24.8 Changes

The release contains a total of 933 changesets, including approximately 1442 packages updates, 148 issues fixed, 101 packages or features added, 36 removed and 15 improvements.

User visible

• GCC 14.1
• GlibC 2.40
• LLVM/Clang 18.1.8
• Linux 6.10.2
• ships OpenJDK by default
• new and modern top-level ./t2 frontend

Developer visible

• Linux-header 6.6
• improved support for Musl libc
• improved support for Clang

Known Issues

Due to the nature of all cross compiled base install ISOs, gobject-introspection is not installed by default and some packages need to be natively, locally rebuilt for some advanced gnome-desktop packages.