ROS2 Kilted Kaiju - is it time to upgrade from Jazzy?

[Sergei Grichine]

Hi All,

It looks like enough time has passed since the official release of Kilted (May 2025), and hopefully it’s stable by now.

Is anyone on this list using it? What’s your experience so far — any issues or tips?

https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Releases/Release-Kilted-Kaiju.html#

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Best Regards,

-- Sergei

[Chris Albertson]

My opinion on this is maybe extreme but not too uncommon: Either use an “LTS” release or just go with “Rolling”


You really don’t want a one-year lifespan release in a working robot and if this is a long-term development project, you're best to keep up to date

But I’m not doing any development with ROS now. and have Jazzy.

[Nola Donato]

I have been using Kilted ever since I started in robotics, shortly after Kilted was released, so I have nothing to compare it to. It seems pretty stable as far as I can tell. None of the problems I have encountered while working on my project have been due to Kilted.

I do have a problem with rviz2 flickering but I dont think it has anything to do with Kilted.

-Nola

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[Pito Salas]

Do you know what Kilted has that is not in Jazzy/Rolling that would make it worth switching?

Best,

Pito

Boston Robot Hackers &&
Comp. Sci Faculty, Brandeis University (Emeritus)

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[Marco Walther]

On 11/5/25 14:35, Pito Salas wrote:
> Do you know what Kilted has that is not in Jazzy/Rolling that would make it worth switching?

I'm with Chris on that;-) Unless I really find something, I need. I'll
stick to the LTS versions. I already mess with enough parts as it is, so
some 'relatively stable' things are good;-)

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> Best,
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> Pito
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> Boston Robot Hackers &&
> Comp. Sci Faculty, Brandeis University (Emeritus)
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>> On Nov 5, 2025, at 4:00 PM, Nola Donato <nolad...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have been using Kilted ever since I started in robotics, shortly after Kilted was released, so I have nothing to compare it to. It seems pretty stable as far as I can tell. None of the problems I have encountered while working on my project have been due to Kilted.
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>> I do have a problem with rviz2 flickering but I dont think it has anything to do with Kilted.

Do you happen to have a Nvidia GPU where you see those flickering
problems? If so, some environment variables might help

export QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=1
export QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=0
export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia

-- Marco

[Sergei Grichine]

I tried Kilted on a spare desktop and Turtle, seems to work fine. 

More info here:

https://github.com/slgrobotics/robots_bringup/blob/main/NotesAndStatus.md#2025-11-09

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