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Releasing a Package
===================

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   Index-Your-Packages
   First-Time-Release
   Subsequent-Releases
   Release-Team-Repository
   Release-Track

**Releasing a package makes your package available on the public ROS 2 buildfarm.**
This will:

* Make your package available to be installed via package managers (eg. ``apt`` on Ubuntu) for all supported Linux platforms in a ROS distribution as described in `REP 2000 <https://ros.org/reps/rep-2000.html>`_.
* Allow your package to have API documentation automatically generated.
* Make your package part of the `ROS Index <https://index.ros.org>`_.
* (Optionally) Allow you to have automatic CI run for pull requests in your repository.

**Follow one of the guides below to get your package released:**

* :doc:`Index Your Packages <Index-Your-Packages>` - if this is the first release for the package
* :doc:`First Time Release <First-Time-Release>` - if this is the first release for the package, but it is already indexed
* :doc:`Subsequent Releases <Subsequent-Releases>` - if you are releasing a new version of a package that has already been released

After successfully following the instructions, your package will be released into the ROS ecosystem on the next distro synchronization!