Releases

Apertis 17.03 Release 17.03 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 17.03 release are available in the 17. [Read More]

The 17.06 preview release cycle starts in March 2017. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2017-03-25 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. 2017-05-16 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]

The 17.03 preview release cycle starts in December 2016. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2016-12-19 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. 2017-02-17 2017-02-24 Soft code freeze: end of feature development for this release From this date onwards, only bug fixes should be accepted. [Read More]

Apertis 16.12 Release 16.12 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (ARMv7 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 customization. Test results of the 16.12 release are available in the 16.12 test report. Release downloads Apertis 16.12 images Intel 64-bit The minimal, target and development images are tested on the reference hardware (MinnowBoard MAX), but they can run on any UEFI-based x86-64 system. [Read More]

The 16.12 release cycle starts in October 2016. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2016-10-03 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2016-11-16 Hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release 2016-11-30 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2016-12-13 EOD RC1 testing 2016-12-14/2016-12-15 16.12 release 2016-12-16 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]

Apertis 16.09 Release 16.09 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (ARMv7 using the hardfloat ABI) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems. Since this release Intel x86 32-bit systems are no longer supported, which includes devices like Zotac Z-BOX. This Apertis release is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS release with several customization. Test results of the 16. [Read More]

The 16.09 release cycle started in July 2016.

Milestone	Date
Start of release cycle	2016-07-22
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period	2016-08-30
Hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release	2016-09-13
Release candidate 1/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date	2016-09-27 EOD
16.09 release	2016-09-30 2016-10-04 Delayed to include fix for CVE-2016-7795

See also

• Previous release schedules and more information about the timeline

Apertis 16.06 Release 16.06 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (ARMv7 using the hardfloat ABI) and Intel x86 (64/32-bit Intel) systems. Features which are planned for Apertis can be found on the Roadmap page. What’s available in the distribution? The software stack in 16.06 is comprised of the following technologies: Linux 4.4 Graphical subsystem based on Wayland 1. [Read More]

The 16.06 release cycle started in March 2016. You can follow the countdown on Phabricator.

Milestone	Date
Start of release cycle	2016-03-19
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period	2016-06-01 2016-06-29
Hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release	2016-06-08 2016-07-06
Release candidate 1/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date	2016-06-21 2016-07-19
16.06 release	2016-06-24 2016-07-22

See also

• Previous release schedules and information

The 16.03 release cycle started in 2016-01. You can follow the countdown on Phabricator.

Event	Date
Soft freeze	2016-02-24
Hard freeze	2016-03-02
Release candidate 1	2016-03-04
16.03 release	2016-03-18
16.03 security updates	2016-07-22