[Devel] New Apertis 17.03 stable release available

Tracey Green tracey.green at collabora.co.uk
Fri Mar 24 19:13:01 GMT 2017


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!


-- 
Kind Regards

Tracey Green

Project Manager,
Collabora Ltd
+44 1223 362967
http://www.collabora.co.uk



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