diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 911c64ee..6d1ceda1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,3 +32,5 @@ rosbuild_add_executable(test_scan_filter_chain EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL test/test_scan_f
 target_link_libraries(test_scan_filter_chain laser_scan_filters)
 rosbuild_add_gtest_build_flags(test_scan_filter_chain)
 rosbuild_add_rostest(test/test_scan_filter_chain.launch)
+
+rosbuild_make_distribution(1.5.4)
diff --git a/stack.xml b/stack.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e990b08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stack.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<stack>
+  <description brief='Filters for processing laser scans'>
+
+    Assorted filters designed to operate on 2D planar laser scanners,
+    which use the sensor_msgs/LaserScan type.
+
+  </description>
+  <author>Tully Foote</author>
+  <license>BSD</license>
+  <review status="Doc reviewed" notes="09/29/2009"/>
+  <url>http://ros.org/wiki/laser_filters</url>
+  <depend stack="common_msgs" /> <!-- geometry_msgs, sensor_msgs -->
+  <depend stack="filters" /> <!-- filters -->
+  <depend stack="geometry" /> <!-- tf, angles -->
+  <depend stack="perception_pcl" /> <!-- pcl ros message conversions -->
+  <depend stack="pluginlib" /> <!-- pluginlib -->
+  <depend stack="ros" />
+  <depend stack="ros_comm" /> <!-- std_msgs, roscpp, message_filters -->
+</stack>