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 v2023.6 is the seventh 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 v2023.6 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 v2023.6 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 #618 Flatpak pipelines fail ramdomly on v2025dev3
  • Issue #635 dbus-installed-tests: test failed

Normal

  • Issue #7 Crash when initialising egl on ARM target
  • Issue #9 System users are shipped in /usr/etc/passwd instead of /lib/passwd
  • Issue #32 Gitlab pipeline OBS job reported “success” but OBS build was “unresolvable”
  • 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 #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 #377 import-debian-package issues during package import
  • Issue #396 Pipeline to build package fails during build-source for texlive-extra
  • Issue #413 obs-runner: Disabled architectures on a OBS package get re-enabled when CI creates a branch
  • 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 #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 #597 obs runner is confused by multple OBS repos
  • Issue #602 lintian: the child pipeline lintian-errors is always triggered on the default branch instead of the same branch as the parent job
  • Issue #633 dashboard: issues just after a branching

Low

  • Issue #15 Fix the kernel command line generation in OSTRee for FIT image
  • Issue #23 Remote outputs and local output, buffer size combined in Maynard/GTK
  • 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
  • Issue #607 Pipeline for sample application helloworld-https-client fails