Hello everyone, the new Apertis 18.09.0 stable release is now available!

You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/18.09/ReleaseNotes

Some highlights from this release:

* Testing on immutable rootfs

High priority tests have been converted to preserve the base rootfs and carry their dependencies in a self-contained bundle: this improves the value of testing by keeping the tested system as close to the final one and enables testing on systems with a immutable rootfs like the OSTree images.

* GPLv3 sources cleanup

Some contents covered by the GPLv3 have been removed by packages in the target repository to make licensing scans easier. The involved GPLv3 code has never affected the binary artifacts in the images, but removing it from the packages avoids a considerable amount of whitelisting.

* Full file and package lists for each artifact

Artifacts now come with metadata files listing shipped packages and files to make checks and collecting statistics much easier/faster.

* Automatic updates on Phabricator about test failures in LAVA

Test failures are now automatically filed as task in Phabricator, considerably reducing the amount of manual work.

* Dockerization of Jenkins jobs

Now all jobs run under Docker, massively improving their reproducibility and providing more flexibility.

The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has landed in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/18.09/ReleaseNotes

Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/18.09/18.09.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!