[Devel] New Apertis v2021.0 stable release available

[Emanuele Aina]

Hello everyone,
 the new Apertis v2021.0 stable release is now available!

Apertis v2021.0 is the first stable release of the Apertis v2021
release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2021 release
stream until December 2022.

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/v2021.0/releasenotes/


Some highlights for this release:

 * Resilient upgrades with atomic rollback on Renesas R-Car
   The OSTree-based update manager is now fully supported on Renesas R-
   Car boards in addition to the i.MX6 SABRE Lite boards already
   supported in previous releases.
   
 * Enhanced offline updates signatures and encryption
   The OSTree static delta bundle signature mechanism used for offline
   updates now also cover the bundle metadata.
   In addition, offline update bundles can now be encrypted to make
   their contents inaccessible from unauthorized parties.
   
 * New Rhosydd data model and API based on the W3C VISS specification
   Rhosydd, the vehicle device daemon implementing the sensors and
   actuators API has been rebased to the data model from the latest W3C
   specification.
   
 * Technology preview: 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards support
   Apertis now ships rpi64 images for the widely available 64-bit
   Raspberry Pi boards to make experimenting on real Arm hardware as
   accessible as possible.
   
 * Technology preview: Maynard and the AGL compositor
   A modern, extensible Wayland compositor and a new reference shell
   are available in this release, albeit not being the default yet.
   
 * Technology preview: Secure boot on i.MX6 SABRE Lite
   A first iteration of trusted boot on the i.MX6 SABRE Lite boards is
   now part of the minimal and target ARM 32-bit OSTree images.
   
 * GitLab CI/CD image building pipelines
   From this release Apertis has fully switched to GitLab CI/CD to
   build the release artifacts, and Jenkins is no longer supported.
   
 * Long term reproducibility of image builds
   The GitLab CI/CD pipelines used to build the Apertis v2021 release
   make reproducing past builds easily and reliably, as described in
   the Long term reproducibility document.
   
 * Flatpak runtime and application build pipeline
   To make the adoption of Flatpak easier, Apertis provides a reference
   pipeline to build runtimes and application based on packages in the
   Apertis repository.


Images and other artifacts are available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

-- 
Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com