[blog] Kinetic release.

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+author: 130s
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+date: 2016-12-x 00:00:00+00:00
+layout: post
+slug: firstkineticrelease
+title: MoveIt! officially released into ROS Kinetic
+media_type: image
+media_link: http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kinetic.png
+description: We are happy to announce MoveIt! is now released into ROS [Kinetic](http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic) LTS (Long Term Support)!
+categories:
+- MoveIt!
+- ROS
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+
+We are happy to announce MoveIt! is now released into ROS [Kinetic](http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic) LTS (Long Term Support)!
+From now onward, Kinetic is and will be the ROS version that comes with the newest capabilities and bug fixes for MoveIt!.
+
+First thing to note is that from Kinetic C++11 is fully enforced for MoveIt!, which means you HAVE to build all packages that include MoveIt headers with support for C++11.
+
+Some new features and bug-fixes added since the [last release into Jade](http://moveit.ros.org/moveit!/ros/2016/09/02/firstjaderelease.html), :
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+- [Trajectory safety validation before execution](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/pull/63) (Kinetic onward only)
+- New planners in [OMPL](http://ompl.kavrakilab.org/) are now available from MoveIt! (geometric::{FMT, BFMT, PDST, STRIDE, BiTRRT, LBTRRT, BiEST, ProjEST, LazyPRM, LazyPRMstar, SPARS, SPARStwo}) ([see PR for detail](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/pull/338))
+- [MoveGroup's default capabilities are now added by default](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/pull/359).
+- [New benchmarking using PlanningArena](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/pull/228)
+- [Separate Pick request without Grasps from Grasp Planning request](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/pull/328)
+- [Increase collision checking reliability for newly created moveit_config packages](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/pull/337)
+- [IK solvers consolidated into a new moveit_kinematics package](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/pull/247)
+- [Fix unreasonable "Invalid Trajectory: start point deviates" error](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/issues/283)
+- Fedora support is added. Feedback (and fix if necessary) welcomed!
+
+If you're running your robot packages with ROS Kinetic, and/or if you want to try the newest MoveIt!, start at [moveit.ros.org/install](http://moveit.ros.org/install/)
+
+Update on ROS Indigo 
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+Contributors are working hard towards a new binary release into Indigo as well. Future release will primarily target Kinetic, which is the recommended platform if you'd like to utilize the result of newest development. ABI-compatible changes can be released into previous ROS distros too.
+
+--Your friendly MoveIt! maintenance team.