The APT development team, through Julian Andres Klode, has announced that APT 1.3 is now open for development, seeding the first milestone to the experimental channel for public testing.
APT (Advanced Package Tool) is the command-line (CLI) package manager used by default in the well-known Debian GNU/Linux operating system, and inherited by any Debian derivative out there, including the popular Ubuntu and Linux Mint distributions.
The development process of APT is pretty strange when viewed from outside, as the 1.0 branch is now considered the stable version of the software, but many distros, including the recently released Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), are using a build from the 1.2 series, which now sits in the unstable or testing channels.
Therefore, the development cycle of the next major branch, APT 1.3, is happening on the experimental channel, wh… (read more)
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