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 v2024.2 is the third stable release of the Apertis v2024 stable release flow. Apertis is committed to maintaining the v2024 release stream up to the end of 2025.

This is the first Apertis release that is built on top of Debian Bookworm along with several customizations and it ships the latest Linux LTS kernel 6.6.x series. Later releases in the v2024 channel will be tracking kernel updates in this LTS series as well as Debian Bookworm Stable Channel.

Test results for the v2024.2 release are available in the following test reports. During the testing period, a small issue with debos was found, and in order to provide images with the fix available, v2024.2rc2 was published. However, due to the nature of the fix no additional manual testing was performed.

Tests done on v2024.2rc2:

Tests done on v2024.2rc1:

Release flow

  • 2022 Q4: v2024dev0
  • 2023 Q1: v2024dev1
  • 2023 Q2: v2024dev2
  • 2023 Q3: v2024dev3
  • 2023 Q4: v2024pre
  • 2024 Q1: v2024.0
  • 2024 Q2: v2024.1
  • 2024 Q3: v2024.2
  • 2024 Q4: v2024.3
  • 2025 Q1: v2024.4
  • 2025 Q2: v2024.5
  • 2025 Q3: v2024.6
  • 2025 Q4: v2024.7

Release downloads

Apertis v2024.2 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 v2024 package list

The full list of packages available from the v2024 APT repositories is available in tab-separated value (TSV) format for easy processing in spreadsheets:

Apertis v2024 repositories

deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2024 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 Bookworm and the latest LTS Linux kernel on the 6.6.x series.

Deprecations and ABI/API breaks

Regressions

No known regressions.

Deprecations

No known deprecations.

Breaks

No nown 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 #615 aum-offline-upgrade-branch: test failed

Normal

  • Issue #7 Crash when initialising egl on ARM target
  • Issue #32 Gitlab pipeline OBS job reported “success” but OBS build was “unresolvable”
  • Issue #118 tiny-container-system-connectivity-profile: test failed
  • 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 #322 wrap-and-sort fails to parse some debian/control.in files
  • Issue #330 datefudge: 64-bit time_t support on 32-bit archs
  • 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 #405 traprain: test failed
  • 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 #448 ade-commands: test failed
  • Issue #459 tiny-container-system-device-sharing: test failed
  • Issue #485 AUM tests fail on v2024 and v2025dev* armhf
  • 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 #490 gpgv (sequioa) crashes when added debian archives
  • 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 #603 AUM upgrade branch fails on amd64 on all releases
  • Issue #632 sdk-import-debian-package: test failed
  • Issue #633 dashboard: issues just after a branching
  • Issue #634 aum-ota-out-of-space: test failed
  • Issue #637 Improve the repo/pipeline used to test the lintian job
  • Issue #638 Improve the repos/pipelines used to test the abi-checker job
  • Issue #639 apertis-dev depends on eatmydata that was dropped during the rebase on Bookworm

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 #607 Pipeline for sample application helloworld-https-client fails