Releases

Apertis 18.06 Release 18.06 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu 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. This Apertis release is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS release with several customizations. Test results of the 18.06 release are available in the 18.06 test report. [Read More]

The 18.06 release cycle starts in April 2018. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2018-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2018-05-18 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2018-06-08 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2018-06-15 EOD RC1 testing 2018-06-15/2018-06-24 18.06 release 2018-06-25 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 18.03 Release 18.03 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both in the 32bit ARMv7 version using the hardfloat ABI and in the 64-bit ARMv8 version) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. This Apertis release is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS release with several customization. Test results of the 18.03 release are available in the 18. [Read More]

Apertis 17.12.1 Release 17.12.1 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both in the 32bit ARMv7 version using the hardfloat ABI and in the 64-bit ARMv8 version) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. This Apertis release is a minor update over Apertis 17.12.0, and is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS release with several customization. [Read More]

The 18.03 release cycle starts in January 2018. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2018-01-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2018-02-16 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2018-03-02 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2018-03-09 EOD RC1 testing 2018-03-12/2018-03-13 18.03 release 2018-03-19 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 17.12 Release 17.12 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both in the 32bit ARMv7 version using the hardfloat ABI and in the 64-bit ARMv8 version) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. This Apertis release is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS release with several customization. Test results of the 17.09 release are available in the 17. [Read More]

Apertis 17.09 Release 17.09 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both in the 32bit ARMv7 version using the hardfloat ABI and in the 64-bit ARMv8 version) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. This Apertis release is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS release with several customization. Test results of the 17.09 release are available in the 17. [Read More]

The 17.12 release cycle starts in October 2017. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2017-10-02 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2017-11-17 Hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release 2017-11-30 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2017-12-13 EOD RC1 testing 2017-12-14/2017-12-15 17.12 release 2017-12-18 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 17.06 Release 17.06 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both in the 32bit ARMv7 version using the hardfloat ABI and in the 64-bit ARMv8 version) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. This Apertis release is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS release with several customization. Test results of the 17.06 release are available in the 17. [Read More]

The 17.09 preview release cycle starts in June 2017. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2017-06-29 Feature proposal freeze: end of feature proposal and review period New features must be proposed, reviewed and accepted by this date. Any features which are not accepted by this date will need to be proposed for a future release. 2017-08-16 Soft code freeze: end of feature development for this release From this date onwards, only bug fixes will be accepted into the image. [Read More]