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New Apertis 17.06 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Hello everyone, the new Apertis 17.06 stable release is now available! You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/17.06/ReleaseNotes Some highlights from this release: * Application framework for headless setups A leaner version of the Canterbury/Ribchester application framework that targets deployments not tied to the Milldenhall HMI is now part of the release, making Apertis even more flexible. * Apertis running in a container Apertis can now be run in a LXC container and detailes setup instructions are now available in the wiki. In this release the application framework still depends on privileged Btrfs operations, but the work to avoid that dependency has been already landed in th 17.09 archives. * Sample app-bundles Three new application bundles have been added to demonstrate how to use simple web APIs over HTTPS, how to use platform services like Newport and how to make app-bundles shipping an agent with no UI. * AppArmor in full enforcing mode on headless images AppArmor protection is now completely enforced on the minimal images for headless setups, matching our security goals on that kind of setup. * ARM64 support in development tools An ARM64 cross-compiler is now available in the Apertis 17.06 SDK images, ready to be used with the Apertis Development Tool and the pre- generated ARM64 sysroots published on the Apertis web server, enabling full app-bundle development for ARM64 targets from the Apertis SDK. * Inter-domain communications The inter-domain communications design has been expanded to cover container-based setups, domains not running Linux or not running a dbus-daemon, service discovery, and audio and video streaming across domains. The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has been poured in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/17.06/ReleaseNotes Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/17.06/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Contribution workflow updates
by Justin Kim 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hello everyone, In Apertis project, we already have good information in Guidelines [0], but they are little bit scattered around whole wiki pages. Thus, I merged them into one page to see how to work with patches more clearly. https://wiki.apertis.org/Guidelines/HowToWorkWithPatches <https://wiki.apertis.org/Guidelines/HowToWorkWithPatches> Please check the page above. Of course, any opinions are welcomed. [0]: https://wiki.apertis.org/Guidelines <https://wiki.apertis.org/Guidelines> Best regards, Justin

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Phabricator outage
by Tracey Green 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

All This is to advise you that we will be doing some maintenance work on Phabricator which will result in Phabricator being unavailable. Date and Time : Friday 31st March (today) @ 18:00 (UTC) Expected outage time : 2 hours Please be aware that Phabricator will have a slightly different look and feel, but it should only take you a few minutes to find your way around again For more detail on the changes to the UI see https://blog.phacility.com/post/8/the_new_home_menu/ -- Kind Regards Tracey Green Project Manager, Collabora Ltd +44 1223 362967 http://www.collabora.co.uk

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New Apertis 17.03 stable release available
by Tracey Green 24 Mar '17

24 Mar '17

Hello everyone, the new Apertis 17.03 stable release is now available! You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/17.03/ReleaseNotes Some highlights from this release: * ARM64 support All the packages in the archive have been rebuilt for the 64bit version of the ARM instruction set. No full images are available at the moment, as no reference hardware has been selected. * Application framework on headless setups Minimal images without HMI now ship the application framework with the Canterbury application manager taking care of running agents. * Mildenhall UI toolkit The major pain points about using the Mindelhall UI toolkit from third-party application have been addressed, making it more reliable and maintainable. * Metadata-based permissions design A first set of use-cases have been collected to provide the foundation for designing a metadata-base permissions system which would save application authors from having to learn the fine details of the AppArmor rules language. * Drop unused components A few old, no longer used components have been dropped to be able to focus on our core values. Some have been deprecated, with the intent of dropping them once all the depending applications and services have been ported to the recommended solutions. The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has been poured in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/17.03/ReleaseNotes Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/17.03/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Kind Regards Tracey Green Project Manager, Collabora Ltd +44 1223 362967 http://www.collabora.co.uk

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Fill in release notes for 17.03
by Ekaterina Gerasimova 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi all, please add all the things that you've been working on to the 17.03 release notes in the next couple of days. You can find the draft at https://wiki.apertis.org/17.03/ReleaseNotes Thanks Kat

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Apertis 17.06: distribution bootstrap
by Andrew Shadura 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hello everyone, We’ve been working on branching off Apertis 17.06, and it seems it is ready now. The repositories should be already available, packages should be building, Jenkins has been updated and should be building both packages and images. Please note Apertis 17.06 is in the early development phase, and as changes land there packages may not be installable at all times. If you feel something isn’t working the way it should, don’t hesitate to speak up and report your issues. Please note master branches of Git repositories will now result in builds for/against 17.06; changes targeting 17.03 should go to 17.03 branches we have created in all repositories. -- Cheers, Andrew Shadura --- Collabora Ltd The Platinum Building St John's Innovation Park CB4 0DS, Cambridge, United Kingdom https://www.collabora.co.uk/

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New Apertis 16.12 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

Hello everyone, the new Apertis 16.12 stable release is now available! You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/16.12/ReleaseNotes Some highlights from this release: * Stable application bundle layout Version 1.0.0 of the Application Bundle Specification [bundle-spec] has been published, which means that the layout of bundles is now stable and that bundles that adhere to it are guaranteed to be installable on any future release of Apertis with no changes. * Web runtime The first implementation of the Web runtime specification [web-runtime] has landed in Apertis 16.12 as a technology preview. Application bundles can use the /usr/bin/bredon-0-launcher shared launcher to exclusively rely on HTML/JS/CSS for their needs while still being able to access all the native GObject-based APIs provides by Apertis through the GObject-Introspection bindings provided by Seed. * Application store client The old application store client implementation (Frome) has been refreshed to take advantage of the recent development in the finalized bundle specification, in the application manager (Canterbury) and in the application mounter (Ribchester), while preserving the same D-Bus API for applications. [bundle-spec] https://appdev.apertis.org/documentation/bundle-spec.html [web-runtime] https://docs.apertis.org/latest/web-runtime.html The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has been poured in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/16.12/ReleaseNotes Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/16.12/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis 17.03: distribution bootstrap
by Andrew Shadura 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hello everyone, Apertis 17.03 has been branched off yesterday. The repositories should be already available, packages should be building, Jenkins is being updated now and should soon be building both packages and images. Please note Apertis 17.03 is in the early development phase, and as changes land there packages may not be installable at all times. Please note master branches of Git repositories will now result in builds for/against 17.03; changes targeting 16.12 should go to 16.12 branches we have created in all repositories. -- Cheers, Andrew Shadura --- Collabora Ltd Kett House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2JH, United Kingdom https://www.collabora.com/

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Git workflow updates
by Andrew Shadura 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Hello everyone, As described in [0], we’ve been using specially formatted commit messages for a while now to automate closing and referring issues. Please try to follow the updated guidelines when submitting your contributions. To summarise the guidelines, Apertis issues referred in the commit messages are transferred into the package’s changelog when it’s updated using `gbp dch` tool. When the package is uploaded, apertis-qa-bot will automatically update the status of the issues in Phabricator as the package is built and installed into the images. [0]: https://wiki.apertis.org/Guidelines/Contribution_process -- Cheers, Andrew

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New Apertis 16.09 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

Hello everyone, the new Apertis 16.09 stable release is now available! You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/16.09/ReleaseNotes Some highlights from this release: * Routing information sharing for navigation services Traprain is a new library introduced in Apertis 16.09 allowing navigation services to share routing information with third party applications. It enables applications to get the available routes to reach one or more destinations: for instance, with Traprain an application can request the routes to the nearby restaurants and sort them by estimated arrival time form the current location to help choosing the one to book. * Hardware accelerated support for Web contents Apertis 16.09 ships with readily available support for accelerating Web contents (CSS3 transforms and animations, WebGL scenes) using the GPU efficiently under Wayland. This means that you can navigate the modern Web even with limited CPU resources and run WebGL scenes fully unleashing the power of your GPU. Most of this work has been submitted upstream and we plan to submit the remaining optimizations soon. * Canterbury API for launching preferences A new API (org.apertis.Canterbury.AppDbHandler.LaunchAppPreferences) has been implemented to allow applications to launch their preferences in mildenhall-settings, including design and support work, and unit tests for the implementation in Canterbury. The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has been poured in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/16.09/ReleaseNotes Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/16.09/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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