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Since what Ubuntu version/release was created and available the apt command? It with the purpose to replace apt-get or offered how a new alternative against apt-get

I want the official post from Ubuntu.com indicating or announcing the "new" apt command, and the reason(s), it for historical documentation purposes.

Yes, I read some tutorials about the difference between them and the reasons, but not from the source (Ubuntu.com)

Manuel Jordan
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    It seems doubtful to me that an "official post from Ubuntu.com" exists. While several Ubuntu volunteers and several Canonical engineers have contributed to apt, and even had leadership roles with the apt project, it's an upstream project -- not an Ubuntu project, not a Canonical project. You can see this in the apt package control file: Original-Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>. See https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt – user535733 Jun 03 '22 at 00:00
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    Many blogs posted to ubuntu.com do not remain there... I'm involved with Ubuntu News and we note blogs during the week, summaries are written on the weekend, but we always check just prior to posting as it's common for a Ubuntu blog that existed, to no longer exist (thus we remove it too from our post prior to publish). If I was after dating details; I'd search old Ubuntu News weekly newsletter as if the article wasn't removed prior to publish time, we don't remove the links (and it provides rather accurate dating too) but I do agree with user535733 – guiverc Jun 03 '22 at 00:02
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    FYI: A quick command on CLI and I can seeapt is available for all supported releases of Ubuntu (including the ESM releases too!) Alas precise (12.04) completed it's ESM so that no longer shows on my CLI enquiries (as they'll only show supported development + ESM) – guiverc Jun 03 '22 at 00:09
  • Thanks for the feedback - seems there are other "official" resources. But in some point and from some place that announce had been released for some Ubuntu specific, release, right? – Manuel Jordan Jun 03 '22 at 13:05

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As indicated in the comments, it will be difficult to locate an "official announcement" of the release of apt. Second, apt is not created by the Ubuntu developers. It is a formal part of the APT package management system, maintained by Debian.

According to a blog post of Michael Vogt, developper for Deban (since 2000) and Ubuntu (since 2004), the new tool apt was introduced along with APT 1.0, which was released on 1 april 2014. It was included in Ubuntu 14.04 (with thanks to muru) but only publicized in later versions.

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    apt is found in trusty repositories too; apt | 1.0.1ubuntu2 | trusty | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el (with later package versions in -updates etc) & you'll note the package on trusty manifests too - https://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.6-desktop-amd64.manifest but older unsupported releases are harder to get facts than current... – guiverc Jun 03 '22 at 07:57
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    I just downloaded precise (https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/ubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64.manifest) & apt was included there too; 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10 – guiverc Jun 03 '22 at 08:00
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    @guiverc do those packages contain the apt command, though? I looked through the Docker images of the old releases and the oldest in which I can see an apt binary is 14.04, which makes sense since it was first added to the apt repo around 2013 (version 0.9.11). – muru Jun 03 '22 at 09:19
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    @muru I'd have to grab them & look as changelogs, package.contains.lists etc. are harder to see on non-supported releases (inc. with ESM); even if some CLI tools we include ESM releases such as trusty. trusty is as far as I can see backwards for it too; but I don't have a trusty system to confirm & don't care enough to create one & confirm. I believe it existed before xenial but wasn't very good & most of us just ignored it... – guiverc Jun 03 '22 at 09:55
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    +1 great research that seems to clearly and directly answer the question. – user535733 Jun 03 '22 at 11:28
  • About "It was included in Ubuntu 14.04 (with thanks to muru) but only publicized in later versions" - is normal such approach? To be honest and without be rude is assumed at a first glance that it should be had announced from the beginning - 14.04 – Manuel Jordan Jun 03 '22 at 14:44