Software and middleware

Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Name: Eclipse Cyclone DDS
Brand: Eclipse Foundation (projet Eclipse IoT), contributeur principal ZettaScale Technology

Cyclone DDS implements the OMG Data Distribution Service 1.4 standard (published March 2015) and is one of the middleware options officially supported by ROS 2. It is governed by the Eclipse Foundation, so no single vendor controls it.

Updated 2026-10-11 · Last verified 2026-10-10

OrganizationEclipse Foundation (projet Eclipse IoT), contributeur principal ZettaScale Technology

CategoryRealtime transport

LicenseEPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause

Open sourceyes

ROSyes

First release2018

GovernanceCommitters élus de l'Eclipse Foundation ; ZettaScale Technology est le principal contributeur de code.

Current version11.0.1 (20 mars 2026)

Used byGhost Robotics (quadrupèdes)declaredSeegrid, ex-Box Robotics (nuages de points LiDAR 3D)declaredTrajekt Sports (lanceurs robotisés, Major League Baseball)declaredRover Robotics (véhicules autonomes robustes)declared

Trajectory

The dated, sourced shifts in this project's life: licence, governance, archival, a component opening up. What the brick did, not what it announces.

5 September 2017 Governance Opening

ADLINK files the Eclipse Cyclone DDS project proposal with the Eclipse Foundation, offering the Vortex OpenSplice 6.8 code base as initial contribution: a vendor product moves under foundation governance.

Source: Eclipse Foundation (proposition de projet)
January 2018 First release Neutral

The public repository eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds is created, four months after the proposal. The first Eclipse release, 0.1.0, follows in 2019.

Sources: GitHub, official eclipse-cyclonedds repository (2026-08-27)Eclipse Foundation (2026-08-27)GitHub, official repository (creation date) (2026-08-27)GitHub Releases, official repository (2026-03-20)ROS 2 documentation (official repository) (2026-08-27)Eclipse Foundation Newsletter (article ADLINK) (2021-01-01)Eclipse Foundation (proposition de projet) (2017-09-05)

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