From 94648cca00619cd6316d04b977295d61ab879517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shehab <sattia@hello-robot.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:50:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Changed contig.tostring() -> contig.tobytes() because
 tostring() is deprecated in numpy>=1.19 and removed entirely in newer
 versions of numpy.

---
 ros2_numpy/image.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ros2_numpy/image.py b/ros2_numpy/image.py
index bee1ded..d34ece7 100644
--- a/ros2_numpy/image.py
+++ b/ros2_numpy/image.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def numpy_to_image(arr, encoding):
 
     # make the array contiguous in memory, as mostly required by the format
     contig = np.ascontiguousarray(arr)
-    im.data = contig.tostring()
+    im.data = contig.tobytes()
     im.step = contig.strides[0]
     im.is_bigendian = (
         arr.dtype.byteorder == '>' or