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 6.1.x LTS series.
Test results for the v2023.5 release are available in the following test reports:
Release flow
- 2021 Q4: v2023dev0
- 2022 Q1: v2023dev1
- 2022 Q2: v2023dev2
- 2022 Q3: v2023dev3
- 2022 Q4: v2023pre
- 2023 Q1: v2023.0
- 2023 Q2: v2023.1
- 2023 Q3: v2023.2
- 2023 Q4: v2023.3
- 2024 Q1: v2023.4
- 2024 Q2: v2023.5
- 2024 Q3: v2023.6
- 2024 Q4: v2023.7
Release downloads
| Apertis v2023.5 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 (UP Squared 6000),
but they can run on any UEFI-based x86-64 system. The sdk image is
tested under VirtualBox.
Apertis v2023 package list
The full list of packages available from the v2023 APT repositories is available in tab-separated value (TSV) format for easy processing in spreadsheets:
Apertis v2023 repositories
deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2023 target development sdk non-free
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 6.1.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.
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
High
- Issue #419 High level tracking of AUM issues
- Issue #431 Package rust-coreutils does not provide license mapping information
- Issue #546 Tests fail on HMI due to lack of space
- Issue #567 AUM tests fail on RPi4 due to lack of space
- Issue #573 aum-ota-auto: test failed
- Issue #589 aum-api: test failed
- Issue #591 sdk-debos-image-building: test failed
- Issue #593 apparmor-basic-profiles: test failed
- Issue #596 Flatpak rutime pipeline fail to publish
Normal
- Issue #9 System users are shipped in /usr/etc/passwd instead of /lib/passwd
- Issue #66 Some binaries in the toolchain tarball are huge
- Issue #114 ci-package-builder tests fail due to OBS branches not being cleaned up
- Issue #118 tiny-container-system-connectivity-profile: test failed
- Issue #219 Eclipse-ide-cpp can’t show preview of markdown files (.md)
- Issue #246 tiny-container-user-connectivity-profile: test failed
- Issue #273 Debos build output hidden on GitLab job view can only be seen in the raw log file
- Issue #278 chksum report fail! logs are seen when enabling WiFi dongle on the R-Car boards
- Issue #331 Frequent 504 Errors repeatedly causing pipelines to be marked as failed
- Issue #339 Up Squared 6000 board fails to boot randomly in LAVA
- Issue #357 Instability issue in bluez-phone test case for Up Squared 6000 board
- Issue #396 Pipeline to build package fails during build-source for texlive-extra
- Issue #397 Pipeline to import new version of plotly from Bookworm fails during pull-updates
- Issue #441 tiny-container-user-device-sharing: test failed
- Issue #459 tiny-container-system-device-sharing: test failed
- Issue #462 agl-compositor mute functionality not working
- Issue #463 Different behavior observed on running different video applications in different order.
- Issue #486 “webkit2gtk-ac-3d-rendering” fails in “ARMHF”.
- Issue #488 Flashing an HMI image on the eMMC of R-car H3e-2G board leads to a kernel panic.
- Issue #491 AM62x: Do not install firmware prerequisites in image for boot firmware generation
- Issue #525 RPi image list points to v2022 instead of daily development images
- Issue #528 OBS runner creates conflicts in the origin repo, then waits forever for them
- Issue #537 Update some apertis gitlab-ci pipeline to use a bookworm image instead of a bullseye/buster image
- Issue #539 Create automatic sdk tests in apertis-test-cases for abi-checker job
- Issue #541 QA Report App is not able to login
- Issue #554 import-debian-package doesn’t trigger the pipeline adding a debian/apertis/copyright file
- Issue #578 qa report application creates multiple entries per issue
- Issue #586 sdk-import-debian-package: test failed
Low
- Issue #65 Terminal at xfce desktop corrupted after debos call
- Issue #206 AUM rollback tests fail on UP Squared 6000 board
- Issue #270 Issue in playing the Video on HMI armhf