There was a release of package updates for Kinetic a few days ago: https://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packa... . It looks like that included releases of lots of packages.
It sounds like you're seeing either an ABI compatibility issue, or a bug introduced by one of the changes in one of the packages that was updated. In general ROS strives to maintain backward compatibility with these updates so that you don't need to recompile when you update packages, but sometimes the packages maintainers make mistakes, or it's just not possible.
If this is an ABI compatibility issue or a new bug, it should be reported upstream immediately so that the maintainers can decide how best to handle it. If you're not sure which package or stack to report this issue on, I suggest you update your question with the exact error message that you're seeing, or ask a new question that includes the exact error message.
Probably. It would help to know if you're just upgrading packages within Kinetic, or upgrading from an older version of ROS (Indigo, Jade, etc) to Kinetic.
From an older version of Kinetic. Is it possible to roll back to previous versions of the packages? Or reinstall without that update?
We've also been having issues with a kinetic build that seems to have been released approx 4 days ago. We build all our ros into docker containers, I have a docker from 5 days ago that launches our stack fine, the one from 4 days ago fails. Half of the nodes die on launch without any useful logs.