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 v2020.5 is the fifth 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 5.4.x LTS series.

Test results for the v2020.5 release are available in the following test reports:

Point releases including all the security fixes accumulated will be published quarterly, up to v2020.7.

Release flow

  • 2019 Q3: v2020dev0
  • 2019 Q4: v2020pre
  • 2020 Q1: v2020.0
  • 2020 Q2: v2020.1
  • 2020 Q3: v2020.2
  • 2020 Q4: v2020.3
  • 2021 Q1: v2020.4
  • 2021 Q2: v2020.5
  • 2021 Q3: v2020.6
  • 2021 Q4: v2020.7

Release downloads

Apertis v2020.5 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 v2020 package list

Apertis v2020 repositories

deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2020 target development sdk hmi
deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2020-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 and the latest LTS Linux kernel on the 5.4.x series.

Deprecations and ABI/API breaks

The GitLab-CI image building pipeline will replace the Jenkins pipeline

The GitLab-CI imabe building pipeline is now available on the v2020 branch as well. It currently co-exist with the Jenkins pipeline which is still the reference pipeline for this Apertis release.

During the v2020.5 cycle the project will evaluate having the GitLab-CI pipeline as the reference pipeline, putting the Jenkins pipeline into maintenance mode.

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 v2020 infrastructure repository provides packages for the required versions of ostree-push and ostree for Debian Buster:

deb https://repositories.apertis.org/infrastructure-v2020/ 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

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  • T7984 Rhoyssd test shows status as incomplete on v2021 images
  • T2896 Crash when initialising egl on ARM target
  • T2930 Develop test case for out of screen events in Wayland images
  • T3210 Fix Tracker testcase to not download media files from random HTTP user folders
  • T3233 Ribchester: deadlock when calling RemoveApp() right after RollBack()
  • T3321 libgles2-vivante-dev is not installable
  • T3920 arm-linux-gnueabihf-pkg-config does not work with sysroots installed by ade
  • T4092 Containers fail to load on Gen4 host
  • T4293 Preseed action is needed for Debos
  • T4307 ribchester-core causes apparmor denies on non-btrfs minimal image
  • T4422 do-branching fails at a late stage cloning OBS binary repos
  • T4444 A 2-3 second lag between the speakers is observed when a hfp connection is made over bluetooth
  • T4693 Not able to create namespace for AppArmor container on the internal mx6qsabrelite images with proprietary kernel
  • T5487 Wi-Fi search button is missing in wifi application
  • T5748 System users are shipped in /usr/etc/passwd instead of /lib/passwd
  • T5863 Songs/Videos don’t play on i.MX6 with Frampton on internal images
  • T5896 sdk-dbus-tools-bustle testcase is failing
  • T5897 apparmor-ofono test fails
  • T5900 evolution-sync-bluetooth test fails
  • T5931 connman-usb-tethering test fails
  • T6024 folks-inspect: command not found
  • T6077 youtube Videos are not playing on upstream webkit2GTK
  • T6078 Page scroll is lagging in Minibrowser on upstream webkit2GTK
  • T6111 traprain: 7_traprain test failed
  • T6243 AppArmor ubercache support is no longer enabled after 18.12
  • T6291 Generated lavaphabbridge error report email provides wrong link for full report link
  • T6292 gettext-i18n: test failed
  • T6349 sdk-code-analysis-tools-splint: 3_sdk-code-analysis-tools-splint test failed
  • T6366 sdk-cross-compilation: 10_sdk-cross-compilation test failed
  • T6446 aum-update-rollback-tests/amd64: DNS not available in LAVA tests after reboot
  • T6620 Repeatedly plugging and unplugging a USB flash drive on i.MX6 (Sabrelite) results in USB failure
  • T6727 FTBFS: Apertis v2020pre package build failures
  • T6768 Fix the kernel command line generation in OSTRee for FIT image
  • T6773 HAB testing: the unsigned image may pass validation in several circumstances
  • T6783 Kernel trace on armhf board with attached screen
  • T6795 SabreLite failing to boot due to failing “to start udev Coldplug all Devices”
  • T6806 HAB on SabreLite in open state accepts any signed kernel regardless of the signing key
  • T6885 gitlab-rulez fails to set location of the gitlab-ci.yaml on first run
  • T6961 audio-backhandling feature fails
  • T7000 DNS resolution does not work in Debos on some setups
  • T7012 Apparmor Denied session logs keep popping up on the terminal while executing tests
  • T7016 network proxy for browser application is not resolving on mildenhall-compositor
  • T7127 apparmor-functional-demo: test fails on internal images
  • T7128 apparmor-session-lockdown-no-deny
  • T7129 apparmor-tumbler: test failed
  • T7333 apparmor-geoclue: test failed
  • T7512 debos sometimes fails to mount things
  • T7530 ADE can’t download amd64 sysroot.
  • T7617 frome: test failed
  • T7721 Fakemachine in debos immediately powers off and hangs in v2021 and v2022dev1 when using UML on the runners
  • T7776 On executing system-update test on hawkbit-agent wrong delta is selected
  • T7785 DNS over TLS does not work on systemd-resolve
  • T7812 The dlt-daemon build in the devroot testcase fails due to lack of pandoc on Arm platforms
  • T7815 scan-copyright fails to detect (L)GPL-3 code in util-linux
  • T7817 rhosydd: test failed
  • T7819 newport: test failed
  • T7826 Kernel panic logs seen on apertis-update-manager-usb-unplug test on v2019/r-car with u-boot from v2021
  • T7827 When creaing new test repositories common-subtree.sh add gets confused if the checked out branch does not exists in tests/common
  • T7828 License scan fails on less.js due to package.json format not supported
  • T7829 License scan fails on ghostscript due to spaces in filename confusing scan-copyrights
  • T7837 Package httpcomponents-client fails in test case TestSSLSocketFactory
  • T7843 Package node-grunt-legacy-log fails to build in OBS due to environment variables
  • T7849 Error building package po4a in OBS
  • T7859 spymemcached: Investigate failing test due to hostname mismatch
  • T7872 Error building package ruby-redis on OBS
  • T7923 Gitlab pipeline OBS job reported “success” but OBS build was “unresolvable”