Resources for users of ROS 1
It has been over a decade since development of ROS 2 began, and eight years since the first non-beta release, Ardent Apalone. Over the years we have seen ROS 2 usage grow to be by far the majority of all ROS users.
However, there is still a significant set of users who are on ROS 1, even as its final release went end-of-life in mid-2025. We recognise that many users have good reasons for still using ROS 1, such as long-lived products that must continue to be supported. For all of our remaining ROS 1 users, we have assembled in this article a list of resources that are commercially available to support you. These organisations provide a variety of services that can be of use to someone who is continuing to use ROS 1 in a commercial setting, such as bug fixes and security patches. If you have a need for such services, we encourage you to give them a call.
Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution that is frequently used as a ROS platform, provide an Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) service for ROS 1 users.
Ekumen Labs have been working on and with ROS for over 13 years. Their engineers have a deep knowledge of ROS 1 and how to support applications built on it.
Honu Robotics is made up of engineers with a cumulative decades of experience with ROS, including several of the core contributors.
