ROS Lyrical Luth gets 93 new packages and 70 updates in patch release
ROS Lyrical Luth patch adds 93 packages covering drones, autonomous driving, and SLAM.
Deep Dive
ROS Lyrical Luth patch release (2026-06-23) adds 93 new packages and updates 70 existing packages. New packages include Crazyflie drone support, Dataspeed CAN tools, MRPT SLAM libraries, RMF fleet management components, and ros2-medkit diagnostic tools. The update also refreshes 70 packages such as camera-calibration-parsers and ament-black. Pull the latest via rosdistro tag lyrical/2026-06-23.
Key Points
- 93 new packages added to ROS Lyrical Luth, covering drones (Crazyflie), autonomous driving (Dataspeed), SLAM (MRPT), fleet management (RMF), and diagnostics (ros2-medkit).
- 70 existing packages updated, including camera-calibration-parsers (v6.4.10), ament-black, and automátika-ros-sugar.
- Patch tagged as lyrical/2026-06-23; full archives available on GitHub at ros2/ros2 release-lyrical-20260522.
Why It Matters
ROS Lyrical expands its ecosystem with new robotics packages, enabling developers to build more capable drones, autonomous vehicles, and multi-robot systems.