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 v2025dev3 is the fourth development release of the Apertis v2025 stable release flow that will lead to the LTS Apertis v2025.0 release in March 2025.
This Apertis release is built on top of Debian Bookworm along with several customizations and it ships the latest Linux kernel 6.9.x series. Later releases in the v2025 channel will be tracking newer kernel versions up to the next LTS as well as Debian Bookworm Stable Channel.
Test results for the v2025dev3 release are available in the following test reports:
Release flow
- 2023 Q4: v2025dev0
- 2024 Q1: v2025dev1
- 2024 Q2: v2025dev2
- 2024 Q3: v2025dev3
- 2024 Q4: v2025pre
- 2025 Q1: v2025.0
- 2025 Q2: v2025.1
- 2025 Q3: v2025.2
- 2025 Q4: v2025.3
- 2026 Q1: v2025.4
- 2026 Q2: v2025.5
- 2026 Q3: v2025.6
- 2026 Q4: v2025.7
Release downloads
| Apertis v2025dev3.0 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 v2025dev3 package list
The full list of packages available from the v2025dev3 APT repositories is available in tab-separated value (TSV) format for easy processing in spreadsheets:
Apertis v2025dev3 repositories
deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ v2025dev3 target development sdk non-free
New features
Support for NXP LS1028ARDB board
Apertis now provides images for the NXP LS1028ARDB allowing developers building products using this platform to have a good starting point. The fixed function images is available in the standard Apertis download site
Build and integration
Folding and branching pipeline improvements
The folding and branching process has been moved to Gitlab CI, but the work continues to make these pipelines more developer and user friendly. With this idea in mind the code has been refactored to improve consistency and make it easier to maintain and debug. From the user perspective, the new version provides more hints to and checks to avoid mistakes and improve debug information.
Dashboard delta tracking
Continuing with the effort on tracking delta from upstream, Apertis dashboard provides more refined information about the root cause of the delta. Based on this information the Apertis team continuously upstreams changes to benefit the community.
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 #615 aum-offline-upgrade-branch: test failed
- Issue #616 polkit-parsing: test failed
- Issue #636 WiFi connection does not bring up after reboot
Normal
- Issue #7 Crash when initialising egl on ARM target
- Issue #32 Gitlab pipeline OBS job reported “success” but OBS build was “unresolvable”
- 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 #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 #611 RPi4 is unable to boot linux 6.8
- Issue #614 sdk-cross-compilation: test failed