Hi Gazebo Community!
This week’s meeting was held on 2025-11-24T19:00:00Z and the following is a summary:
- PMC Business:
- Meeting Time Change: The PMC voted to change the regular meeting time to 19:00 UTC to adjust for the recent daylight savings time.
- Meeting Structure: The structure was changed to ensure more time for discussion by moving agenda items before general/progress updates. Updates will now mostly be in written form, but anyone who wants to expound on an update can can do so after dicussion on agenda items has taken place.
- Progress updates:
- Buildfarm Status: Ongoing work to resolve several issues, including Ogre
gl3plustests failing on Windows and problems withLogCommandAPIandDemTest.NaNNoDatatests. - sdf_web_app: Migration to nanoc is ready for approval, and there’s a plan to move the code into
sdf_tutorialsto keep it with the content. - ros_gz: Backport of ROS standard simulation interfaces has been completed.
- Gazebo Server-Only Install: Work is progressing, including changes to how
.sofiles are handled ingz-physicspackages. - Build Fixes: Several PRs were made to fix RHEL Ogre-Next builds for the ROS vendor package.
- Dart Update: Dart 6.16.x packages are in the prerelease repository, and tests with
gz-physics9are passing. - Mujoco Integration: An early prototype for Mujoco integration into
gz-physicswas created during a hackathon to test feasibility. It currently supports simple shapes/meshes, but performance with meshes needs investigation. Plans include adding joint and nested model support (gazebosim/gz-physics#811). - System Plugin Isolation: A prototype for System plugin isolation was created, including a LockStep plugin and runtime plugin, which showed good performance in an example run.
- Buildfarm Status: Ongoing work to resolve several issues, including Ogre
- New agenda items:
- Speeding Up Physics: A discussion was held about integrating a custom physics engine for faster simulation, specifically for cases needing high precision for a small number of objects, less concern about collisions initially, and the ability to switch/reset physics engines during simulation. The concept of lockstep simulation without relying on the current
WorldControlmessage was also brought up.
- Speeding Up Physics: A discussion was held about integrating a custom physics engine for faster simulation, specifically for cases needing high precision for a small number of objects, less concern about collisions initially, and the ability to switch/reset physics engines during simulation. The concept of lockstep simulation without relying on the current
As always, the meeting notes are available at 
New Gazebo weekly agenda - Google Docs.
The next Gazebo PMC meeting will be on 2025-12-01T19:00:00Z (See Open Source Robotics Foundation official events)