Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2022pre preview release is now available!

Apertis v2022pre is the preview 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/v2022pre/releasenotes/

This release ships the linux 5.15 LTS kernel and is the third one to be
based on Bullseye.

Some highlights for this release:

 * Updates from Debian Bullseye
   This release is the third one based on Debian Bullseye, bringing plenty of
   upstream updates and features compared to the Buster baseline.

 * The reference Flatpak Runtime for Apertis
   Apertis has refined and polished its Flatpak runtime to provide a reference [1]
   that application authors can use to distribute their Apertis-based applications

 * Apply and enforce Ed25519 signatures for Apertis Flatpak packages and runtimes
   Apertis has now extended the support of Ed25519 signatures to Flatpak which
   adds a modern signature mechanism that is compliant with the
   Apertis Licensing Expectations [2].

 * Audio policy to mute song app when switching to video app
   Improvements in Wireplumber now allows system integrator and developer to support
   additional use cases, such as mute audio from a song application when switching to
   a video application.

 * Improves license compliance checks
   During this release Apertis has extended the license report and the license
   checks started in v2022dev1 to ensure all packages in target repository complies
   with the Apertis Licensing Expectations [2].

 * Improved availability of packaging tools for developer
   The scrips and tools used by developers when performing packaging activities
   have been reorganized and are now shipped as part of the SDK, improving the
   development experience.

 * BSH SMM S2 PRO board support
   Designed by BSH, the [SystemMaster S2 Pro] is an add-on board which provides
   input and output interfaces to a dedicated carrier board. Apertis users can now
   run a headless system using the `fixedfunction` image, which includes hardware
   support for wifi, bluetooth and audio. Check the [setup notes] for more info.

Images already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022pre/v2022pre.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Walter

[1] https://gitlab.apertis.org/infrastructure/apertis-flatpak-runtime
[2] https://www.apertis.org/policies/license-expectations/

-- 
Walter Lozano
Collabora Ltd.