[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [General] New packages for Ardent 2018-02-09

[Steven! Ragnarök]

Happy Friday. The ROS 2 team is pleased to present the first update to ROS 2 Ardent Apalone.

Highlights in this release:

* `rviz2` for Windows
* Release of the `ros_environment` package which provides the environment variables specified in [REP149](http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0149.html)
* Bug fixes in the included version of Fast-RTPS
* Fix for include path order in `rosidl` [ros2/rosidl#261](https://github.com/ros2/rosidl/pull/261)


To celebrate, we present the official release illustration for ROS 2 Ardent Apalone

![Ardent Apalone](/uploads/ros/original/2X/2/2ad7fe77cdf77761f8f286aacdace1cf008f3093.png)



Which you can get printed on a shirt or jacket during [our t-shirt campaign](https://teespring.com/ros-ardent) (use [this link](https://teespring.com/ros-ardent-eu) for the EU distribution center). The campaign will end March 2nd.

As always, we invite you to try out the new software, give feedback, report bugs, and suggest features (and contribute code!): https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Contact 

So pull down [an archive release](https://github.com/ros2/ros2/releases/tag/release-ardent-20180209), grab the [packages from the Ubuntu repos](https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Linux-Install-Debians), or [build it from source](https://github.com/ros2/ros2/wiki/Installation#building-from-source) and let us know what you think.

*Your friendly neighborhood ROS 2 Team*

## Package Updates for ardent

### Added Packages [1]:

 * `ros-ardent-ros-environment`: 2.0.0-0

### Updated Packages [22]:

 * `ros-ardent-amcl`: 3.0.0-0 -> 3.0.0-1
 * `ros-ardent-fastrtps`: 1.5.0-10 -> 1.5.0-12
 * `ros-ardent-libcurl-vendor`: 2.0.0-0 -> 2.0.2-2
 * `ros-ardent-map-server`: 3.0.0-0 -> 3.0.0-1
 * `ros-ardent-pluginlib`: 2.0.0-0 -> 3.0.0-0
 * `ros-ardent-python-cmake-module`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-resource-retriever`: 2.0.0-0 -> 2.0.2-2
 * `ros-ardent-rosidl-cmake`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-rosidl-generator-c`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-rosidl-generator-cpp`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-rosidl-generator-py`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-rosidl-parser`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-rosidl-typesupport-interface`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-rosidl-typesupport-introspection-c`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-rosidl-typesupport-introspection-cpp`: 0.4.0-0 -> 0.4.1-0
 * `ros-ardent-rviz-assimp-vendor`: 2.0.0-5 -> 3.0.0-1
 * `ros-ardent-rviz-common`: 2.0.0-5 -> 3.0.0-1
 * `ros-ardent-rviz-default-plugins`: 2.0.0-5 -> 3.0.0-1
 * `ros-ardent-rviz-ogre-vendor`: 2.0.0-5 -> 3.0.0-1
 * `ros-ardent-rviz-rendering`: 2.0.0-5 -> 3.0.0-1
 * `ros-ardent-rviz-yaml-cpp-vendor`: 2.0.0-5 -> 3.0.0-1
 * `ros-ardent-rviz2`: 2.0.0-5 -> 3.0.0-1

### Removed Packages [1]:

- `ros-ardent-rviz-rendering-tests`





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