Hello everyone, the new Apertis 17.12.1 update to the stable release is now available!
You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/17.12.1/ReleaseNotes
In particular in this update the Bash shell is no longer being shipped on minimal and target images, as Bash is now GPLv3 and those images are meant to provide a reference for deployments where some of the GPLv3 provisions can be excessively challenging to fulfill.
This means that scripts relying on /bin/bash being available or /bin/sh supporting Bash-specific features won't work anymore.
Those scripts need to be updated to use /bin/sh (which is now provided by the Dash shell) and should only rely on POSIX shell features.
The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has landed in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/17.12.1/ReleaseNotes
Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/17.12/17.12.1/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!