Releases

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 v2020.3 is the fourth stable release of the Apertis v2020 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2020 release stream until September 2021. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Buster with several customisations and the Linux kernel 5. [Read More]

The v2020.4 release cycle started in December 2020. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-12-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2021-03-05 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2021-02-24 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2021-03-03 RC testing 2021-03-04..03-10 v2020.4 release 2021-03-11 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]

The v2019.6 release cycle started in December 2020. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-12-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2021-01-29 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2021-02-17 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2021-02-24 RC testing 2021-02-25..03-03 v2019.6 release 2021-03-04 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]

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 v2019.5 is the sixth stable release of the Apertis v2019 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2019 release stream until June 2021. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Buster with several customisations and the Linux kernel 4. [Read More]

The v2022dev0 release cycle started in October 2020. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-10-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2020-11-25 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2020-12-02 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2020-12-09 RC testing 2020-12-10..16 v2022dev0 release 2020-12-17 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 v2021dev3 is the fourth and last development release of the Apertis v2021 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2021.0 release in March 2021. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Buster with several customisations. [Read More]

The v2021pre release cycle started in October 2020. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-10-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2020-11-17 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2020-11-23 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2020-11-02 RC testing 2020-12-03..09 v2021pre release 2020-12-10 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 v2020.2 is the third stable release of the Apertis v2020 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2020 release stream until September 2021. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Buster with several customisations. [Read More]

The v2020.3 release cycle started in October 2020.

Milestone	Date
Start of release cycle	2020-10-01
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period	2020-11-13
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed	2020-11-20
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date	2020-11-26
RC testing	2020-11-27..12-02
v2020.3 release	2020-12-03

See also

• Previous release schedules and more information about the timeline

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 v2019.4 is the fifth stable release of the Apertis v2019 release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2019 release stream until June 2021. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Buster with several customisations. [Read More]