Hello everyone,  the new Apertis 16.12 stable release is now available!

You can find the full release notes at  https://wiki.apertis.org/16.12/ReleaseNotes

Some highlights from this release:

* Stable application bundle layout Version 1.0.0 of the Application Bundle Specification [bundle-spec] has been published, which means that the layout of bundles is now stable and that bundles that adhere to it are guaranteed to be installable on any future release of Apertis with no changes.

* Web runtime The first implementation of the Web runtime specification [web-runtime] has landed in Apertis 16.12 as a technology preview. Application bundles can use the /usr/bin/bredon-0-launcher shared launcher to exclusively rely on HTML/JS/CSS for their needs while still being able to access all the native GObject-based APIs provides by Apertis through the GObject-Introspection bindings provided by Seed.

* Application store client The old application store client implementation (Frome) has been refreshed to take advantage of the recent development in the finalized bundle specification, in the application manager (Canterbury) and in the application mounter (Ribchester), while preserving the same D-Bus API for applications.

[bundle-spec] https://appdev.apertis.org/documentation/bundle-spec.html [web-runtime] https://docs.apertis.org/latest/web-runtime.html

The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has been poured in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/16.12/ReleaseNotes

Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/16.12/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!