](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-09-24/16543)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-09-24/16543 "2020-09-30T09:54:21Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 34 packages ready to sync and no regressions. As such I plan to hold new releases into Kinetic and make a sync on Monday 2020-09-28T07:00:00Z (UTC) If there’s any issues that should be tria… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-09-10](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-09-10/16349)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-09-10/16349 "2020-09-15T08:41:47Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We’re due for a Kinetic sync. We have 23 packages staged, no known regressions and the audit for builds is coming back clean. There are a few rebuilds in progress, but when they finish later today I… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-08-20](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-08-20/16002)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-08-20/16002 "2020-09-01T08:05:21Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We’re due for another Kinetic sync I’ve identifed one regression of pyros\_iterfaces\_ros We are also working towards having a stricter policy for failing builds in the rosdistro. And to that end the… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-08-04](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-08-04/15755)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-08-04/15755 "2020-08-07T00:13:26Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We’re due for a sync. We have 4 updated packages ready for sync as well as a few packages that have been fixed on armhf and armv8 I plan to hold new releases until Thursday and sync then. If there’… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-07-21](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-07-21/15517)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-07-21/15517 "2020-07-23T18:39:56Z")
We have 59 new and updated packages and no regressions. I plan to hold new releases for Kinetic until Thursday and make the sync then. If there’s anything that would be a concern with this plan please reply here. --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-07-05](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-07-05/15250)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-07-05/15250 "2020-07-08T00:11:54Z")
We’re in good shape for another Kinetic sync with 39 packages ready to sync and no regressions. The rebuild is in process for 3 recently released packages. As such I plan to hold new Kinetic releases for testing before … --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-06-25](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-06-25/15074)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-06-25/15074 "2020-06-29T17:45:36Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 53 packages ready to sync and no regressions. Since we’re in good shape I plan to hold new releases until the weekend. If there’s anything that should be considered please reply here. --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-06-10](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-06-10/14614)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-06-10/14614 "2020-06-12T21:33:23Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We’re due for another Kinetic sync. We have 39 packages ready for sync. And I’ve identified one regression of a metapackage due to including a new package that’s failing to build. It’s ticketed here… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-05-27](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-05-27/14329)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-05-27/14329 "2020-05-28T20:25:32Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 85 packages ready to sync and no regressions. I plan to hold new releases starting now until the end of the week, 2020-05-29T07:00:00Z (UTC) and make the sync then. If there’s anything tha… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-05-13](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-05-13/14091)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-05-13/14091 "2020-05-18T18:40:52Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have just over 40 new packages ready for Kinetic and we’re due for a sync. I’ve identified one regression for mavros\_extras @vooon If you could take a look this week that would be great. Beside… --- ## [Baxter release permissions](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/baxter-release-permissions/8705)
**Author:** [@k-okada](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/k-okada)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/baxter-release-permissions/8705 "2020-05-08T23:15:48Z")
Can someone give me permission to baxter GitHub repository for releasing into the kinetic? Or since RethinkRobotics is no longer exists, can we copy to some other places? Is this the special case of Releasing repositori… --- ## [Releasing GStreamer](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/releasing-gstreamer/13957)
**Author:** [@pbomel](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/pbomel)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/releasing-gstreamer/13957 "2020-05-06T22:32:26Z")
Dear ROS maintainers, I’ve used and adapted Mike ferguson’s package for my “kinetic+GStreamer1.0+python2.7+GTK3.0” mix in order to soon drive by voice a Turtlebot3. I’m rather new to ROS and never added a package, so m… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-04-29](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-04-29/13864)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-04-29/13864 "2020-05-02T20:08:53Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have about 45 new or updated packages and no regressions. I did just merge a few releases that are rebuilding and will track to make sure that they rebuild successfully. Please reply here if the… --- ## [Preparing for Kinetic Sync 2020-04-15](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-04-15/13678)
**Author:** [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/preparing-for-kinetic-sync-2020-04-15/13678 "2020-04-17T22:10:48Z")
Kinetic Maintainers, We have 66 packages ready to sync However I’ve flagged one regression specific to 32bit platforms builds of sesame\_ros and is correlated with the catkin\_virtualenv release. I’ve ticketed it here: s… [Next page](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/c/archive/kinetic/17.md?page=1)