Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2019.0 stable release is now available!

Apertis v2019.0 is the first Long Term Support stable release of the Apertis v2019 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintain the v2019 release stream until June 2021.

For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods, see https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/release-flow.html

You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/V2019.0/ReleaseNotes

Some highlights from this release:

* Stabilization

Improvements in our workflows allowed us to import all the latest updates and security fixes from Debian with increased reliability, while continuously testing the resulting images on our hardware lab, ensuring that the first Apertis LTS release matches the highest standard of quality.

* Workflows and Quality Assurance

The GitLab-based packaging workflow has been improved to help us keep the maintenance effort needed to develop a whole distribution under control, improving the development speed and the reliability of the processes.

The QA report application has been improved to show results for more tests in a way that is easier to consume.

A few automated checks have been added to Jenkins to timely detect anomalies across the whole distributions.

* Documentation

The whole flow of releases and parallel supported product lines has been extensively detailed in the Release flow and product lines document: https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/release-flow.html

All the requirements and expectations regarding the licensing of the components shipped in Apertis are now explicitly documented in the Open source License expectations document, to ensure that both maintainers and users have a clear picture of what Apertis is set to achieve, see https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/license-expectations.html and https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/license-exceptions.html

A new document guides maintainers and developers through the new packaging workflow based on GitLab, https://gitlab.apertis.org/infrastructure/ci-package-builder

The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has landed in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/V2019.0/ReleaseNotes

Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!