See also ROS/ChangeList and ROS/ReleaseProcess, and StackVersionPolicy.

1.7.x series

• purge rosdep.yaml of unused entries (move to common_rosdeps if necessary)
• port code to use rospkg instead of roslib (REP 114)
• Deploy windows support
• rewrite rosdep to be standalone

Python 3 Support

Thanks to Michael Karg (TUM), Severin Lemaignan (LAAS), and Lorenz Mösenlechner (TUM), ROS has much better support for Python 3 up through the rospy communication libraries, though there are still some areas of regression [1]. The command-line tools are not yet fully Py3k compatible, and there is currently no continuous integration that tests for Py3k regressions. The primary use of ROS with Python 3 is the MORSE library.

Python 2.x remains the primary target and you can follow REP 3 for updates to target platforms.

[1]: http://answers.ros.org/question/2032/smach-introspection-server-fails-in-electric