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"ROS ESM"

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
16 April 2025

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS End Of Standard Support – activate ESM to keep your fleet of devices secure and operational

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Focal Fossa will reach the End of Standard Support in May 2025. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has become a critical component for millions of IoT and embedded devices worldwide, including kiosks, digital signage solutions, industrial appliances, and robotic systems. The release has been foundational for companies innovating in various industries, from ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
26 April 2024

ESM for ROS: 10 things you need to know

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

This article provides a concise, 10-point guide designed to help you determine if ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance) is the right choice for your robotics project.  With the End of Life of ROS Noetic, we have received many questions from people in the robotics community who are interested in learning about Expanded Security Maintenance f ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
27 January 2023

ROS 2 Foxy and ROS Melodic EOL – Keep your robots up and running

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

ROS Melodic EOL is around the corner. With more than 1,004 repositories in rosdistro, Melodic is among the top 3 ROS distributions (with Indigo and Kinetic). Together with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Melodic was widely used by many pioneering companies who deployed the first ROS devices to market. By the end of April, both distributions will ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
5 October 2021

ROS CVE alert; ensuring security for robotics

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Security for robotics is a priority for ROS developers and crucial for the success of robotics. Open Robotics has registered a CVE that affects ROS Kinetic, Melodic and Noetic. CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, and it’s an international system that provides a method for publicly sharing information on cybersecurity vuln ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 June 2021

ROS Kinetic migration and its challenges – A community perspective.

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

ROS Kinetic has come to EOL. We have discussed the impact of EOL in the past, but with its final sync out on May 12th, ROS Kinetic is no longer supported. Together with Ubuntu Xenial, both distributions will no longer receive security updates or bug fixes.  ROS second LTS release became the largest rosdistro with ...

Canonical
6 April 2021

Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical ROS ESM customers now can access a long-term supported ROS and Ubuntu environment by the Ubuntu and ROS experts. Learn more about ROS ESM. 6 April 2021: Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part of Ubuntu Advantag ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2021

What is Expanded Security Maintenance for ROS?

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Developing robots is not like building apps or IoT devices. Robots balance complex features such as scene awareness, social intelligence, physical intelligence, communication, dialogue, learning from interaction, memory, long-term autonomy, safe failure… the list goes on and on.  As a result, robotics startups can take years to get to a m ...