Hello everyone, the new Apertis 17.03 stable release is now available!

You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/17.03/ReleaseNotes

Some highlights from this release:

* ARM64 support

All the packages in the archive have been rebuilt for the 64bit version of the ARM instruction set. No full images are available at the moment, as no reference hardware has been selected.

* Application framework on headless setups

Minimal images without HMI now ship the application framework with the Canterbury application manager taking care of running agents.

* Mildenhall UI toolkit

The major pain points about using the Mindelhall UI toolkit from third-party application have been addressed, making it more reliable and maintainable.

* Metadata-based permissions design

A first set of use-cases have been collected to provide the foundation for designing a metadata-base permissions system which would save application authors from having to learn the fine details of the AppArmor rules language.

* Drop unused components

A few old, no longer used components have been dropped to be able to focus on our core values. Some have been deprecated, with the intent of dropping them once all the depending applications and services have been ported to the recommended solutions.

The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has been poured in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/17.03/ReleaseNotes

Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/17.03/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!