--- title: ROS Support | Blog description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ros-support?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged *"ROS Support"* --- [Gabriel Aguiar Noury](https://canonical.com/blog/author/g-aguiar-noury) 26 April 2024 ### [ESM for ROS: 10 things you need to know](https://canonical.com/blog/ros-enterprise-support-10-things-you-need-to-know) Robotics Ubuntu tech blog This article provides a concise, 10-point guide designed to help you determine if ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance) is the right choice for your robotics project.  With the End of Life of ROS Noetic, we have received many questions from people in the robotics community who are interested in learning about Expanded Security Maintenance f ... --- [Gabriel Aguiar Noury](https://canonical.com/blog/author/g-aguiar-noury) 3 June 2021 ### [ROS Kinetic migration and its challenges – A community perspective.](https://canonical.com/blog/ros-kinetic-migration-and-its-challenges-a-community-perspective) Robotics Ubuntu tech blog ROS Kinetic has come to EOL. We have discussed the impact of EOL in the past, but with its final sync out on May 12th, ROS Kinetic is no longer supported. Together with Ubuntu Xenial, both distributions will no longer receive security updates or bug fixes.  ROS second LTS release became the largest rosdistro with ... --- [Gabriel Aguiar Noury](https://canonical.com/blog/author/g-aguiar-noury) 6 April 2021 ### [What is Expanded Security Maintenance for ROS?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-ros-esm) Robotics Ubuntu tech blog Developing robots is not like building apps or IoT devices. Robots balance complex features such as scene awareness, social intelligence, physical intelligence, communication, dialogue, learning from interaction, memory, long-term autonomy, safe failure… the list goes on and on.  As a result, robotics startups can take years to get to a m ... ---