Hello everyone,

I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2026dev1 release is now available!

Apertis v2026dev1 is the second development release of the Apertis v2026 stable release flow, which will lead to Apertis v2026.0 release in March 2026.

This release is based on Debian Bookworm and ships the latest Linux kernel in the 6.12.x series. Later releases in the v2026 channel will be tracking Debian Trixie and newer kernel versions.

As a summary of the features introduced during the development of v2026dev1 and are the starting point of v2026dev0: - Folding and branching pipeline improvements - Rust and Go packages moved to target

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/v2026dev1/releasenotes/

Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2026dev1/v2026dev1.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Walter