Software and middleware

Eclipse Zenoh

Zenoh combines publish-subscribe, query and storage in one protocol, and targets links that DDS handles poorly: constrained devices, lossy networks, robot-to-cloud. It can replace DDS under ROS 2 through rmw_zenoh.

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

OrganizationEclipse Foundation (projet Eclipse IoT, en incubation), contributeur principal ZettaScale Technology
CategoryRealtime transport
LicenseEPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0
Open sourceyes
ROSyes
First release2020
GovernanceCommitters de l'Eclipse Foundation (projet en incubation) ; ZettaScale Technology en est le principal contributeur et l'éditeur commercial.
Current version1.10.0 (14 août 2026)
Used byTurtleBot 4 (plateforme robot mobile ROS 2)declaredTractonomy Robotics (robots logistiques autonomes)declaredDragonBot (diffusion de données capteurs en périphérie)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.

  1. First release Neutral

    The current official repository eclipse-zenoh/zenoh is created; a same-named predecessor at ADLINK dates back to 2017, with no sourced proof of code continuity.

Sources: GitHub, official repository (SPDX header) (2026-08-27)Eclipse Foundation (2026-08-27)GitHub, official repository (creation, first tags) (2026-08-27)GitHub Releases, official repository (2026-08-14)GitHub, official ros2/rmw_zenoh repository (2026-08-27)Eclipse Zenoh (official project site) (2026-08-27)

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