Releases

The v2025.2 release cycle is scheduled to start in January 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-07-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-08-06 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-08-13 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-08-20 RC testing 2025-08-21..09-03 v2025.2 release 2025-09-04 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 v2024.6 release cycle is scheduled to start in July 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-07-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-07-30 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-08-06 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-08-13 RC testing 2025-08-14..08-27 v2024.6 release 2025-08-28 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 v2026dev1 is the second development release of the Apertis v2026 stable release flow that will lead to the Apertis v2026.0 release in March 2026. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Bookworm along with several customizations and it ships the latest Linux kernel 6. [Read More]

The v2026dev2 release cycle is scheduled to start in April 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-05-14 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-05-21 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-05-28 RC testing 2025-05-29..06-11 v2026dev2 release 2025-06-12 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 v2025.0 is the first stable release of the Apertis v2025 stable release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2025 release stream up to the end of 2026. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Bookworm along with several customizations and it ships the latest Linux LTS kernel 6. [Read More]

The v2025.1 release cycle is scheduled to start in January 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-05-07 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-05-14 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-05-21 RC testing 2025-05-22..06-04 v2025.1 release 2025-06-05 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 v2024.5 release cycle is scheduled to start in April 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-04-30 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-05-07 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-05-14 RC testing 2025-05-15..05-28 v2024.5 release 2025-05-29 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 v2026dev0 is the first development release of the Apertis v2026 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2026.0 release in March 2026. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Bookworm along with several customizations and it ships the latest Linux kernel 6. [Read More]

The v2026dev1 release cycle is scheduled to start in January 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-01-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-02-12 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-02-19 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-02-26 RC testing 2025-02-27..03-12 v2026dev1 release 2025-03-13 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 v2025.0 release cycle is scheduled to start in January 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-01-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-02-05 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-02-12 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-02-19 RC testing 2025-02-20..03-05 v2025.0 release 2025-03-06 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]