🏁 Gazebo Garden officially end-of-life

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Dear Gazebo Community,

Gazebo Garden has reached end-of-life (EOL) as of November, 2024. Garden was the seventh major release of Gazebo and was supported for two years (non-LTS). It was the first release where Ignition was renamed Gazebo. It also introduced various exciting features, including custom shader plugins, Reset API, DEM support, lunar and custom surface coordinates, glTF and GLB mesh support, and an acoustic communication plugin, just to name a few. See the entire list of features on the Release Features page.

We recommend all Garden users migrate to a supported release as soon as possible, such as Harmonic (LTS) or Ionic, which are paired with ROS Jazzy and Rolling (Kilted once released) respectively. Migrating to either Harmonic or Ionic should be fairly smooth, however, be sure to check the release highlights for Harmonic and Ionic in addition to checking each Gazebo library’s migration guide.

As part of the Garden EOL, the following Gazebo libraries have also reached end-of-life. Their latest released binaries will remain available at http://packages.osrfoundation.org/, but no more fixes or releases will be made.

Library major version Final release
gz-fuel-tools8 8.2.0
gz-sim7 7.9.0
gz-gui7 7.2.2
gz-launch6 6.2.0
gz-msgs9 9.5.1
gz-physics6 6.7.0
gz-rendering7 7.5.0
gz-sensors7 7.3.1
gz-transport12 12.2.2
sdformat13 13.9.0

We sincerely thank all contributors to all libraries in Garden :pray:

What does End of Life Mean?

Users often ask us, “what does end of life mean?” To put it briefly, end of life means that the Gazebo team will no longer support that particular Gazebo release. In practical terms, this means that we will no longer be providing the following for Gazebo Garden:

  • New features or capabilities
  • Security updates
  • Bug fixes, patches or support
  • Updated binaries

It is also worth noting the things that won’t change after Gazebo Garden goes end of life:

  • Gazebo Garden binaries will not suddenly disappear
  • Users will not need to migrate immediately, but they should migrate as soon as possible

:gazebo: Gazebo Dev Team :gazebo:

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