Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2024pre preview release is now available!

Apertis v2024pre is the preview release of the Apertis v2024 stable release flow and it is based on Debian Bookworm. It will lead to the LTS Apertis v2024.0 release in March 2024.

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/v2024pre/releasenotes/

This release ships the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel, later releases in the v2024 channel will be tracking kernel updates in this LTS version.

As this release is based on Debian Bookworm it includes several updates and bugfixes compared to the previous Apertis releases, below is a list of the highlights:

- GCC 12.2.0-14 - Glib 2.74.6-2 - Glibc 2.36-9+deb12u3 - Systemd 252.17-1~deb12u1 - OpenSSL 3.0.11-1~deb12u2 - GNU TLS 3.7.9-2 - Nginx 1.22.1-9 - Gstreamer 1.22.0-2 - Pipewire 0.3.84-1~bpo12+1

Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2024pre/v2024pre.0/

Debian Bookworm release notes can be found at https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Walter