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
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Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
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!
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Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
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!
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Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com