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!
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Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
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
As part of on going efforts to streamline and improve the Apertis
infrastructure we have been evaluating the mailing lists provided by
the Apertis project. The overwhelming majority of the discussions
relating to Apertis are no longer carried out via email. As a result it
has been a number of years since any traffic has been recorded on the
maintainers and packagers lists and the monthly traffic on the testing
and devel lists has dropped to single digits.
With this in mind we have decided to merge the mailing lists. We have
transferred any users signed up to the testing, maintainers and
packagers mailing lists over to the devel list and will be closing the
aforementioned lists.
Those that have been unaware of their continued presence on these
mailing lists and who wish to unsubscribe can do so from the mailman
interface:
https://lists.apertis.org/listinfo/devel
Thank you for your continued interest in the Apertis project,
Martyn
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2020.1 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2020.1 is the second 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://designs.apertis.org/v2020/release-flow.html
You can find the full release notes at
https://www.apertis.org/release/v2020.1/releasenotes/
This release includes:
* the security updates from Debian Buster
* the latest LTS Linux kernel on the 5.4.x series
* HTTPS support in apertis-hawkbit-agent
* a fix for apertis-update-manager to avoid initiating a rollback on
crashes not due to the update process
* an AppArmor profile fix for Bluez to access /dev/hidraw devices
* updated support for ed25519 signatures in OSTree
* expanded static delta signature support in OSTree
* FIT support in U-Boot
* completely disabled the GPL-3 “part” plugin in UDisks2
* completely disabled the mdraid and crypto plugins in UDisks2
* a new libwpa-client-dev packge to access the hostapd control
protocol
* a fix for UPower when starting up on a empty /var
* dropped unsupported architectures from binutils and the GCC cross-
compiler
* fixes for Debos to avoid mangling /etc/resolv.conf
* GitLab-CI image building pipeline
Images already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.1/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2019.3 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2019.3 is the third 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/v2019.3/releasenotes/
This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster.
Images already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.3/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
Hello everyone,
Yesterday I sent an E-mail to the testing mailing list as a small step
in my quest on learning how to send proper release emails. This one
should be better.
The new Apertis v2020.0 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2020.0 is the first stable release of the LTS Apertis v2020.
Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2020 release stream until
September 2021. Release notes are available at:
https://www.apertis.org/release/v2020.0/releasenotes/
For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods:
https://designs.apertis.org/v2020/release-flow.html
Images are already available for download:
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.0/
Some highlights for this release:
* Target images for the i.MX6 SabreLite boards with graphics support
using the mainline stack and the open source etnaviv driver are now
available.
* The OSTree updates in this release are now signed to prove their
source is trusted.
* Linux kernel 5.4
* This release introduces initial support for pstore in the U-Boot
bootloader and the Linux kernel to debug hard crashes by
providing a way to store logs for postmortem analysis.
* A proof-of-concept hawkBit server instance has been deployed for
Apertis and the image building pipelines now automatically push
updates to it as OSTree static bundles.
* GitLab-to-OBS workflow enhancements
* When pulling updates from upstream distributions like Debian, the
package sources are now automatically scanned to identify code
released under problematic licenses as early as possible.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to make Apertis awesome!
Peter
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2019.2 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2019.2 is the third 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/v2019.2/releasenotes/
This release includes:
* the security updates from Debian Buster
* a fix for the `bluez` package resolving a conflict with its
AppArmor profile
* the removal of the dependency on the `libquvi` package from
`totem-pl-parser` due to GPL-3 licensing issues
* the AppArmor profile for the `tracker` package has been moved to the
package itself, rather than in the `chaiwala-apparmor-profiles`
package
* the switch to the ICU backend in the `tracker` package to avoid
GPL-3 issues with `libunistring`
The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has
landed in this release:
https://www.apertis.org/release/v2019.2/releasenotes/
Images are already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.2/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2021dev0.0 development release is now available!
This is the first development release in the v2021 cycle which will
lead to a new stable release in 2021Q1.
You can find the full release notes at
https://wiki.apertis.org/V2021dev0/ReleaseNotes
The v2021dev0 release ships the latest 5.4.2 kernel and enables the
Egalax driver to be able to handle input from the reference LVDS
touchscreen for the i.MX6 Sabrelite boards when using the HMI on the
target images.
Other minor changes also landed compared to v2020pre, mostly about the
AppArmor profiles for Tracker and systemd-logind.
The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has
landed in this release:
https://wiki.apertis.org/V2021dev0/ReleaseNotes
Images are already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021dev0/v2021dev0.0/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com
Hello everyone,
the new Apertis v2020pre.0 preview release is now available!
No major changes are expected before the stable v2020.0 release happens
next quarter, so people waiting for it can start experimenting with the
current preview release.
You can find the full release notes at
https://wiki.apertis.org/V2020pre/ReleaseNotes
Some highlights from this release:
* Linux kernel 5.4
Apertis v2020pre.0 ships with the latest LTS kernel version, released
upstream just a bit more than two weeks ago.
* Persistent kernel panic storage
Support for the pstore subsystem has been enabled in the kernel and
added to the U-Boot bootloader.
* hawkBit integration proof-of-concept
A demonstration setup using hawkBit to deploy updates is now available.
* Early license scans with GitLab CI
The packaging pipeline has been extended to check for inappropriate
licenses when importing sources from Debian.
* Whole-archive package installability checks
Automated tests now check that the relevant dependencies in the archive
can be satisfied.
The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has
landed in this release:
https://wiki.apertis.org/V2020pre/ReleaseNotes
Images are already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020pre/v2020pre.0/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!
--
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com