Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2019.7 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2019.7 is the eighth stable release of the Apertis v2019 Long
Term Support release flow.
This is the *last* release in the v2019 release stream, which has now
reached its end of support and will not receive any further update.
Users are strongly recommended to update to the v2020 release stream or
newer.
For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods,
see https://www.apertis.org/policies/release-flow/
You can find the full release notes at
https://www.apertis.org/release/v2019.7/releasenotes/
This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster.
Images already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.7/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2022dev1 development release is now available!
Apertis v2022dev1 is the first development release of the Apertis
v2022 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2022.0
release in March 2022.
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/v2022dev1/releasenotes/
This release ships the linux 5.10 LTS kernel and is the last one in the
v2022 flow to be based on Buster. The upcoming v2022dev2 release will
be based on Debian Bullseye, so expect some substantial changes. :)
Some highlights for this release:
* Replace GnuTLS/GMP with GPL-3-free alternative on target images
From this releases a selection of packages has been switched from
their GnuTLS backend to the OpenSSL one, to be later able to upgrade
the GnuTLS stack without being restricted by the GPL-3 provisions.
* Technology preview: Licensing reports for images
As part of the image building pipeline Apertis now also produces
detailed JSON reports listing the licenses covering the binaries
shipped on each image.
* Infrastructure status page
To help developers diagnose these issues and to help administrators
to promptly react on unscheduled downtimes some monitoring services
have been reviewed and a status page keeping track of the health of
all the Apertis services is now available at
https://status.apertis.org
* Improved SDK persistent disk tests
The manual tests excercising the persistent SDK workspaces are now
much easier to run and have also been made much more robust.
Images already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2021.0 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2021.0 is the first stable release of the Apertis v2021
release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2021 release
stream until December 2022.
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/v2021.0/releasenotes/
Some highlights for this release:
* Resilient upgrades with atomic rollback on Renesas R-Car
The OSTree-based update manager is now fully supported on Renesas R-
Car boards in addition to the i.MX6 SABRE Lite boards already
supported in previous releases.
* Enhanced offline updates signatures and encryption
The OSTree static delta bundle signature mechanism used for offline
updates now also cover the bundle metadata.
In addition, offline update bundles can now be encrypted to make
their contents inaccessible from unauthorized parties.
* New Rhosydd data model and API based on the W3C VISS specification
Rhosydd, the vehicle device daemon implementing the sensors and
actuators API has been rebased to the data model from the latest W3C
specification.
* Technology preview: 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards support
Apertis now ships rpi64 images for the widely available 64-bit
Raspberry Pi boards to make experimenting on real Arm hardware as
accessible as possible.
* Technology preview: Maynard and the AGL compositor
A modern, extensible Wayland compositor and a new reference shell
are available in this release, albeit not being the default yet.
* Technology preview: Secure boot on i.MX6 SABRE Lite
A first iteration of trusted boot on the i.MX6 SABRE Lite boards is
now part of the minimal and target ARM 32-bit OSTree images.
* GitLab CI/CD image building pipelines
From this release Apertis has fully switched to GitLab CI/CD to
build the release artifacts, and Jenkins is no longer supported.
* Long term reproducibility of image builds
The GitLab CI/CD pipelines used to build the Apertis v2021 release
make reproducing past builds easily and reliably, as described in
the Long term reproducibility document.
* Flatpak runtime and application build pipeline
To make the adoption of Flatpak easier, Apertis provides a reference
pipeline to build runtimes and application based on packages in the
Apertis repository.
Images and other artifacts are available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.0/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2020.4 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2020.4 is the fifth 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/v2020.4/releasenotes/
This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster and the
latest LTS Linux kernel on the 5.4.x series.
Images are available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.4/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2019.6 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2019.6 is the seventh 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/v2019.6/releasenotes/
This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster.
Images already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.6/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com