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Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) branding logo revealed!

Since the first release of Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) on March 2026, the toolkit has seen numerous improvements, including the addition of custom hooks and other features. With the release of version 1.1.0.0 that added custom hooks, we’re so excited to set a bright future for this toolkit.

This toolkit not only simplifies the build process, but also streamlines project management, such as cleaning binaries, pushing binaries to repositories, and so on, with custom vendor scripts as the medium to increase the range of projects that can use ADT. It also works with GitHub Actions and other CI solutions, not just on your local machine, to ensure that your projects build successfully on such environments, both online and offline.

We are so excited to reveal the new logo of ADT, which you can now see below!

This new logo is available in the updated branding kit, which you can download here.

Learn more about this new logo here.

Aptivi Development Toolkit v1.1 is now available!

Earlier this year, we’ve released the first version of Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) after months of planning and execution, with the older platform-specific scripts as the medium for our plans. This version was made for developers to integrate the toolkit to their projects to make the build system more predictable and consistent across platforms. This toolkit also provided some basic Git operations, such as creating commits and pushing them.

Since the initial March release, we’ve worked towards improving the toolkit by adding features while focusing on improvements that made the toolkit more reliable. Now, we are excited to announce a new version of ADT, which is version v1.1.0.0!

This version of ADT adds two new features, as well as several improvements being made to the toolkit to increase its reliability while preserving usability. The following changes were made since the release of v1.0.2.0:

• Added custom actions
• Added listing remote branches
• Attribute and type validation is now enforced
• Push progress is now clearer
• Fixed submodule changes causing git push fails

This version of the development toolkit will be rolled out to all our projects soon.

To learn more about this version of ADT, as well as the upgrade process in your project, please consult the Newsroom here.

Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) v1.0.2.0 is now available!

Since the first release of Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT), we have worked on making plans for this toolkit’s updates to make sure that it stays reliable and stable. The first version was first released on March 5th to replace the older shell scripts that formed a toolkit.

We are so excited to announce that the new minor version of ADT, v1.0.2.0, is now available to the public as of today! This version of ADT provides two new features and an improvement across different areas of the toolkit.

Here is the simplified list of the changes that were made to the development toolkit since the initial release:

• Improved project handling
• Help now shows for non-standalone actions when requested with -h

To learn more about this release, along with instructions on how to upgrade ADT to v1.0.2.0, consult the below Newsroom article.

Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) v1.0.1.0 is now available!

Since the first release of Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT), we have worked on making plans for this toolkit’s updates to make sure that it stays reliable and stable. The first version was first released on March 5th to replace the older shell scripts that formed a toolkit.

We are so excited to announce that the new minor version of ADT, v1.0.1.0, is now available to the public as of today! This version of ADT provides two new features and an improvement across different areas of the toolkit.

Here is the simplified list of the changes that were made to the development toolkit since the initial release:

• Added -d or --dry options for creating commits
• Added --self global parameter
• Improved push output on completion

To learn more about this release, along with instructions on how to upgrade ADT to v1.0.1.0, consult the below Newsroom article.

Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) migration for our projects

In an earlier announcement, we have announced the existence of the Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) toolset that allows you to make your own build system for your projects using Python scripts.

Now, we are planning to roll it out to all our projects, starting from this week, with more projects being on the list, and the rollout is expected to be finished within two whole weeks.

Starting from this week (March 8th to 14th), we will gradually update the following projects to use the new build system:

• Textify
• Colorimetry
• VisualCard
• SpecProbe
• Magico

After those projects get updated, the remaining projects will have been updated by the end of the next week. This is necessary to find and fix the last of the bugs before the wider rollout.

Meanwhile, we have made the documentation for the toolkit available on our GitBook instance as you can see here. This documentation will be gradually expanded as we develop new versions and during the rollout period.

The toolkit is open source, and you can see its source code here, cloneable as a Git submodule.

Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT) is now official!

Our earlier announcement talked about how we’ve finalized the development of the new toolkit and how it would replace the older script-based toolkit. We have stated that the older script-based toolkit suffered from the following problems:

• Maintenance burdens: The older toolkit raised maintenance concerns, since we have to make sure that the toolkit’s features work properly in both Windows and Unix by maintaining two shell types and keeping them in sync.
• Structure inconsistency: Users were required to provide a script file for each action on Windows, while they were required to provide functions that implement a specific action, all in one script, on Unix.
• Complex problems required complex solutions: Since the older script-based toolkit used batch files and Bash scripts, problems that were more complex required complex and potentially fragile solutions.
• Readability issues: The scripts suffer from readability issues, due to lots of variety needed for this toolkit to happen, such as argument processing for an action. This makes maintenance harder and more time consuming.

Today, we are very excited to announce that the all-new toolkit, Aptivi Development Toolkit (ADT), is now available!

This toolkit solves the above problems by using Python as the scripting language due to its coherence and efficiency. By making the implementation of vendor scripts easier and more readable, long-term maintenance is guaranteed. This careful study has resulted in a toolkit that allows you to implement complex problems more efficiently, while maintaining readability.

Here are some of the key features of how ADT will transform your development experience when working on projects:

• Python instead of shell scripts: We have advocated into using Python 3.x in the development toolkit as it’s available on all major platforms, such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. It also simplifies the way you implement your vendor scripts to reduce maintenance burden and to make your scripts more convenient to work with.
• Built-in report system: The development toolkit provides you an “internal report” facility that allows you to generate a report about your project to a text file either locally or on a remote SSH server. This lets you get extensive details about your projects effortlessly.
• Built-in basic Git integration: ADT also contains the Git integration, which allows you to perform some of the most common Git operations, including committing, pushing, and so on. This is not a drop-in replacement for Git and its command-line interface, as it only focuses on the basics.
• Conventional commits: The Git integration’s commits use conventional commits that we’ve described in our contribution guidelines. Alternatively, you can use the standard git commit command if you want to opt out from conventional commits.
• Cloneable as a Git submodule: ADT respects the old script-based toolkit’s goals by making it cloneable as a submodule to make the toolkit focus on only one project. This also allows you to maintain different revisions of ADT across different Git repositories.

To add ADT as a submodule to your project, use git submodule add https://github.com/Aptivi/tools.

Please note that you’ll have to obtain Python 3.10 or greater to be able to use this toolkit without any problems.