Thursday 1.0 Releases: navigation, slam_gmapping, simulator_gazebo

Today we released three more stacks with 1.0 status:

• navigation
• slam_gmapping
• simulator_gazebo

This set of releases, combined with our previous release, provides the complete ROS navigation stack, including SLAM, with stable APIs and support. The navigation stack is in use on a wide variety of robots, and we're excited that this fundamental and robust capability has reached this milestone.

Additionally, the release of simulator_gazebo, which wraps the open-source Gazebo simulator, lays the groundwork for our upcoming release of the pr2_simulator stack.

Several stacks were released today to test functionality prior to 1.0 release. Many of our driver stacks are nearing 1.0 release, with both joystick_drivers and imu_drivers already in 1.0 release candidate status.

• joystick_drivers 0.5.0
• pr2_mechanism 0.5.4
• camera_drivers 0.3.2
• imu_drivers 0.4.0
• laser_drivers 0.4.0
• driver_common 0.2.3

Change lists:

• navigation
• slam_gmapping
• simulator_gazebo
• pr2_mechanism
• joystick_drivers
• camera_drivers
• imu_drivers
• laser_drivers

• driver_common

  -- your friendly neighborhood ROS packagers