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New Apertis v2027dev1 development release available
by Walter Lozano 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2027dev1 development release is now available! Apertis v2027dev1 is the second development release of the Apertis v2027 stable release flow and it is based on Debian Trixie. It will lead to Apertis v2027.0 release in March 2027. 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/v2027dev1/releasenotes/ This release ships the Linux 6.18 kernel and it is based on Debian Trixie but later releases in the v2027 channel will be tracking newer kernel versions up to the next LTS. Some highlights: - Updates from Trixie - Package builder pipeline improvements Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2027dev1/v2027dev1.0/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! Walter -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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Apertis release candidate v2027dev1.0rc2 available for testing
by Walter Lozano 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that Apertis v2027dev1.0rc2 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2027dev1/v2027dev1.0rc2/amd64/ Arm32 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2027dev1/v2027dev1.0rc2/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2027dev1/v2027dev1.0rc2/arm64/ This new RC contains a fix for SDK [1]. The test reports are below: * https://qa.apertis.org/report/v2027dev1/20260311.1214/apt * https://qa.apertis.org/report/v2027dev1/20260311.1214/ostree * https://qa.apertis.org/report/v2027dev1/20260311.1214/lxc * https://qa.apertis.org/report/v2027dev1/20260311.1214/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2027/v2027dev1/release_schedule/ Thanks, Walter [1] https://gitlab.apertis.org/infrastructure/apertis-issues/-/issues/979 -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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New Apertis v2026.0 stable release available
by Walter Lozano 05 Mar '26

05 Mar '26

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2026.0 release is now available! Apertis v2026.0 is the first stable release of the Apertis v2026 stable release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2026 release stream until December 2027. This is the first stable point release in the v2026 channel and the first one based on Debian Trixie. As part of this release flow Apertis will track the latest changes in LTS Linux kernel 6.18.x series. As this is the first stable release after a rebase, all the packages have been updated to the version available in Debian Trixe, from which below is a list of highlights: - GCC 14.2.0-19 - Glib 2.84.4-3~deb13u2 - Glibc 2.41-12~deb13u1 - Systemd 257.9-1~deb13u1 - OpenSSL 3.5.4-1+deb13u2 - GNU TLS 3.8.9-3~deb13u1 - Nginx 1.26.3-3+deb13u1 - Gstreamer 1.26.2-2 - Pipewire 1.4.2-1 Additionally, this is the list of features introduced during the development of v2026: - Weston as default compositor - SDK image rework - Package builder CI improvements 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/v2026.0/releasenotes/ Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2026/v2026.0/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! Walter -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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