This section contains the release notes and schedules for all current and previous releases of Apertis. Please refer to the release schedule and release flow for more information.

Next planned releases:

Milestone v2024.6 v2025.2 v2026dev3
Start of Release Cycle 2025-07-01 2025-07-01 2025-07-01
Soft Feature Freeze 2025-07-30 2025-08-06 2025-08-13
Hard Feature Freeze / Soft Code Freeze 2025-08-06 2025-08-13 2025-08-20
Release Candidate (RC1) / Hard Code Freeze 2025-08-13 2025-08-20 2025-08-27
Release 2025-08-28 2025-09-04 2025-09-11

16.03 ReleaseNotes

Posted on 2016-04-05

Apertis 16.03 Release 16.03 is the current stable development distribution 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 16.03 is comprised of the following technologies: Linux kernel 4.2 Graphical subsystem based on X. [Read More]

15.12 ReleaseNotes

Posted on 2015-12-18

Apertis 15.12 Release 15.12 is the current stable development distribution 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 15.12 is comprised of the following technologies: Linux 4.2 Graphical subsystem based on X. [Read More]

15.09 ReleaseNotes

Posted on 2015-12-02

Apertis 15.09 Release 15.09 is the current development distribution of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (ARMv7 using the hardfloat API) 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 15.09 is comprised of the following technologies: Linux 3.19 Graphical subsystem based on X. [Read More]

14.12 ReleaseNotes

Posted on 2015-11-30

Secure Automotive Cloud 14.12 Release 14.12 is the current development distribution of Secure Automotive Cloud (SAC), a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (ARMv7 using the hardfloat API) and Intel i386 (32-bit Intel) systems. Features planned for SAC can be found in the Roadmap page. What’s available in the distribution? The software stack in 14.12 is comprised of the following technologies: Linux 3.16 Graphical subsystem based on Xorg X server 1. [Read More]

15.03 ReleaseNotes

Posted on 2015-11-30

Secure Automotive Cloud 15.03 Release 15.03 is the current development distribution of Secure Automotive Cloud (SAC), a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (ARMv7 using the hardfloat API) and Intel x86 (64/32-bit Intel) systems. Features planned for SAC can be found in the Roadmap page. What’s available in the distribution? The software stack in 15.03 is comprised of the following technologies: Linux 3.16 Graphical subsystem based on Xorg X server 1. [Read More]

15.06 ReleaseNotes

Posted on 2015-09-21

Apertis 15.06 Release 15.06 is the current development distribution of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (ARMv7 using the hardfloat API) and Intel x86 (64/32-bit Intel) systems. Features planned for Apertis can be found in the Roadmap page. What’s available in the distribution? The software stack in 15.06 is comprised of the following technologies: Linux 3.19 Graphical subsystem based on Xorg X server 1. [Read More]