Hello,
Apertis 15.12 is being currently prepared to be released by December 11th, 2015. The following activities are being carried out:
* Rebase Apertis distribution has been synced against Ubuntu 15.10, codenamed "Wily Werewolf", a total of 507 packages conform target component, from which 80 packages have been merged, 165 have been synced from upstream. Development component has a total of 1161 packages, from which 66 packages have been merged and 428 have been synced with upstream. SDK component with a total of 527, 17 packages have been merged and 158 packages have been synced with upstream. There are still few activities on-going, as integrating latest Bluez5 stack and all its dependencies, however Apertis is fully functional and usable.
* Full Rebuild Friday, November 13th, a full rebuild will be triggered just to test verify the complete set of Apertis packages are buildable.
* Software freeze Apertis package set will be frozen on Wednesday, November 25th, 2015. After software freeze, only bug fixes will be accepted.
* SDK release SDK beta image will be released Monday, November 30th, 2015.
* Final release Target date is December 11th 2015.
* Release Notes A template document for developers to document latest features will be placed at: https://wiki.apertis.org/15.12/ReleaseNotes
Regards,