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 v2024.7 v2025.3 v2026pre v2027dev0
Start of Release Cycle 2025-10-01 2025-10-01 2025-10-01 2025-10-01
Soft Feature Freeze 2025-10-22 2025-10-29 2025-11-05 2025-11-12
Hard Feature Freeze / Soft Code Freeze 2025-10-29 2025-11-05 2025-11-12 2025-11-19
Release Candidate (RC1) / Hard Code Freeze 2025-11-05 2025-11-12 2025-11-19 2025-11-26
Release 2025-11-20 2025-11-27 2025-12-04 2025-12-11

v2026dev3 Release Notes

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 v2026dev3 is the fourth 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 the first based on Debian Trixie and on top of it provides several customizations. [Read More]

v2026pre Release schedule

The v2026pre release cycle is scheduled to start in October 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-10-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-11-05 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-11-12 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-11-19 RC testing 2025-11-20..12-03 v2026pre release 2025-12-04 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]

v2027 stream

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v2027dev0 Release schedule

The v2027dev0 release cycle is scheduled to start in October 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-10-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-11-12 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-11-19 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-11-26 RC testing 2025-11-27..12-10 v2027dev0 release 2025-12-11 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]

v2025.2 Release Notes

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 v2025.2 is the third 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]

v2025.3 Release schedule

The v2025.3 release cycle is scheduled to start in October 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-10-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-10-22 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-10-29 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-11-05 RC testing 2025-11-06..11-19 v2025.3 release 2025-11-20 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]

v2024.7 Release schedule

The v2024.7 release cycle is scheduled to start in October 2025. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2025-10-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-10-22 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-10-29 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-11-05 RC testing 2025-11-06..11-19 v2024.7 release 2025-11-20 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]

v2026dev2 Release Notes

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 v2026dev2 is the third 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 the first based on Debian Trixie and on top of it provides several customizations. [Read More]

v2026dev3 Release schedule

The v2026dev3 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 2025-08-13 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-08-20 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-08-27 RC testing 2025-08-28..09-10 v2026dev3 release 2025-09-11 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]

v2025.1 Release Notes

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 v2025.1 is the second 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]