# ROS Lunar Loggerhead Beta has begun

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-lunar-loggerhead-beta-has-begun/1790>\
**Category:** ROS General\
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**Created:** [May 3, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-lunar-loggerhead-beta-has-begun/1790 "2017-05-03T14:25:14Z")\
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Dear ROS users,

The beta for Lunar has begun!

Thanks to all of our contributors and maintainers who made this possible.

ros-lunar-desktop-full is available on Ubuntu Zesty (17.04), Yakkety (16.10), Xenial (16.04) and Debian Stretch. So take a moment to be an upstanding member of the ROS community  
and:

- sudo apt-get install ros-lunar-desktop-full
- Try testing out packages you regularly use that are available in the beta.
- Report any bugs you find on the issue tracker for the package (usually  
available on the packge for a package on [wiki.ros.org](http://wiki.ros.org)).
- Try out documentation, tutorials, and generated documentation and fix  
issues on the Wiki.
- If you are a package maintainer, continue releasing packages, fixing  
issues wherever possible, and checking your package documentation. The  
Lunar beta is the best time to change API or change the behavior of your  
code, but don’t forget to update the Migration page if you do:  
[lunar/Migration - ROS Wiki](http://wiki.ros.org/lunar/Migration)  
To know if your package can be released see the [blocked\_releases status page](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/blocked_releases_lunar.html?s=6&r=1)

May 23rd, World Turtle Day, is still our official release date for ROS  
Lunar and we are on track to meeting it! So mark it down into your  
calendar, and if you’re a maintainer, plan to finish your releases before  
then to leave some breathing room.

Known discrepancy amongst platforms:

- octovis is not available on armhf as in previous ROS Distributions  
Everything other package is available on all architectures/platforms targeted by [REP3](http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0003.html#lunar-loggerhead-may-2017-may-2019)!

For a more comprehensive view of the current status of Lunar, including  
packages outside of desktop-full that are available in the beta, see the  
status pages on [repositories.ros.org](http://repositories.ros.org):

> **[ROS packages for Lunar - 2019-07-10 07:22:03 -0800](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_lunar_default.html)**

> **[ROS packages for Lunar - 2019-07-10 07:21:41 -0800](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_lunar_ds.html)**

> **[ROS packages for Lunar - 2019-07-10 07:21:52 -0800](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_lunar_dsv8.html)**

> **[ROS packages for Lunar - 2019-07-10 07:22:13 -0800](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_lunar_uxhf.html)**

> **[ROS packages for Lunar - 2019-07-10 07:22:24 -0800](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_lunar_uxv8.html)**

> **[ROS packages in Kinetic Lunar - 2019-07-10 04:36:02 -0800](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/compare_kinetic_lunar.html)**

Have a great weekend,

Mikael Arguedas  
Lunar ROS Boss