What is ROS ESM

As part of Ubuntu Pro for Applications subscription, ROS ESM gives you a hardened and long-term supported ROS system for robots and its applications. Even if your ROS distribution hasn’t reached its end-of-life (EOL), you can count on backports for critical security updates and CVEs fixes for your environment. In addition, all upstream changes are evaluated by hand to minimise breaking changes. By enabling our repositories, you will get trusted and stable binaries for your environment. If you are a standard or advanced customer, you also get ROS support. This provides you with a single point of contact to log ROS bugs.

Benefits

ROS ESM provides four key benefits:

• 10 year LTS release lifetime for ROS bringing the highest level of security and compliance

• Security patching for over 25,000 packages in ROS, Ubuntu Universe and Ubuntu main

• Better security KPIs as critical CVEs patches are applied on average in less than 24h

• Single point of contact to log bugs and propose fixes to guarantee timely and quality fixes

For more information, you can visit:

• Ubuntu Pro Service Description, Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) page,

• ROS ESM Specialist service description

Or, if you have specific questions, contact us for more information!

Enabling and using ROS ESM

For step-by-step guidance, take a look at our How-To guides on enabling and day-to-day usage of ROS ESM:

• Enable ROS ESM

• Set up a ROS ESM environment

• Combine ESM and Upstream ROS Components