Hello everyone,

Yesterday I sent an E-mail to the testing mailing list as a small step in my quest on learning how to send proper release emails. This one should be better.

The new Apertis v2020.0 stable release is now available!

Apertis v2020.0 is the first stable release of the LTS Apertis v2020. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2020 release stream until September 2021. Release notes are available at: https://www.apertis.org/release/v2020.0/releasenotes/

For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods: https://designs.apertis.org/v2020/release-flow.html

Images are already available for download: https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.0/

Some highlights for this release:

* Target images for the i.MX6 SabreLite boards with graphics support using the mainline stack and the open source etnaviv driver are now available.

* The OSTree updates in this release are now signed to prove their source is trusted.

* Linux kernel 5.4

* This release introduces initial support for pstore in the U-Boot bootloader and the Linux kernel to debug hard crashes by providing a way to store logs for postmortem analysis.

* A proof-of-concept hawkBit server instance has been deployed for Apertis and the image building pipelines now automatically push updates to it as OSTree static bundles.

* GitLab-to-OBS workflow enhancements

* When pulling updates from upstream distributions like Debian, the package sources are now automatically scanned to identify code released under problematic licenses as early as possible.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to make Apertis awesome!

Peter