Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2020pre.0 preview release is now available!

No major changes are expected before the stable v2020.0 release happens next quarter, so people waiting for it can start experimenting with the current preview release.

You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/V2020pre/ReleaseNotes

Some highlights from this release:

* Linux kernel 5.4

Apertis v2020pre.0 ships with the latest LTS kernel version, released upstream just a bit more than two weeks ago.

* Persistent kernel panic storage

Support for the pstore subsystem has been enabled in the kernel and added to the U-Boot bootloader.

* hawkBit integration proof-of-concept

A demonstration setup using hawkBit to deploy updates is now available.

* Early license scans with GitLab CI

The packaging pipeline has been extended to check for inappropriate licenses when importing sources from Debian.

* Whole-archive package installability checks

Automated tests now check that the relevant dependencies in the archive can be satisfied.

The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has landed in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/V2020pre/ReleaseNotes

Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020pre/v2020pre.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!