Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that the Apertis v2022.0 stable release is now available!
Apertis v2022.0 is the first stable release of the Apertis v2022 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2022 release stream until December 2023.
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/v2022.0/releasenotes/
Some highlights for this release: * Flatpak as the reference application framework The Canterbury/Ribchester application framework has now been fully replaced by Flatpak and a reference org.apertis runtime is also available for application authors to distribute their Apertis-based applications on top of any Flatpak-supporting system.
* AGL-compositor + Maynard as the reference graphical shell A modern, extensible Wayland compositor and a new reference shell have now replaced the Mildenhall HMI as the default graphical interface on the HMI images,
* PipeWire+WirePlumber as the reference audio manager From this release the Pipewire multimedia manager and the WirePlumber policy manager replace PulseAudio as the default audio manager, bringing more efficiency, flexibility, and better integration in container-based application frameworks like Flatpak. A compatibility layer ensures that applications do not need any change to use the new audio manager.
* Modernization of GPL-3-free replacements Compliance to the licensing expectations is now enforced without outdated forks affecting the TLS stack, GnuPG or GNU Coreutils.
* WPA3 support in ConnMan Apertis now ships support for WPA3-SAE authentication and WPA3-Personal transition mode in ConnMan and wpa_supplicant.
* Licensing reports As part of the image building pipeline Apertis now also produces detailed reports listing the licenses covering the binaries shipped on each image.
* Fixed Function and HMI images to replace minimal and target To give a clearer purpose to each image type and provide a better guide to developers looking at the reference images for their product recipes, the HMI and FixedFunction images replace the target and minimal image types.
* Improved Raspberry Pi support The Raspberry Pi support has improved including: * Support for RPi 400 model. * Graphical interface now booting without input devices attached. * Fixed USB support. * Documentation to bring up Raspberry Pi 4.
* iMX8MN Variscite Symphony and 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. Support has also been added for the iMX8MN Variscite Symphony board.
* OVA VirtualBox SDK appliance To make the initial setup easier for users of the Apertis SDK with VirtualBox, a full OVA appliance file is provided to let developers create their Apertis virtual machine in Virtualbox with just a double click.
Images are available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022/v2022.0/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!