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New Apertis v2022dev2 development release available
by Emanuele Aina 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2022dev2 development release is now available! Apertis v2022dev2 is the second 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/v2022dev2/releasenotes/ This release ships the linux 5.10 LTS kernel and is the first one to be based on Bullseye. Some highlights for this release: * Rebase to Debian Bullseye While Bullseye has not been released yet, this release is already based on it, bringing all kind of goodies across the whole stack. * Maynard shell and AGL compositor The Maynard shell built on top of the libweston-based AGL compositor has now replaced the legacy Mildenhall compositor and launcher. * WPA3 support in ConnMan After landing upstream the implementation of WPA3-SAE authentication using wpa_supplicant, it is now available in Apertis * Switch to PipeWire+WirePlumber by default The Pipewire multimedia manager and the WirePlumber policy manager replace PulseAudio as the default audio manager, granting more efficiency and flexibility, better integration with Flatpak, and more powerful policy mechanisms. * Updated licensing-compliant TLS stack The TLS stack has been updated to the latest upstream versions, using OpenSSL by default and limiting GnuTLS to GPL-2-compatible programs. * OVA VirtualBox appliance OVA appliances make the initial setup in VirtualBox as frictionless as possible. Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev2/v2022dev2.0/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2021.1 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2021.1 stable release is now available! Apertis v2021.1 is the second 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/v2021.1/releasenotes/ This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster and the latest LTS Linux kernel on the 5.10.x series. In addition, the GCC compiler now builds Position Independent Executables (PIE) by default: this aligns Apertis to what Debian has already been doing for a while so it is a pretty safe change, but it still has the potential to surface other bugs. A whole-archive rebuild is planned for the next release to ensure all binary packages reflect the new default. Images are available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.1/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2021.1rc2 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2021.1rc2 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.1rc2/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.1rc2/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2021/v2021.1rc2/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.1rc2/arm64/ Compared to v2021.1rc1 this release fixes a crash in the Frampton (a.k.a. Songs) and Eye (a.k.a. Videos) applications shipped as part of the Mildenhall framework. The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210624.1230/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210624.1230/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210624.1230/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210624.1230/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2021.1/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2020.5 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2020.5 stable release is now available! Apertis v2020.5 is the sixth 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/v2020.5/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/v2020.5/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2022dev2.0rc1 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2022dev2.0rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev2/v2022dev2.0rc1/amd64/ Arm32 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev2/v2022dev2.0rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022dev2/v2022dev2.0rc1/arm64/ This is the first development release based on Debian Bullseye. As such, the QA requirements have been limited to basic features, focusing on ensuring full functionality in the next quarter. The goals for this release are: 1. minimal image boot and provide a textual prompt 2. target image show the Maynard shell at boot 3. sdk images provide an XFCE user session In addition to the move to Bullseye, this release introduces other major changes: 1. the default shell for the target image is now Maynard, based on the AGL compositor framework, in turn based on libweston 2. the default audio manager is PipeWire, combined with the WirePlumber audio policy manager 3. the internal images have been discontinued The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev2/20210618.0018/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev2/20210618.0018/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev2/20210618.0018/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022dev2/20210618.0018/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2022dev2/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2021.1rc1 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2021.1rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.1rc1/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.1rc1/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2021/v2021.1rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.1rc1/arm64/ Compared to v2021.0 this release contains security updates from Debian Buster and from Debian Bullseye for the kernel. The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210612.0115/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210612.0115/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210612.0115/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20210612.0115/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2021.1/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2019.7 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Hello everyone, the new Apertis v2019.7 stable release is now available! Apertis v2019.7 is the eighth stable release of the Apertis v2019 Long Term Support release flow. This is the *last* release in the v2019 release stream, which has now reached its end of support and will not receive any further update. Users are strongly recommended to update to the v2020 release stream or newer. For more details about the Apertis release flows and support periods, see https://www.apertis.org/policies/release-flow/ You can find the full release notes at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2019.7/releasenotes/ This release only ships the security updates from Debian Buster. Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2019/v2019.7/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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Apertis release candidate v2020.5rc1 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hello everyone, the Apertis v2020.5rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.5rc1/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.5rc1/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2020/v2020.5rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2020/v2020.5rc1/arm64/ Compared to v2020.4 this release contains security updates from Debian Buster. The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20210603.0/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20210603.0/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20210603.0/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2020/20210603.0/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2020.5/release_schedule/ Thanks, Emanuele -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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