[Devel] New Apertis v2022.0 stable release available

[Emanuele Aina]

Hello everyone,
 I'm glad to announce that the Apertis v2022.0 stable release is now
available!

Apertis v2022.0 is the first stable release of the Apertis v2022
release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2022 release
stream until December 2023.

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/v2022.0/releasenotes/

Some highlights for this release:
* Flatpak as the reference application framework
  The Canterbury/Ribchester application framework has now been fully
  replaced by Flatpak and a reference org.apertis runtime is also
  available for application authors to distribute their Apertis-based
  applications on top of any Flatpak-supporting system.

* AGL-compositor + Maynard as the reference graphical shell
  A modern, extensible Wayland compositor and a new reference shell
  have now replaced the Mildenhall HMI as the default graphical
  interface on the HMI images,

* PipeWire+WirePlumber as the reference audio manager
  From this release the Pipewire multimedia manager and the WirePlumber
  policy manager replace PulseAudio as the default audio manager,
  bringing more efficiency, flexibility, and better integration in
  container-based application frameworks like Flatpak.
  A compatibility layer ensures that applications do not need any
  change to use the new audio manager.

* Modernization of GPL-3-free replacements
  Compliance to the licensing expectations is now enforced without
  outdated forks affecting the TLS stack, GnuPG or GNU Coreutils.  

* WPA3 support in ConnMan
  Apertis now ships support for WPA3-SAE authentication and
  WPA3-Personal transition mode in ConnMan and wpa_supplicant.

* Licensing reports
  As part of the image building pipeline Apertis now also produces
  detailed reports listing the licenses covering the binaries shipped
  on each image.

* Fixed Function and HMI images to replace minimal and target
  To give a clearer purpose to each image type and provide a better
  guide to developers looking at the reference images for their product
  recipes, the HMI and FixedFunction images replace the target and
  minimal image types.

* Improved Raspberry Pi support
  The Raspberry Pi support has improved including:
  * Support for RPi 400 model.
  * Graphical interface now booting without input devices attached.
  * Fixed USB support.
  * Documentation to bring up Raspberry Pi 4.

* iMX8MN Variscite Symphony and BSH SMM S2 PRO board support
  Designed by BSH, the SystemMaster S2 Pro is an add-on board which 
  provides input and output interfaces to a dedicated carrier board.
  Support has also been added for the iMX8MN Variscite Symphony board.

* OVA VirtualBox SDK appliance
  To make the initial setup easier for users of the Apertis SDK with 
  VirtualBox, a full OVA appliance file is provided to let developers
  create their Apertis virtual machine in Virtualbox with just a
  double click.

Images are available for download at
https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022/v2022.0/

Thanks to everyone who contributed!

-- 
Emanuele Aina
www.collabora.com