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Migration Guides
Coming from ros_control (ROS 1)
Between different ROS 2 distributions
This list summarizes necessary changes to your code for a version update to iron. If you are skipping a distribution update, make sure to read the migration guides of all intermediate distributions.
For non-breaking updates, see the Release Notes.