Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2022dev1 development release is now available!
Apertis v2022dev1 is the first development 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/v2022dev1/releasenotes/
This release ships the linux 5.10 LTS kernel and is the last one in the v2022 flow to be based on Buster. The upcoming v2022dev2 release will be based on Debian Bullseye, so expect some substantial changes. :)
Some highlights for this release:
* Replace GnuTLS/GMP with GPL-3-free alternative on target images From this releases a selection of packages has been switched from their GnuTLS backend to the OpenSSL one, to be later able to upgrade the GnuTLS stack without being restricted by the GPL-3 provisions.
* Technology preview: Licensing reports for images As part of the image building pipeline Apertis now also produces detailed JSON reports listing the licenses covering the binaries shipped on each image.
* Infrastructure status page To help developers diagnose these issues and to help administrators to promptly react on unscheduled downtimes some monitoring services have been reviewed and a status page keeping track of the health of all the Apertis services is now available at https://status.apertis.org
* Improved SDK persistent disk tests The manual tests excercising the persistent SDK workspaces are now much easier to run and have also been made much more robust.
Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!