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Changelog | Migration Guide

Release Highlights

• SDFormat 1.7 frame semantics, see the ROSCon 2019 talk
• Support for BVH skeletal animations

• Slow motion / sped up log playback

• Tracked vehicles with flippers

• Dynamic bias noise for sensors
• STLB mesh support and improved SVG parsing
• Spherical sonar
• Bumped Ignition dependencies to match Ignition Citadel:
• Ignition Cmake 2
• Ignition Common 3
• Ignition Fuel Tools 4
• Ignition Math 6
• Ignition Msgs 5
• Ignition Transport 8
• SDFormat 9

We are proud to announce the release of Gazebo 11. This version of Gazebo has long term support with an end-of-life on January 29, 2025.

We've also released new minor versions for Gazebo 9 and 10:

• Gazebo 9.12.0 changelog
• Gazebo 10.2.0 changelog

The first stable release of Gazebo came out on October 2012. Now, almost 8 years and 10 major releases later, Gazebo 11 marks the end of major releases from the osrf/gazebo codebase. All released versions will be supported until their end of life, receiving backwards-compatible features and bug fixes.

We'd like to thank external developers who have contributed to Gazebo over the past year:

• Silvio Traversaro
• Martin Pecka
• Mingfei Sun
• Sean Yen
• Jennifer Buehler
• Olivier Crave
• Víctor López
• Tan Benjamin
• Wei Xu
• Timo K
• Eric Timmons
• Stephen Just
• Jonathan Noyola
• Thomas Hines
• Terry Welsh
• Carlos Miguel Correia da Costa
• Yedhin Kizhakkethara
• Samuel Lekieffre

Migration to Ignition

Moving forward, the simulation team at Open Robotics will be focusing on the development of the Ignition simulation framework.

Not all features available on Gazebo 11 have been ported to Ignition yet. Likewise, Ignition offers new features which are not available on Gazebo 11. You can see the feature comparison between Ignition Citadel and Gazebo 11 here.

Both Gazebo and Ignition use SDFormat as the world description format. Therefore, worlds and models that work on Gazebo can be easily ported to Ignition.

Ignition Gazebo supports different plugin types from Gazebo-classic. Check out this tutorial for a review of plugin types and an example on how to port a plugin from Gazebo.

Improved migration guides and APIs to help the transition from Gazebo to Ignition will be coming up over the next few months.

  Gazebo Development Team