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<p style="margin-top:0; border: 0;">Formerly, the rule was simple: introduce new features in a new distro, so existing users are not impacted.</p>

<p style="margin-top:0; border: 0;">With Indigo LTS, I found myself wanting to support new hardware that was not available when Indigo was initially released. An example is the popular Velodyne VLP-16 LIDAR. </p>

<p style="margin-top:0; border: 0;">Since I believe I can add that model with minimal disruption to existing users, I've decided to make an exception to the old rule, which made more sense when there was a new ROS distro every six months.</p>
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