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New Apertis v2023dev1 development release available
by Walter Lozano 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that the new Apertis v2023dev1 development release is now available! Apertis v2023dev1 is the second development release of the Apertis v2023 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2023.0 release in March 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/v2023dev1/releasenotes/ This release ships the linux 5.15 LTS kernel and it is based on Bullseye. Some highlights for this release: * Completion of the GPL-3-free modernization This release address the remaining issues caused by the use of outdated packages to avoid GPL-3 code. Now Apertis ships rust-findutils as a replacement for GNU findutils and libedit as a replacement for libreadline as described in [1]. * Build-test packages on OBS before merging The new CI for package build now allows to test proposed merge requests to confirm that packages are built successfully in OBS before merging them, improving the development experience. Images already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2023dev1/v2023dev1.0/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! Walter [1] https://www.apertis.org/concepts/gpl3_free_deltas/ -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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New Apertis v2022.0 stable release available
by Emanuele Aina 19 Mar '22

19 Mar '22

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

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Apertis release candidate v2023dev1.0rc1 available for testing
by Emanuele Aina 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that Apertis v2023dev1.0rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2023dev1/v2023dev1.0rc1/amd64/ Arm32 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2023dev1/v2023dev1.0rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2023dev1/v2023dev1.0rc1/arm64/ This is the second development release for v2023, based on Debian Bullseye. Compared to v2023dev1.0 it contains: * Updates from Debian Bullseye * the latest Linux v5.15 LTS kernel * rust-findutils replacing the outdated GPLv2 findutils fork * libeditline replacing the outdated GPLv2 readline5 fork The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2023dev1/20220316.0416/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2023dev1/20220316.0416/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2023dev1/20220316.0416/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2023dev1/20220316.0416/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2023dev1/release_schedule/ Thanks, -- Emanuele Aina www.collabora.com

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New Apertis v2021.4 stable release available
by Walter Lozano 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that Apertis v2021.4 stable release is now available! Apertis v2021.4 is the fifth 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/v2021.4/releasenotes/ Images are available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.4/ Thanks to everyone who contributed! Walter -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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Apertis release candidate v2022.0rc1 available for testing
by Walter Lozano 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that Apertis v2022.0rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022/v2022.0rc1/amd64/ Arm32 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022/v2022.0rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2022/v2022.0rc1/arm64/ This is the first stable release based on Debian Bullseye. Compared to v2022pre it contains: * Updates from Debian Bullseye * Latest rust-coreutils with reduced footprint * Improve support for Flatpak apps in agl-compositor * Several fixes in Apertis Update Manager The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022/20220309.0316/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022/20220309.0316/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022/20220309.0316/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2022/20220309.0316/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2022.0/release_schedule/ Thanks, -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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Hard feature freeze for v2023dev1
by Walter Lozano 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hi all, I'm glad to announce that we have entered Hard Feature Freeze for v2023dev1 [1]. From this moment only bug fixes will be accepted for this release cycle. Other type of changes will be postponed to v2023dev2. Thanks to everyone who contributed! Walter [1] https://www.apertis.org/release/v2023dev1/release_schedule/ -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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Feature freeze for v2023dev1
by Walter Lozano 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Hi all, I'm glad to announce that we have entered Feature Freeze for v2023dev1 [1]. From this moment no additional features will be accepted for this release cycle. New features will be postponed to v2023dev2. Thanks to everyone who contributed! Walter [1] https://www.apertis.org/release/v2023dev1/release_schedule/ -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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Hard feature freeze for v2022.0
by Walter Lozano 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Hi all, I'm glad to announce that we have entered Hard Feature Freeze for v2022.0 [1]. From this moment only bug fixes will be accepted for this release cycle. Other type of changes will be postponed to v2022.1. Thanks to everyone who contributed! Walter [1] https://www.apertis.org/release/v2022.0/release_schedule/ -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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Apertis release candidate v2021.4rc1 available for testing
by Walter Lozano 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce that Apertis v2021.4rc1 images for all the supported platforms have been published: AMD64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.4rc1/amd64/ Arm32 public https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.4rc1/armhf/ Arm32 internal https://images.apertis.org/internal/release/v2021/v2021.4rc1/armhf/ Arm64 https://images.apertis.org/release/v2021/v2021.4rc1/arm64/ Compared to v2021.3 this release contains security updates from Debian Buster. The test reports are below: * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20220302.1238/apt * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20220302.1238/ostree * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20220302.1238/lxc * https://lavaphabbridge.apertis.org/report/v2021/20220302.1238/nfs The full release schedule is described at https://www.apertis.org/release/v2021.4/release_schedule/ Thanks, Walter -- Walter Lozano Collabora Ltd.

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