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!