[Devel] New Apertis v2024pre preview release available

[Walter Lozano]

Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2024pre preview release is 
now available!

Apertis v2024pre is the preview release of the Apertis
v2024 stable release flow and it is based on Debian Bookworm. It will 
lead to the LTS Apertis v2024.0 release in March 2024.

For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods,
see https://www.apertis.org/designs/release-flow/

You can find the full release notes at
https://www.apertis.org/release/v2024pre/releasenotes/

This release ships the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel, later releases in the v2024 
channel will be tracking kernel updates in this LTS version.

As this release is based on Debian Bookworm it includes several updates 
and bugfixes compared to the previous Apertis releases, below is a list 
of the highlights:

- GCC 12.2.0-14
- Glib 2.74.6-2
- Glibc 2.36-9+deb12u3
- Systemd 252.17-1~deb12u1
- OpenSSL 3.0.11-1~deb12u2
- GNU TLS 3.7.9-2
- Nginx 1.22.1-9
- Gstreamer 1.22.0-2
- Pipewire 0.3.84-1~bpo12+1

Images already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2024pre/v2024pre.0/

Debian Bookworm release notes can be found at
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Walter

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Walter Lozano
Collabora Ltd.