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Apertis release roadmap for 2020Q4
by Emanuele Aina 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

A new quarter has begun so let's see which releases we're cooking before the end of this year. :) == Stable v2019.5 and v2020.3 Updates to the stable v2019 and v2020 channels, shipping the latest security fixes. == Preview v2021pre The release on the v2021 channel that will lead to the stable v2021.0 release in 2021Q1. The only significant change expected for this release is the kernel update from version 5.7 to the latest LTS that will be released later in the quarter. Product teams are recommended to start playing with v2021pre once it is released to get an early feeling of the latest release channel based on Debian 10 Buster. == Development v2022dev0 The first development release on the v2022 channel, which will lead to the v2022.0 release in 2022Q1. While v2022dev0 will still be based on Debian 10 Buster, v2022 is expected to be based on Debian 11 Bullseye. Given that the Bullseye soft freeze is planned in Feb 2021 and the hard freeze in March 2021 the current plan is to prepare for the rebase in the v2022dev1 cycle in 2021Q1 and then go ahead with the rebase in 2021Q2 for v2022dev2, which will be the first release based on Bullseye. Check https://www.apertis.org/release/ for more details. Cheers, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2021dev3 development release available
by Emanuele Aina 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2021dev3 development release is now available! Apertis v2021dev3 is the fourth development release of the Apertis v2021 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2021.0 release in March 2021. 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/v2021dev3/releasenotes/ Some highlights from this release: * Technology preview: 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards support Images for the 64bit Raspberry PI 3 and 4 are now part of the daily Apertis image builds. * Upstreaming of signed metadata verification for offline updates The version of OSTree in Apertis ships some downstream changes to protect against malicious static bundle superblocks as used for offline updates. The work has been recently landed upstream, see https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/1985 * LXC image recipes moved to GitLab CI/CD Another pipeline moved from Jenkins to GitLab CI/CD: the `tiny` image recipes for LXC are now built on GitLab * Mildenhall Flatpak apps Based on the work done in the previous cycle, most Mildenhall sample applications have been ported to the Mildenhall flatdeb pipeline. * Moved both Renesas R-Car and SABRE Lite to newer U-Boot As a byproduct of introducing support for the Raspberry Pi boards, the same u-boot source is now used for all the ARM reference platforms, which is an important step toward enabling transactional updates with rollbacks with the Apertis update manager everywhere. * Rhosydd VISS Rhosydd, the vehicle device daemon implementing the sensors and actuators API has been rebased to the data model from the latest W3C specification. * Production deployment of emulated OBS package builds on Intel x86-64 OBS workers for the ARM 32bit and 64bit architectures are now deployed in production using emulation on standard cloud virtual machines. * Website reorganization The contents of the designs.apertis.org website has been migrated to the main site and the required infrastructure put in place to redirect accesses to the new document locations. The full release notes contain more details and pointers to the work done as part of this release: https://www.apertis.org/release/v2021dev3/releasenotes/ Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021dev3/v2021dev3.0/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2021dev3.0rc1 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2021dev3.0rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021dev3/v2021dev3.0rc1/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021dev3/v2021dev3.0rc1/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2021dev3/v2021dev3.0rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021dev3/v2021dev3.0rc1/arm64/ Compared to v2021dev1 this release: * includes fixes from Debian Buster * previews support for 64 bit ARM Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 boards * OSTree signing mechanism aligned with upstream, which introduced a small API break * moves LXC image generation to GitLab CI/CD * ported most Mildenhall apps to Flatpak * ships a new U-Boot version * updates the Rhosydd data model to the VISS W3C specification * drops the deprecated internal target images Sagar, the test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021dev3/20200921.1223 * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021dev3/20200921.1223/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021dev3/20200921.1223/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021dev3/20200921.1223/nfs Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2020.2 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2020.2 stable release is now available! Apertis v2020.2 is the third stable release of the Apertis v2020 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2020 release stream until September 2021. 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/v2020.2/releasenotes/ This release includes: * the security updates from Debian Buster * the latest LTS Linux kernel on the 5.4.x series * HTTP pipelining fixes for APT backported from upstream * fixes to the glibc testsuite to make it work correctly on linux>=5.1 Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.2/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Test #2020091003
by Theodotos Andreou 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Testing #2020091003 Sorry for the noise. It's about this: https://phabricator.collabora.com/T23454

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Test #2020091001
by Theodotos Andreou 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Testing #2020091001

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Test #2020091000
by Theodotos Andreou 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Testing #2020091000

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Apertis release candidate v2020.2rc1 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2020.2rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.2rc1/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.2rc1/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2020/v2020.2rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.2rc1/arm64/ Compared to v2020.1 this release contains security updates from Debian Buster. Sagar, the test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20200905.0 * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20200905.0/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20200905.0/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20200905.0/nfs Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2019.4 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2019.4 stable release is now available! Apertis v2019.4 is the fifth stable release of the Apertis v2019 Long Term Support release flow. Apertis is committed to maintain the v2019 release stream until June 2021. For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods, see https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/release-flow.html You can find the full release notes at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2019.4/releasenotes/ This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster. Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.4/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2021dev2 development release available
by Emanuele Aina 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2021dev2 development release is now available! Apertis v2021dev2 is the third development release of the Apertis v2021 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2021.0 release in March 2021. For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods, see https://designs.apertis.org/v2021dev2/release-flow.html You can find the full release notes at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2021dev2/releasenotes/ Some highlights from this release: * Signed metadata verification for offline updates Apertis now uses a separate signature on the offline bundle metadata to ensure that the authenticity of the all the data processed can be asserted. * Mildenhall flatpak runtime It is now possible to port Mildenhall applications to the Flatpak application framework, using the new Mildenhall Flatpak runtime. * Encrypted offline updates technology preview Offline updates can no be encrypted to make their contents inaccessible from unathorized parties. * GitLabCI-based image building pipeline The images for this release have been built entirely on GitLab CI rather than Jenkins. The new pipeline is much faster and easier to manage. * The feedback from OBS builds is now integrated with GitLab CI uploads The build log when uploading packages to OBS is now captured as part of the GitLab CI pipeline: developers can now find all the information they need about their package uploads in a single place. * Emulated OBS package builds on Intel x86-64 proof-of-concept Support for building ARM and ARM64 packages on Intel x86-64 machines is being worked on and has shown some interesting potential at this early stage. * Website reorganization The contents on https://apertis.org website have been massively reorganized to make them more relevant and easier to find. * Trusted zones with OP-TEE document A new document describes how the OP-TEE trusted computing platform can be integrated into Apertis. * OSS compliance document This new document describes the workflow to collect licensing data for each package and emit bill-of-materials for each generated image. * Project-wide dashboard A new dashboard helps with the maintenance of the project, providing an overview of its global health. The full release notes contain more details and pointers to the work done as part of this release: https://www.apertis.org/release/v2021dev2/releasenotes/ Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021dev2/v2021dev2.0/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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