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Canonical has now extended its ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance) for ROS coverage to ROS Noetic content-sharing snaps. With ESM for ROS now available in both deb and snap formats, Ubuntu continues to be the trusted foundation for secure, long-term robotics innovation.

As of May 2025, the Robot Operating System (ROS) Noetic Ninjemys officially reached its end of life (EOL). First released in 2020 as the final ROS (1) distribution, ROS Noetic has been the default choice for thousands of developers building on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For developers and businesses running mission-critical systems on ROS Noetic,

It’s a new year, and an especially great time to reflect on the security of your robots. After all, those interested in breaching it are probably doing the same. In previous articles, we discussed ROS security by detailing practical steps for securing your robots on Ubuntu and the challenges the community faces. In this blog

We’re excited about the recent release of ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill, a Long Term Support (LTS) distro, supported for the next five years. ROS 2 releases come out on every even-numbered year together with the LTS release of Ubuntu, this time with Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).  Earlier this week, we shared a step-by-step guide to

Learn more about DDS, and how to stay protected while using it If you are currently running the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2), this piece is especially relevant to the security of your robots. A few weeks ago, a group of security researchers reported 13 security vulnerabilities affecting some of the most used implementations