[Devel] Apertis release candidate v2024.0rc1 available for testing

[Walter Lozano]

Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce that Apertis v2024.0rc1 images for all the 
supported platforms have been published:

AMD64
  https://images.apertis.org/release/v2024/v2024.0rc1/amd64/

Arm32
  https://images.apertis.org/release/v2024/v2024.0rc1/armhf/

Arm64
  https://images.apertis.org/release/v2024/v2024.0rc1/arm64/

This is the first stable point release in the v2024 channel. Compared to 
v2024pre this release contains security updates from Debian Bookworm and 
the latest LTS Linux kernel on the 6.6.x series.

It also introduces the:

- Package centric testing support which allows developers to run custom 
tests on merge requests
- Image changelog to allow developers to check the changes between two 
daily images
- Additional compiler warnings enabled by default

The test reports are below:

* https://qa.apertis.org/report/v2024/20240221.0115//apt
* https://qa.apertis.org/report/v2024/20240221.0115/ostree
* https://qa.apertis.org/report/v2024/20240221.0115/lxc
* https://qa.apertis.org/report/v2024/20240221.0115/nfs

The full release schedule is described at
https://www.apertis.org/release/v2024.0/release_schedule/

Thanks,

Walter

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Walter Lozano
Collabora Ltd.