releasenotes.md

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date = "2017-12-21"
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title = "17.09 ReleaseNotes"

aliases = [
    "/old-wiki/17.09/ReleaseNotes"
]
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# Apertis 17.09 Release

**17.09** is the current stable development release of **Apertis**, a
Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of
product-specific images for ARM (both in the 32bit ARMv7 version using
the hardfloat ABI and in the 64-bit ARMv8 version) and Intel x86-64
(64-bit) systems.

This Apertis release is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS
release with several customization. Test results of the 17.09 release
are available in the [17.09 test
report]( {{< ref "/qa/weekly_tests/17.09/20170923.md" >}} ).

### Release downloads

| [Apertis 17.09 images](https://images.apertis.org/release/17.09/) |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Intel 64-bit                                                      |

The `minimal`, `target` and `development` images are tested on the
[reference hardware (MinnowBoard MAX)]( {{< ref "/reference_hardware/_index.md" >}} ),
but they can run on any UEFI-based x86-64 system. The `sdk` image is
[tested under VirtualBox]( {{< ref "/virtualbox.md" >}} ).

#### Apertis 17.09 repositories

` $ deb `<https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/>` 17.09 target helper-libs development sdk hmi`

## New features

During this release the focus has been on bugfixes and improvements on
the server infrastructure, but this does not mean that we lack new
features: in particular, the application framework refactoring that has
been started during the 17.06 cycle has landed in 17.09, and it is now
able to work on system which lack direct access to a Btrfs filesystem.
This is extremely useful for systems using flash-based filesystems and
for containers-based setups where allowing the container privileged
access to the file system may be undesirable. Compatibility with
existing Btrfs-based setups is preserved, and they can be migrated
transparently.

## Groundwork

Apertis [now works better in a container]( {{< ref "/containers.md" >}} ) right
out of the box, ensuring that AppArmor is enabled and disabling some
filesytem-related services which are not needed inside a container.

Automation has been a recurring theme during this cycle, and now the
[developers documentation](https://developer.apertis.org/) is
automatically deployed on push. The main automation effort has been in
defining more formally the whole release branching process and automate
the most of it: this will allow us to make releases with more ease,
reducing the chance of errors and focusing our efforts on making Apertis
even more awesome.

## Design and documentation

The [Apertis platform
guide](https://developer.apertis.org/platform-guide.html) now provides
an high-level overview of what the Apertis platform is, which components
compose it and what are the concepts that drive its development.

The [Hello World
section](https://developer.apertis.org/appdev-hello-world.html) in the
application developers guide has been updated to reflect the latest
Eclipse UI.

If you want to run Apertis in a container, the [setup
instructions]( {{< ref "/containers.md" >}} ) have been overhauled and
clarified, and running an Apertis container under an Apertis system just
takes a couple of minutes.

On the design front, the [Inter-Domain Communications
document](https://designs.apertis.org/latest/inter-domain-communication.html)
now has some provisions for sharing large amount of static data as bulk
transfers, such as firmware updates or map data for offline navigation.

## Deprecations and ABI/API breaks

### Deprecations

During this release cycle we have continued to mark obsolete or
problematic APIs with the [ABI
break](https://phabricator.apertis.org/tag/abi_break/) tag as a way to
clear technical debt in future.

#### Mildenhall UI framework

<dl>

<dt>

The Mildenhall UI toolkit is deprecated in favour of other UI toolkits
such as GTK+, Qt, or HTML5-based solutions

<dd>

From the next release Apertis may no longer ship the Mildenhall UI
toolkit, as the underlying Clutter library has been deprecated upstream
for some years now.

</dl>

#### Application framework

<dl>

<dt>

`ribchester-full` and `canterbury-full` are deprecated

<dd>

From the next release Canterbury and Ribchester will only offer the APIs
provided by the respective `-core` and the additional APIs offered by
the `-full` packages will be dropped\<

</dl>

### Breaks

No known breaking changes are part of the 17.09 release.

## Infrastructure

### Apertis infrastructure tools

For Debian Jessie based systems:

` $ deb `<https://repositories.apertis.org/debian/>` jessie tools`

For Ubuntu Trusty based systems:

` $ deb `<https://repositories.apertis.org/ubuntu/>` trusty tools`

### Images

Image daily builds, as well as release builds can be found at:

` `<https://images.apertis.org/>

Image build tools can be found in the Apertis tools repositories.

## Known issues

### High (3)

  - Crash observed on seed module when we accesing the D-Bus call method

  - Containers fail to load on Gen4 host

  - The video player window is split into 2 frames in default view

### Normal (132)

  - On first flashing of the image any second application does not get
    displayed (eg. album art)

  - On multiple re-entries from settings to eye the compositor hangs

  - Automated tests are not run on ARM

  - introspectable support for GObject property, signal and methods

  - Target ARM images contain a spurious rootfs.tar.gz in the boot
    partition

  - Crash observed on webruntime framework

  - Incorrect network available state shown in GNetworkMonitor

  - libreoffice fails to build from source on aarch64

  - Observing multiple service instances in all 17.06 SDK images

  - Frampton application doesn't load when we re-launch them after
    clicking the back button

  - Rendering issue observed on websites like
    <http://www.moneycontrol.com>

  - Render theme buttons are not updating with respect to different zoom
    levels

  - HTML5 demo video's appear flipped when played on webkit2 based
    browser app

  - Broken HTML generation in Backworth for the developers portal
    website

  - Page rendering is not smooth in sites like www.yahoo.com

  - Mildenhall should install themes in the standard xdg data dirs

  - webkit2GTK crash observed flicking on webview from other widget

  - Failed to load Captcha in Apertis developer portal

  - webkit-ac-3d-rendering test case fails

  - Newport test fails on minimal images

  - Avoid unconstrained dbus AppArmor rules in frome

  - Steps like pattern is seen in the background in songs application

  - virtual keyboard is not showing for password input field of any
    webpage

  - u-boot: Unable to find the device tree for R-car starter kit H3UCLB

  - Shutdown not working properly in virtualbox

  - bredon-0-launcher should be shipped in its own package, not in
    libbredon-0-1

  - webview-test should be shipped in libbredon-0-tests instead of
    libbredon-0-1

  - libbredon/seed uninstallable on target as they depend on libraries
    in :development

  - Mismatching gvfs/gvfs-common and libatk1.0-0/libatk1.0-data package
    versions in the archive

  - MildenhallSelPopupItem model should be changed to accept only gchar
    \* instead of MildenhallSelPopupItemIconDetail for icons

  - Rhosydd service crashes when client exits on some special usecases
    (Refer description for it)

  - rhosydd-client crashes when displaying vehicle properties for mock
    backend

  - libmildenhall-0-0 contains files that would conflict with a future
    libmildenhall-0-1

  - libshoreham packaging bugs

  - arm-linux-gnueabihf-pkg-config does not work with sysroots installed
    by \`ade\`

  - MildenhallSelectionPopupItem doesn't take ownership when set
    properties

  - In mildenhall, URL history speller implementation is incomplete.

  - Variable roller is not working

  - Roller problem in settings application

  - Songs do not start playing from the beginning but instead start a
    little ahead

  - Blank screen seen in Songs application on re-entry

  - Compositor hides the other screens

  - Status bar is not getting updated with the current song/video being
    played

  - canterbury: Most of the tests fail

  - ribchester: gnome-desktop-testing test times out

  - rhosydd: integration test fails

  - didcot-client: autopkgtest fails with
    org.apertis.Didcot.Error.NoApplicationFound and ""Unit
    didcot.service could not be found""

  - GtkClutterLauncher: Segfaults with mouse right-clicking

  - Cross debugging through GDB and GDBserver Not possible.

  - Voice/Audio is not heard for the Bluez-hfp profile in i.MX6

  - Deploying LAVA tests for SDK images on personal stream fails

  - The web runtime doesn't set the related view when opening new
    windows

  - Segmentation fault when disposing test executable of mildenhall

  - <abstractions/chaiwala-base> gives privileges that not every
    app-bundle should have

  - Canterbury entry-point launching hides global popups, but only
    sometimes

  - Album art is missing in one of the rows of the songs application

  - folks: random tests fail

  - GLib, GIO Reference Manual links are incorrectly swapped

  - GObject Generator link throws 404 error

  - Search feature doesn't work correctly for appdev portal located at
    <https://appdev.apertis.org/documentation/index.html>

  - cgroups-resource-control: test network-cgroup-prio-class failed

  - webview Y offset not considered to place, full screen video on
    youtube webpage

  - Confirm dialog status updated before selecting the confirm option
    YES/NO

  - gupnp-services tests test_service_browsing and
    test_service_introspection fail on target-arm image

  - Resizing the window causes page corruption

  - Content on a webpage doesn't load in sync with the scroll bar

  - Compositor seems to hide the bottom menu of a webpage

  - telepathy-gabble-tests should depend on python-dbus

  - libgles2-vivante-dev is not installable

  - mx6qsabrelite: linking issue with libgstimxeglvivsink.so and
    libgstimxvpu.so gstreamer plugins

  - apparmor-folks: unable to link contacts to test unlinking

  - tracker tests: Error creating thumbnails: No poster key found in
    metadata

  - Cannot open links within website like yahoo.com

  - mildenhall_launcher process needs to be killed in order to view
    browser using webkit2 GtkClutterLauncher

  - polkit-parsing: TEST_RESULT:fail

  - make check fails on libbredon package for wayland warnings

  - Ribchester: deadlock when calling RemoveApp() right after RollBack()

  - Canterbury messes up kerning when .desktop uses unicode chars

  - VirtualBox freezes using 100% CPU when resuming the host from
    suspend

  - VirtualBox display freezes when creating multiple notifications at
    once and interacting (hover and click) with them

  - apparmor-tracker: underlying_tests failed

  - tracker-indexing-local-storage: Stopping tracker-store services

  - Clang package fails to install appropriate egg-info needed by hotdoc

  - Unusable header in Traprain section in Devhelp

  - Album Art Thumbnail missing in Thumb view in ARTIST Application

  - If 2 drawers are activated, the most recent one hides behind the
    older one, instead of coming on top of older one.

  - Test apps are failing in Liblightwood with the use of GTest

  - Focus in launcher rollers broken because of copy/paste errors

  - Mismatch between server version file and sysroot version

  - Pulse Audio volume control doesn't launch as a separate window on
    SDK

  - Images for the video links are not shown in news.google.com on
    GtkClutterLauncher

  - Crash when initialising egl on ARM target

  - Zoom in feature does not work on google maps

  - Cannot open/view pdf documents in browser (GtkClutterLauncher)

  - Drop down lists are not working on a site like facebook

  - gupnp-services: test service failed

  - LAVA: Could not resolve host: repositories.apertis.org

  - shapwick reads /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/passwd, and writes
    /var/root/.cache/dconf/

  - factory reset with a different image's rootfs.tar.gz results in
    emergency mode

  - GStreamer playbin prioritises imxeglvivsink over
    clutterautovideosink

  - Fix folks EDS tests to not be racy

  - Interaction with PulseAudio not allowed by its AppArmor profile

  - Background video is not played in some website with
    GtkClutterLauncher

  - Share links to facebook, twitter are nbt working in browser
    (GtkClutterLauncher)

  - The background HMI is blank on clicking the button for Power OFF

  - libsoup-unit: ssl-test failed for ARM

  - Horizontal scroll is not shown on GtkClutterLauncher

  - telepathy-gabble: Several tests failed

  - Investigate why development ARM image fails to generate

  - minimal image: DISPLAY sanity check tests failed

  - Unsupported launguage text is not shown on the page in
    GtkClutterLauncher

  - Back option is missing as part of the tool tip

  - Target doesn't reboot after system update

  - Bluetooth pairing option not working as expected

  - Video doesn't play when toggling from full screen to detail view

  - Theme ,any F node which is a child of an E node is not working for
    Apertis widgets.

  - cgroups-resource-control: blkio-weights tests failed

  - Videos are hidden when Eye is launched

  - mildenhall-settings: does not generate localization files from
    source

  - libgrassmoor: executes tracker-control binary

  - Clutter_text_set_text API redraws entire clutterstage

  - factory-reset-tool TC: flagcheck messages are hidden by Plymouth

  - mxkineticscrollview-smooth-pan:Free scroll doesn't work

  - Network search pop-up isn't coming up in wi-fi settings

  - apparmor-libreoffice: libreoffice.normal.expected fails:
    ods_to_pdf: fail \[Bugzilla bug \#331\]

  - apparmor-pulseaudio: ARM Failed to drain stream: Timeout

  - Power button appers to be disabled on target

  - Documentation is not available from the main folder

  - Only half of the hmi is covered when opening gnome.org

  - remove INSTALL, aclocal.m4 files from langtoft

  - No connectivity Popup is not seen when the internet is disconnected.

  - Not able to load heavy sites on GtkClutterLauncher

### Low (16)

  - developer.a.o CSS broken

  - connman: patch "device: Don't report EALREADY" not accepted upstream

  - connman: patch "Use ProtectSystem=true" rejected upstream

  - qemu-arm-static not found in the pre installed qemu-user-static
    package

  - Spacing issues between text and selection box in website like amazon

  - LAVA doesn't report all results for some Target ARM tests

  - gstreamer1-0-decode: Failed to load plugin warning

  - beep audio decoder gives errors continously

  - Context drawer displced when switching to fullscreen in browser app

  - Printing hotdoc webpage directly results in misformatted document

  - Simulator screen is not in center but left aligned

  - bluetooth device pair failing with ""Invalid arguments in method
    call""

  - webkit-clutter-javascriptcore: run-javascriptcore-tests fails

  - Mildenhall compositor crops windows

  - Upstream: linux-tools-generic should depend on lsb-release

  - Remove unnecessary folks package dependencies for automated tests