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 v2022.1 is the second stable release of the Apertis v2022 stable release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2022 release stream up to the end of 2023.

This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Bullseye with several customisations and the Linux kernel 5.15.x LTS series.

Test results for the v2022.1 release are available in the following test reports:

Release flow

  • 2020 Q4: v2022dev0
  • 2021 Q1: v2022dev1
  • 2021 Q2: v2022dev2
  • 2021 Q3: v2022dev3
  • 2021 Q4: v2022pre
  • 2022 Q1: v2022.0
  • 2022 Q2: v2022.1
  • 2022 Q3: v2022.2
  • 2022 Q4: v2022.3
  • 2023 Q1: v2022.4
  • 2023 Q2: v2022.5
  • 2023 Q3: v2022.6
  • 2023 Q4: v2022.7

Release downloads

Apertis v2022.1 images
Intel 64-bit fixedfunction hmi base SDK SDK
ARM 32-bit (U-Boot) fixedfunction hmi
ARM 64-bit (U-Boot) fixedfunction
ARM 64-bit (Raspberry Pi) fixedfunction hmi

The Intel fixedfunction and hmi images are tested on the reference hardware (MinnowBoard Turbot Dual-Core), but they can run on any UEFI-based x86-64 system. The sdk image is tested under VirtualBox.

Apertis v2022.1 repositories

deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2022 target development sdk

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 Bullseye and the latest LTS Linux kernel on the 5.15.x series.

Deprecations and ABI/API breaks

Regressions

No known regressions.

Deprecations

No known deprecations.

Breaks

No known breaks.

Infrastructure

Apertis Docker images

The Apertis Docker images provide a unified and easily reproducible build environment for developers and services.

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

Apertis infrastructure tools

The Apertis v2022 infrastructure repository provides packages for the required versions of ostree-push and ostree for Debian Buster:

deb https://repositories.apertis.org/infrastructure-v2022/ buster infrastructure

Images

Image daily builds, as well as release builds can be found at https://images.apertis.org/

Infrastructure overview

The Apertis Image Recipes provides an overview of the image building process and the involved services.

Known issues

After intensive testing in LAVA on both v2022.0 and v2022.1 we’ve detected a very rare filesystem error when using OSTree images. This issue is very hard to reproduce and still under investigation but the system should be able to recover automatically from it.

High (24)

  • T7879 sdk-debos-image-building: test failed
  • T8456 aum-api: test failed
  • T8547 sanity-check: test failed
  • T8603 AUM fails to detect rollback on Lava for RPi64 board
  • T8604 AUM tests fails on Lava for RPi64 board
  • T8660 Random FS issues on OSTree images
  • T8749 aum-offline-upgrade-signed: test failed
  • T8757 aum-ota-api: test failed
  • T8762 aum-ota-signed: test failed
  • T8763 aum-out-of-space: test failed
  • T8765 aum-ota-auto: test failed
  • T8772 aum-power-cut: test failed
  • T8789 Gitlab issues test: API Test for Gitlab issues
  • T8790 aum-ota-rollback-blacklist: test failed
  • T8822 aum-offline-upgrade: test failed
  • T8825 aum-ota-out-of-space: test failed
  • T8827 aum-rollback-blacklist: test failed
  • T8840 Gitlab issues test: Audio is not heard on startup
  • T8842 gstreamer1-0-decode: test failed
  • T8868 Strace package is being failed on OBS
  • T8896 aum-offline-upgrade-branch: test failed
  • T8899 disk-rootfs-fsck: test failed
  • T8925 ostree-push failure is seen when trying to Reproduce a build
  • T8927 Flatpak: sdk-flatpak-build-helloworld-app test fails on v2021.5 sdk

Normal (42)

  • T2896 Crash when initialising egl on ARM target
  • T3920 arm-linux-gnueabihf-pkg-config does not work with sysroots installed by ade
  • T5748 System users are shipped in /usr/etc/passwd instead of /lib/passwd
  • T5896 sdk-dbus-tools-bustle testcase is failing
  • T5900 evolution-sync-bluetooth test fails
  • T6024 sdk-dbus-tools-d-feet: folks-inspect: command not found
  • T6111 traprain: 7_traprain test failed
  • 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
  • T6768 Fix the kernel command line generation in OSTRee for FIT image
  • T6773 HAB testing: the unsigned image may pass validation in several circumstances
  • 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
  • T7000 DNS resolution does not work in Debos on some setups
  • T7512 debos sometimes fails to mount things
  • T7721 Fakemachine in debos immediately powers off and hangs in v2021 and v2022dev1 when using UML on the runners
  • T7785 DNS over TLS does not work on systemd-resolve
  • T7819 newport: test failed
  • T7852 Investigate test failure TestGetSourceMount
  • 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”
  • T8175 License scan fails on package texlive-extra
  • T8194 ci-license-scan prints final error paragraph in the middle of scan-copyrights output
  • T8281 dashboard: gnome-settings-daemon-data incorrectly flagged as missing the git repository
  • T8504 LAVA/Phab bridge timeouts
  • T8524 grilo: test failed
  • T8572 Missing warning on coreutils overwrite
  • T8622 Manual testcase results should not have any hyperlink in the LavaPhabridge report page
  • T8629 frome: test failed
  • T8634 Failed to start Access poi…server : logs seen in v2023dev1 Amd64 boot logs
  • T8668 Test apparmor-chaiwala-system does not work properly on OSTree images
  • T8683 “firmware: failed to load” logs seen during boot
  • T8824 The apertis-flatdeb-mildenhall pipeline is flaky
  • T8841 apparmor-ofono: test failed
  • T8860 Copyrights in the image licenses.json file contain entries with newlines
  • T8874 The firefox-esr package is being failed on OBS
  • T8875 Terminal at xfce desktop corrupted after debos call
  • T8887 Some binaries in the toolchain tarball are huge
  • T8909 apparmor-pipewire: test failed
  • T8924 Define strategy for FS corruption issue