Hey all,
ROS 1.1.9 has been released to cturtle. This is a bugfix release with mostly minor changes.
There's one major thing of note here in roscpp which is that you can no longer use ros::Time::now() until one of:
1) The first NodeHandle has been created
2) ros::start() is explicitly called (NodeHandle usually does this for you)
3) ros::Time::init() is called (generally should not be done -- useful for unit tests and non-node executables).
This change fixes race conditions on startup when running with simulated time. Hopefully it doesn't cause too much pain.
The full changelist is here: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/ChangeList/1.1#A1.1.9_.282010-06-15.29
-- your friendly neighborhood ROS development team