common-1.1.0  has been released into latest.  This is a development release it is recommended for users to keep using the 1.0 branch in boxturtle.  If you are wondering see <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/StackVersionPolicy">http://www.ros.org/wiki/StackVersionPolicy</a><br>

<br>The primary part of this release is the addition of the <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/nodelet">nodelet</a> package.  There was discussion on the mailing list earlier about how this can be used as an optimization.  If you are interested please take a look at the documentation or code.  Feedback is always appreciated.  <br clear="all">

<br>Tully<br><br>For the full changelist see <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/common/ChangeList">http://www.ros.org/wiki/common/ChangeList</a><br><ul><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/pluginlib">pluginlib</a> now uses recommended syntax package/name to get rid of global namespace. <span class="anchor" id="line-4"></span></p>

<ul><li>new macro PLUGINLIB_DECLARE_CLASS(package, name, class, base_class) <span class="anchor" id="line-5"></span></li><li>deprecated macro PLUGINLIB_REGISTER_CLASS(name, class, base_class) <span class="anchor" id="line-6"></span></li>

</ul></li><li><p class="line862">New Package: <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/nodelet">nodelet</a> API reviewed provides dynamic loading of multiple nodelets within the same process for high efficiency message passing.  <span class="anchor" id="line-7"></span></p>

<ul><li>there
are a number of helper packages which are more experimental and
unreviewed such as nodelet_tutorial_math and nodelet_topic_tools </li></ul></li></ul><br>-- <br>Tully Foote<br>Systems Engineer<br>Willow Garage, Inc.<br><a href="mailto:tfoote@willowgarage.com">tfoote@willowgarage.com</a><br>

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