Issues

• Processes started by ros2 launch inherit its DDS sockets

  ros2/launch#1031 · Filter by author erfanMhi opened on Oct 1, 2026

• launch.logging renders {msg}, so %-style logging args are dropped

  ros2/launch#1018 · Filter by author mfinean opened on Sep 28, 2026

• [launch_testing] pytest>8.1 dropped the legacy "path" argument from its internal hooks on humble

  bug
  ros2/launch#979 · Filter by author caioaamaral opened on Jul 1, 2026
  5

• Use a relative target for the latest log symlink so it survives different absolute mount paths (host/Docker)

  ros2/launch#978 · Filter by author russkel opened on Jun 17, 2026

• --print-description option shows unhelpful output

  bug
  ros2/launch#975 · Filter by author 130s opened on May 19, 2026

• Autotranslate between launch formats

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#957 · Filter by author emersonknapp opened on Mar 20, 2026
  1

• Launch "dry run" to render to commands without running any

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#956 · Filter by author emersonknapp opened on Mar 20, 2026
  3

  

• YAML: Allow use of typed values (boolean & number) instead of requiring strings for everything

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#955 · Filter by author emersonknapp opened on Mar 20, 2026

• YAML frontend: support direct use of key:value dict for args, params, etc instead of lists of name:+value: dicts

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#954 · Filter by author emersonknapp opened on Mar 20, 2026

• Support for OptionalDeclareLaunchArguments

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#946 · Filter by author michaelcarlstrom-civrobotics opened on Feb 23, 2026

• Add colorlog support

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#942 · Filter by author solonovamax opened on Feb 6, 2026
  3

• ROS 2 YAML launch: "choices" is not supported in arg

  ros2/launch#939 · Filter by author rafal-gorecki opened on Jan 29, 2026
  4

  

• 🧑‍🌾 launch_testing_ros freezing some builds without log output

  bug
  ros2/launch#937 · Filter by author miguelgonrod opened on Jan 19, 2026
  5

• YAML: group should also accept a key actions: like the Python API

  enhancementgood first issuehelp wanted
  ros2/launch#931 · Filter by author emersonknapp opened on Nov 25, 2025
  5

  

• Add basic doc skeleton for launch_xml/yaml frontends

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#929 · Filter by author emersonknapp opened on Nov 12, 2025
  1

  

• Include required arguments passed from commandline are not recognized

  bug
  ros2/launch#907 · Filter by author SuperJappie08 opened on Oct 3, 2025
  2

  

• [launch_testing]: Nightly test failure with rmw_zenoh

  bug
  ros2/launch#904 · Filter by author Yadunund opened on Aug 8, 2025
  

• Add an option to not capture stdout and stderr

  enhancementhelp wanted
  ros2/launch#892 · Filter by author Hugal31 opened on Jul 1, 2025
  2

• Type annotations do not reflect that Entity.get_attr()'s data_type parameter can be None

  backlogbug
  ros2/launch#888 · Filter by author christophebedard opened on Jun 19, 2025
  

• XML: Allow setting environment variables to promote include reuse

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#852 · Filter by author Ryanf55 opened on Apr 6, 2025
  1

  

• IncludeLaunchDescription - request name without suffix/extension

  enhancement
  ros2/launch#849 · Filter by author emersonknapp opened on Mar 25, 2025
  2

  

• EventHandler should normalize entities into iterable type

  ros2/launch#829 · Filter by author huweiATgithub opened on Feb 24, 2025
  

• Add OpaqueFunction to list at docs.ros.org

  bughelp wanted
  ros2/launch#826 · Filter by author EmmanuelMess opened on Feb 7, 2025
  4

• argument collision in included files (xml and yaml)

  ros2/launch#815 · Filter by author asherikov opened on Dec 19, 2024
  7

  

• Stateful event callbacks?

  ros2/launch#809 · Filter by author TSNoble opened on Nov 16, 2024