[Devel] New Apertis v2019.0 stable release available

[Emanuele Aina]

Hello everyone,
 the new Apertis v2019.0 stable release is now available!

Apertis v2019.0 is the first Long Term Support stable release of the
Apertis v2019 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintain the v2019
release stream until June 2021.

For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods,
see https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/release-flow.html

You can find the full release notes at
https://wiki.apertis.org/V2019.0/ReleaseNotes


Some highlights from this release:

* Stabilization

Improvements in our workflows allowed us to import all the latest
updates and security fixes from Debian with increased reliability,
while continuously testing the resulting images on our hardware lab,
ensuring that the first Apertis LTS release matches the highest
standard of quality.

* Workflows and Quality Assurance

The GitLab-based packaging workflow has been improved to help us keep
the maintenance effort needed to develop a whole distribution under
control, improving the development speed and the reliability of the
processes.

The QA report application has been improved to show results for more
tests in a way that is easier to consume.

A few automated checks have been added to Jenkins to timely detect
anomalies across the whole distributions.

* Documentation

The whole flow of releases and parallel supported product lines has
been extensively detailed in the Release flow and product lines
document: https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/release-flow.html

All the requirements and expectations regarding the licensing of the
components shipped in Apertis are now explicitly documented in the Open
source License expectations document, to ensure that both maintainers
and users have a clear picture of what Apertis is set to achieve,
see https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/license-expectations.html and 
https://designs.apertis.org/v2019/license-exceptions.html

A new document guides maintainers and developers through the new
packaging workflow based on GitLab, 
https://gitlab.apertis.org/infrastructure/ci-package-builder



The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has
landed in this release:
https://wiki.apertis.org/V2019.0/ReleaseNotes


Images are already available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

-- 
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com