# ROS Foxy Fitzroy Released

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Tags:** release, foxy\
**Created:** [June 5, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495 "2020-06-05T21:28:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/jacob/32/160_2.png) [@jacob](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/jacob)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495/1 "2020-06-05T21:28:06Z")

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We’re happy to announce the ROS 2 release Foxy Fitzroy!

 ![ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy mascot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/2X/d/d6fd5322bd2ddc06530d8352fcab20f0bca08c06.png)

Foxy Fitzroy is a long-term support (LTS) release, with support for three years. It is also the first ROS 2 release to target Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). For details on supported platforms and dependency versions, see [REP 2000](https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2000.html#foxy-fitzroy-may-2020-may-2023).

To get an idea of what’s in this release, be sure to read the [Foxy release page](https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Releases/Release-Foxy-Fitzroy).

Here are some things that are new in this release:

- Many new beginner tutorials have been created. [Check them out!](https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Tutorials/)
- Performance improvements for rmw\_fastrtps\_cpp and rmw\_cyclonedds\_cpp. For details, refer to this [design document about node to participant mapping](https://github.com/ros2/design/pull/250).
- After going through API reviews, several core packages have been bumped to stable versions, such as [rclcpp](https://github.com/ros2/rclcpp/) and [common\_interfaces](https://github.com/ros2/common_interfaces).
- rosbag2 has support for compressing and splitting bags
- Several new features have been added to the C++ API:
  - A new [static executor](https://github.com/ros2/rclcpp/pull/1034) with several performance improvements
  - [Topic statistics](https://github.com/ros2/ros2/issues/901)
  - A new [WaitSet class](https://github.com/ros2/rclcpp/pull/1047) as an alternative to using executors

Check out our [installation instructions and tutorials](https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/) and give it a try!

We’re excited to hear about the applications that this release will enable! If you have demonstrations using Foxy from your own work that you can share, feel free to post in this thread.

As always, we invite you to give feedback, report bugs, suggest features, and contribute code!

Refer to [this contact page](https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Contact) for the best way to give feedback.

We also invite you to release your ROS 2 packages in Foxy. [Here’s a tutorial](https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Releasing-a-ROS-2-package-with-bloom) to do so. A huge thanks to all those who’ve already participated in our [pre-release testing and packaging effort](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-foxy-fitzroy-call-for-testing-and-package-releases/).

ROS 2 Foxy is also going to be used as the basis for the forthcoming rolling distribution **Rolling Ridley**. For details on this release you can refer to the [rolling distribution plans](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-rolling-distribution-plans/13227) post.

We would also like to announce the name of the next ROS 2 release scheduled for May 2021:

**Galactic Geochelone**

_Your friendly ROS 2 Team_

P.S. There’s still 10 days left on the [T-Shirt campaign](http://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-noetic-and-foxy-tshirts-available/14240) for Foxy and Noetic!

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**Author:** ![tfoote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/tfoote/32/3813_2.png) [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495/2 "2020-06-05T21:30:57Z")

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**Author:** ![Robo\_Sherpa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/robo_sherpa/32/6544_2.png) [@Robo\_Sherpa](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Robo_Sherpa)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495/3 "2020-06-06T19:06:24Z")

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Very proud of your work, Jacob and team!

Keep on doing the great job that you are doing!

It’s very exciting times and looking forward ROS2 going mainstream 🙂

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**Author:** ![marguedas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/marguedas/32/1633_2.png) [@marguedas](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/marguedas)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495/4 "2020-06-06T20:10:07Z")

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The docker images are now available on Docker Hub, more details on [this post](http://discourse.ros.org/t/announcing-ros-foxy-docker-images-availability/14511) 🐋 🦊 🐢

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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Blasdel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/aaron_blasdel/32/4214_2.png) [@Aaron\_Blasdel](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Aaron_Blasdel)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495/5 "2020-06-12T05:49:21Z")

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“Galactic Geochelone“ Distro Naming done RIGHT!

Great job ROS team!

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**Author:** ![kyrofa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kyrofa/32/9577_2.png) [@kyrofa](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/kyrofa)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495/6 "2020-06-12T15:04:50Z")

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Yeah I saw that and muttered “Aaron…” to myself.

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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Blasdel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/aaron_blasdel/32/4214_2.png) [@Aaron\_Blasdel](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Aaron_Blasdel)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495/7 "2020-06-12T15:32:10Z")

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@kyrofa shaking his fist at the sky as all the galactic turtles blast off into the sky! ✊

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**Author:** ![tfoote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/tfoote/32/3813_2.png) [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-foxy-fitzroy-released/14495/8 "2020-06-12T18:33:28Z")

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