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 v2023.5 is the sixth stable release of the Apertis v2023 stable release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2023 release stream up to the end of 2024. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Bullseye with several customizations and the Linux kernel 6. [Read More]

The v2023.6 release cycle is scheduled to start in July 2024. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2024-07-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2024-07-31 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2024-08-07 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2024-08-14 RC testing 2024-08-15..8-28 v2023.5 release 2024-08-29 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. [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 v2025dev1 is the second development release of the Apertis v2025 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2025.0 release in March 2025. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Bookworm along with several customizations and it ships the latest Linux kernel 6. [Read More]

The v2025dev2 release cycle is scheduled to start in April 2024. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2024-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2024-05-15 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2024-05-22 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2024-05-29 RC testing 2024-05-30..06-12 v2025dev2 release 2024-06-13 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 v2024.0 is the first stable release of the Apertis v2024 stable release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2024 release stream up to the end of 2025. This is the first Apertis release that is built on top of Debian Bookworm along with several customizations and it ships the latest Linux LTS kernel 6. [Read More]

The v2024.1 release cycle is scheduled to start in October 2023. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2024-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2024-05-08 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2024-05-15 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2024-05-22 RC testing 2024-05-23..06-05 v2024.1 release 2024-06-06 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 v2024.2 release cycle is scheduled to start in October 2023. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2024-07-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2024-08-07 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2024-08-14 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2024-08-21 RC testing 2024-08-22..09-04 v2024.1 release 2024-09-05 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 v2023.5 release cycle is scheduled to start in April 2024. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2024-04-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2024-05-01 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2024-05-08 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2024-05-15 RC testing 2024-05-16..05-29 v2023.5 release 2024-05-30 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 v2025dev0 is the first development release of the Apertis v2025 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2025.0 release in March 2025. This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Bookworm along with several customizations and it ships the latest Linux kernel 6. [Read More]

The v2025dev1 release cycle is scheduled to start in January 2024. Milestone Date Start of release cycle 2024-01-01 Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2024-02-14 Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2024-02-21 Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2024-02-28 RC testing 2024-02-29..03-13 v2025dev1 release 2024-03-14 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]