Releases

The v2021.5 release cycle started in April 2022. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2022-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2022-05-11 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2022-05-18 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2022-05-25 RC testing 2022-05-26..06-08 v2021.5 release 2022-06-09 If the release candidate 1 does not successfully pass all required tests, then the issues will be fixed and a new release candidate will be re-tested. [Read More]

Apertis is a Debian derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both the 32bit ARMv7 and 64-bit ARMv8 versions using the hardfloat ABI) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. Apertis v2023dev0 is the first development of the Apertis v2023 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2023.0 release in March 2023. This Apertis release is based on Debian Bullseye. It currently ships with the Linux kernel 5. [Read More]

The v2022.0 release cycle started in January 2022. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2022-01-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2022-02-23 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2022-03-02 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2022-03-09 RC testing 2022-03-10..03-16 v2022.0 release 2022-03-17 If the release candidate 1 does not successfully pass all required tests, then the issues will be fixed and a new release candidate will be re-tested. [Read More]

Apertis is a Debian derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both the 32bit ARMv7 and 64-bit ARMv8 versions using the hardfloat ABI) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. Apertis v2021.3 is the fourth stable release of the Apertis v2021 stable release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2021 release stream up to the end of 2022. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Buster with several customisations and the Linux kernel 5. [Read More]

The v2021.4 release cycle started in January 2022. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2022-01-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2022-02-16 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2022-02-23 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2022-03-02 RC testing 2022-03-03..03-09 v2021.4 release 2022-03-10 If the release candidate 1 does not successfully pass all required tests, then the issues will be fixed and a new release candidate will be re-tested. [Read More]

Apertis is a Debian derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both the 32bit ARMv7 and 64-bit ARMv8 versions using the hardfloat ABI) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. Apertis v2020.7 is the eighth stable release of the Apertis v2020 release flow. This is the last release in the v2020 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 v2021 release stream or newer. [Read More]

The v2023dev0 release cycle started in October 2021. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2021-10-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2021-11-24 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2021-12-01 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2021-12-08 RC testing 2021-12-09..12-15 v2023dev0 release 2021-12-16 If the release candidate 1 does not successfully pass all required tests, then the issues will be fixed and a new release candidate will be re-tested. [Read More]

The v2023dev1 release cycle started in January 2022. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2022-01-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2022-03-02 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2022-03-09 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2022-03-16 RC testing 2022-03-17..03-23 v2023dev1 release 2022-03-24 If the release candidate 1 does not successfully pass all required tests, then the issues will be fixed and a new release candidate will be re-tested. [Read More]

Apertis is a Debian derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both the 32bit ARMv7 and 64-bit ARMv8 versions using the hardfloat ABI) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. Apertis v2022dev3 is the third development release of the Apertis v2022 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2022.0 release in March 2022. This Apertis release is based on Debian Bullseye. It currently ships with the Linux kernel 5. [Read More]

Apertis is a Debian derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both the 32bit ARMv7 and 64-bit ARMv8 versions using the hardfloat ABI) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. Apertis v2022pre is the preview release of the Apertis v2022 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2022.0 release in March 2022. This Apertis release is based on Debian Bullseye. It currently ships with the Linux kernel 5. [Read More]