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 | v2024.5 | v2025.1 | v2026dev2 |
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Start of Release Cycle | 2025-04-01 | 2025-04-01 | 2025-04-01 |
Soft Feature Freeze | 2025-04-30 | 2025-05-07 | 2025-05-14 |
Hard Feature Freeze / Soft Code Freeze | 2025-05-07 | 2025-05-14 | 2025-05-21 |
Release Candidate (RC1) / Hard Code Freeze | 2025-05-14 | 2025-05-21 | 2025-05-28 |
Release | 2025-05-29 | 2025-06-05 | 2025-06-12 |
The v2019.5 release cycle started in September 2020.
Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-09-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2020-11-12 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2020-11-16 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2020-11-19 RC testing 2020-11-20..26 v2019.5 release 2020-11-27 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.
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V2021dev2 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 v2021dev2 is the third 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.
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V2020.1 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 v2020.1 is the second 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.
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v2020.2 Release Schedule
The v2020.2 release cycle started in July 2020.
Milestone | Date |
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Start of release cycle | 2020-07-01 |
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period | 2020-08-25 |
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed | 2020-09-01 |
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date | 2020-09-08 |
RC testing | 2020-09-09..15 |
v2020.1 release | 2020-09-16 |
See also
- Previous release schedules and more information about the timeline
V2021dev3 Release Schedule
The v2021dev3 release cycle started in July 2020.
Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-07-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2020-09-02 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2020-09-09 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2020-09-16 RC testing 2020-09-17..23 v2021dev3 release 2020-09-24 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.
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v2019.3 ReleaseNotes
Apertis v2019.3 Release 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 v2019.3 is the fourth 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.
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V2019.3 Release schedule
The v2019.3 release cycle started in April 2020.
Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2020-05-13 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2020-05-20 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2020-05-26 RC testing 2020-05-27..06-03 v2019.3 release 2020-06-04 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.
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v2019.4 Release schedule
The v2019.4 release cycle started in July 2020.
Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-07-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2020-08-13 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2020-08-20 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2020-08-26 RC testing 2020-08-27..09-02 v2019.4 release 2020-09-03 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.
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v2020.1 Release Schedule
The v2020.1 release cycle started in April 2020.
Milestone | Date |
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Start of release cycle | 2020-04-01 |
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period | 2020-05-25 |
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed | 2020-06-01 |
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date | 2020-06-08 |
RC testing | 2020-06-09..15 |
v2020.1 release | 2020-06-16 |
See also
- Previous release schedules and more information about the timeline
V2021dev2 Release Schedule
The v2021dev2 release cycle started in April 2020.
Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2020-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2020-06-02 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2020-06-09 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2020-06-16 RC testing 2020-06-17..28 v2021dev2 release 2020-06-29 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.
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