Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2026dev2 development release is now available!

Apertis v2026dev2 is the third development release of the Apertis v2026 stable release flow and the first one based on Debian Trixie. It will lead Apertis v2026.0 release in March 2026.

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/v2026dev2/releasenotes/

This release ships the Linux 6.12 kernel and is based on Debian Trixie but later releases in the v2026 channel will be tracking newer kernel versions up to the next LTS.

As this is the first 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 2.84.2-1 - Glibc 2.41-8 - Systemd 257.6-1 - OpenSSL 3.5.0-2 - GNU TLS 3.8.9-2 - Nginx 1.26.3-3 - Gstreamer 1.26.1-1 - Pipewire 1.4.2-1

Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2026dev2/v2026dev2.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Walter