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New Apertis v2022dev1 development release available
by Emanuele Aina 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2022dev1 development release is now available! Apertis v2022dev1 is the first development release of the Apertis v2022 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2022.0 release in March 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/v2022dev1/releasenotes/ This release ships the linux 5.10 LTS kernel and is the last one in the v2022 flow to be based on Buster. The upcoming v2022dev2 release will be based on Debian Bullseye, so expect some substantial changes. :) Some highlights for this release: * Replace GnuTLS/GMP with GPL-3-free alternative on target images From this releases a selection of packages has been switched from their GnuTLS backend to the OpenSSL one, to be later able to upgrade the GnuTLS stack without being restricted by the GPL-3 provisions. * Technology preview: Licensing reports for images As part of the image building pipeline Apertis now also produces detailed JSON reports listing the licenses covering the binaries shipped on each image. * Infrastructure status page To help developers diagnose these issues and to help administrators to promptly react on unscheduled downtimes some monitoring services have been reviewed and a status page keeping track of the health of all the Apertis services is now available at https://status.apertis.org * Improved SDK persistent disk tests The manual tests excercising the persistent SDK workspaces are now much easier to run and have also been made much more robust. Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2021.0 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

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

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New Apertis v2020.4 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2020.4 stable release is now available! Apertis v2020.4 is the fifth stable release of the Apertis v2020 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2020 release stream until September 2021. 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/v2020.4/releasenotes/ This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster and the latest LTS Linux kernel on the 5.4.x series. Images are available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.4/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2019.6 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2019.6 stable release is now available! Apertis v2019.6 is the seventh stable release of the Apertis v2019 Long Term Support 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://www.apertis.org/release/v2019.6/releasenotes/ This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster. Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.6/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2021.0rc1 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2021.0rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.0rc1/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.0rc1/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2021/v2021.0rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.0rc1/arm64/ Sagar, the test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210321.0115 * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210321.0115/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210321.0115/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210321.0115/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2021.0/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis infrastructure status page
by Peter Senna Tschudin 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Dear Apertis developers, Our Apertis infrastructure now has a status page, see: https://status.apertis.org/ This page is handy when debugging issues you may have when working with our infrastructure. Now you can see in real time if our infrastructure is working properly. We will be very happy to receive feedback about our status page and about Apertis in general. Please write to us! Have a nice weekend, Your Apertis team

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Apertis release candidate v2022dev1.0rc2 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2022dev1.0rc2 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0rc2/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0rc2/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0rc2/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0rc2/arm64/ Compared to v2022dev1.0rc1 this release ships a the latest 5.10 kernel as currently provided by Debian. The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev1/20210319.0016/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev1/20210319.0016/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev1/20210319.0016/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev1/20210319.0016/nfs The full release schedule is described at: https://www.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2022dev1.0rc1 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2022dev1.0rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0rc1/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0rc1/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/v2022dev1.0rc1/arm64/ Compared to v2022dev0 this release ships many small updates and fixes, but more importantly it ships the first set of changes to avoid licensing constraints with the TLS stack in target images, see https://www.apertis.org/concepts/tls-stack/ The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev1/20210314.0016/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev1/20210314.0016/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev1/20210314.0016/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev1/20210314.0016/nfs Accordingly to the release schedule, at this time v2021.0rc1 was expected rather than v2022dev1.0rc1 but due to some technical circumstances v2021 is not ready yet while v2022dev1 is ready, so let's not waste time and shuffle things a bit. The full release schedules are described at: https://www.apertis.org/release/v2021.0/release_schedule/ https://www.apertis.org/release/v2022dev1/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2020.4rc2 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2020.4rc2 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.4rc2/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.4rc2/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2020/v2020.4rc2/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.4rc2/arm64/ Compared to v2020.4rc1 this release fixes a regression in blueman on the SDK images. For more details, see https://gitlab.apertis.org/infrastructure/apertis-image-recipes/-/merge_req… The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20210309.0 * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20210309.0/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20210309.0/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20210309.0/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2020.4/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2019.6rc2 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2019.6rc2 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.6rc2/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.6rc2/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2019/v2019.6rc2/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.6rc2/arm64/ Compared to v2019.6rc1 this release fixes a regression in blueman on the SDK images. For more details, see https://gitlab.apertis.org/infrastructure/apertis-image-recipes/-/merge_req… The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2019/20210309.0 * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2019/20210309.0/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2019/20210309.0/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2019/20210309.0/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2019.6/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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