ROS 1.0.2 has been released! This is a patch update for users of Box Turtle. We recommend that all Box Turtle users upgrade to this new version. Our debian packages are currently building and should be ready soon. rosinstall and SVN users can update now.

We appreciate all the ROS users who have contributed bug reports and patches that have made this release possible. The list of changes is below.

-- your friendly neighborhood ROS team

ROS installation instruction: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation
Change list: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/ChangeList/1.0#A1.0.2_.282010-04-13.29

1.0.2 (2010-04-13)

rospack: disabled missing package warnings in certain modes (#2197, r8542).
rospy:
- bug fix to on_shutdown() (#2536 r8746)
- bug fix for dynamically generated messages: Message initialization now only checks md5sum match instead of instance match #2584.
- changed message generator for _check_types() to use self instead of static accessor to work in dyngen case #2074
- minor documentation fix (r8961)
Master: bug fix to overly verbose logging (r8779)
rxgraph: patch to make quiet -q even more quiet (r8783)
rosbuild: added -pthread to link line, to keep goLD happy (r8801)
roswtf:
- fixed warning message about /time with /use_sim_time and also fixed warning about /rosout node missing /rosout subscription (r8813)
- fixed common spurious warning message with loopback IP addresses (e.g. 127.0.1.1) #2603
rosparam:
- fixed bug with negative nine as an argument to set (#2605)
- fixed pretty-printing bug with newer versions of python-yaml (r8847)
roscpp
- fixed ros::topic::waitForMessage with timeout to not always return immediately (r8916)
- Timers no longer spam the log file if they are not hitting their deadlines (#2585, r8993)
roslaunch: bug fix for #2468, error on overlapping clear params.
rospack : fixed #2556, segfault when calling depends-on in certain situations.