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This page describes planned work for ROS 2.
The set of planned features and development efforts should provide insight into the overall direction of ROS 2.
If you would like to see other features on the roadmap, please get in touch with us at info@openrobotics.org.

Kilted Roadmap
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Kilted Kaiju is the ROS 2 release expected in May 2025.
See the :doc:`release page <../Releases/Release-Kilted-Kaiju>` for a detailed timeline.

The items in the roadmap below are the major features being worked on by the ROS 2 community.
The "Size" is an estimated size of the task, where *Small* means person-days to complete, *Medium* means person-weeks to complete, and *Large* means person-months to complete.

If you are working on a feature for ROS 2 and would like to have it listed, please open a pull request to `ROS 2 Documentation <https://github.com/ros2/ros2_documentation>`__.
If you'd like to take on one of these tasks, please :doc:`get in touch with us <../Contact>`.

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   * - Task
     - Size
     - Owner
     - Expected Completion
   * - Make ``rmw_zenoh_cpp`` a Tier-1 RMW
     - Large
     - Intrinsic
     - May 2025

Planned releases
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Please see the :doc:`Distributions page <../Releases>` for the timeline of and information about future distributions.

Contributing to ROS 2
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Looking for something to work on, or just want to help out? Here are a few resources to get you going.

1. The :doc:`Contributing <Contributing>` guide describes how to make a contribution to ROS 2.
2. Check out the list of :doc:`Feature Ideas <Feature-Ideas>` for inspiration.
3. For more information on the design of ROS 2 please see `design.ros2.org <https://design.ros2.org>`__.
4. The core code for ROS 2 is in the `ros2 GitHub organization <https://github.com/ros2>`__.
5. The Discourse forum/mailing list for discussing ROS 2 design is `ng-ros <https://discourse.ros.org/c/ng-ros>`__.
6. Questions should be asked on `Robotics Stack Exchange <https://robotics.stackexchange.com/>`__\ , make sure to include at least the ``ros2`` tag and the rosdistro version you are running, e.g. ``{DISTRO}``.