Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2026.0 release is now available! Apertis v2026.0 is the first stable release of the Apertis v2026 stable release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2026 release stream until December 2027. This is the first stable point release in the v2026 channel and the first one based on Debian Trixie. As part of this release flow Apertis will track the latest changes in LTS Linux kernel 6.18.x series. As this is the first stable release after a rebase, all the packages have been updated to the version available in Debian Trixe, from which below is a list of highlights: - GCC 14.2.0-19 - Glib 2.84.4-3~deb13u2 - Glibc 2.41-12~deb13u1 - Systemd 257.9-1~deb13u1 - OpenSSL 3.5.4-1+deb13u2 - GNU TLS 3.8.9-3~deb13u1 - Nginx 1.26.3-3+deb13u1 - Gstreamer 1.26.2-2 - Pipewire 1.4.2-1 Additionally, this is the list of features introduced during the development of v2026: - Weston as default compositor - SDK image rework - Package builder CI improvements 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/v2026.0/releasenotes/ Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2026/v2026.0/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! Walter -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.