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Every tracked release cycle of ROS has reached end-of-life. The most recent, noetic, reached EOL on May 1, 2025.

Latest version

noetic

—

Actively maintained cycles

0

of 4 tracked

Total cycles tracked

4

since May 23, 2016

Support pattern

How ROS has behaved across the cycles tracked here, rather than what its policy documents state. Useful for judging how much runway a version is likely to have before you commit to it.

Typical support window

59 mo (~5 years)

median of 4 completed cycles

New cycle roughly every

12 months

median gap between releases

Compared with framework

+40 mo

longer than the framework median

Computed from release and end-of-life dates tracked for ROS. Medians are used rather than averages so one unusually short or long release does not skew the figure. Cycles with no recorded end-of-life date are excluded from the support window.

Release lifecycle

Actively maintainedSecurity support onlyEnd of life
Today
noeticLatest
EOL May 1, 2025
melodic
EOL Apr 1, 2023
lunar
EOL May 1, 2019
kinetic
EOL May 1, 2021
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