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
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

16.09 Release schedule

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

16.06 ReleaseNotes

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]

16.06 Release schedule

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

16.03 ReleaseNotes

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

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

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

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

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

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]