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.

Test results for the v2019.3 release are available in the following test reports:

Point releases including all the security fixes accumulated will be published quarterly, up to v2019.7.

Release flow

  • 2019 Q1: v2019dev0
  • 2019 Q2: v2019pre
  • 2019 Q3: v2019.0
  • 2019 Q4: v2019.1
  • 2020 Q1: v2019.2
  • 2020 Q2: v2019.3
  • 2020 Q3: v2019.4
  • 2020 Q4: v2019.5
  • 2021 Q1: v2019.6
  • 2021 Q2: v2019.7

Release downloads

Apertis v2019.3 images
Intel 64-bit minimal target base SDK SDK
ARM 32-bit (U-Boot) minimal
ARM 64-bit (U-Boot) minimal

The Intel minimal and target images are tested on the reference hardware (MinnowBoard MAX), but they can run on any UEFI-based x86-64 system. The basesdk and sdk images are tested under VirtualBox.

Apertis v2019 repositories

deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2019 target development sdk hmi
deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2019-security target development sdk hmi

Changes

This is a point release in the stable cycle, only security fixes and small changes are appropriate for this release stream.

This release includes the security updates from Debian Buster.

Deprecations and ABI/API breaks

Being a point release, no new deprecations or ABI breaks are part of this release

Infrastructure

Apertis Docker registry

The Apertis Docker registry stores Docker images in order to provide a unified and easily reproducible build environment for developers and services.

As of today, this includes the apertis-image-builder, apertis-package-builder, apertis-package-source-builder, apertis-testcases-builder and apertis-documentation-builder Docker images.

Apertis infrastructure tools

The Apertis v2019 infrastructure repository provides packages for the required versions of ostree-push and ostree for Debian Buster:

deb https://repositories.apertis.org/infrastructure-v2019/ buster infrastructure

Images

Image daily builds, as well as release builds can be found at:

https://images.apertis.org/

Image build tools can be found in the Apertis tools repositories.

Infrastructure overview

The Image build infrastructure document provides an overview of the image building process and the involved services.

Known issues

High (7)

Normal (162)

Low (20)

Lowest (80)