Foxy Release

[spragunr]

I'm just wondering when there will be an official Foxy release? I see that there is a foxy_devel branch. I just received several TB3 that I will be using for a course in the fall. Working with our sysadmin will be simplified if there are deb packages available. I see #561 is open, but Eloquent is EOL in just a few months.

[ROBOTIS-Will]

Hi,
We're expecting that the Foxy support will be available from August.
As you already know, Eloquent will not be supported while we are focusing on Foxy.

[rafaelhuang-intel]

Hi ,

Does any update of foxy release ?

And I also hope to know what time we can use foxy version on Yocto? Currently, Yocto only found dashing version (.0.2.6) under Yocto Dunfill,

[ruffsl]

Looks like the turtlebot3 packages are still missing from the foxy release, making it tricky to support ROS2 Foxy for the upcoming fall semester:

http://repo.ros2.org/status_page/compare_dashing_foxy.html

Indeed, it would be helpful to have an educational robot platform released into the current ROS2 LTS.

[ROBOTIS-Will]

Hi @rafaelhuang-intel @ruffsl ,
Thank you all for the interest in this issue.
We're currently working/testing on Foxy with Raspberry Pi3B+, but having some issues with Ubuntu crashing(#593).
I'll try to release the Foxy as soon as possible.
We'll review to release on Yocto.

[andrestoga]

@ROBOTIS-Will Did you guys already test it with the kernel fixed in Focal?

[SebO-L]

Hi,
I'm a ROS2 newcomer and I was waiting for the foxy release. I'd like to report a successful installation (burger bot)

• PC and raspberry on focal &ros2 foxy
• Turtlebot packages install with the foxy-devel branch.

So far the navigation is up. I have been able to save the map and navigate (odometry ok)
Thanks for your work

[DLu]

It might be worthwhile to do a release of the parts that are working (i.e. the description) so things like the navigation tutorials can be used in Foxy, even if the real robot cannot.

[DLu]

This is probably closed via ros/rosdistro#26975, right?

[ROBOTIS-Will]

@DLu Yes, TurtleBot3 Foxy package has been released.
We've tested it with the latest Ubuntu 20.04 preinstalled server image for Raspberry Pi 3B+ and preparing to support RPi 4B in the next year.

[rafaelhuang-intel]

I meet a issue of turtlebot3 navigaiton & Rviz (#677 ), does anyone meet same?

[ROBOTIS-Will]

This issue thread will be closed as TurtleBot3 Foxy has been released. Please feel free to reopen if needed.