25.10 "Never Obsolete" Changes

The release contains a total of 6535 changesets, including approximately 7638 package updates, 717 fixed issues,D packages or features added and 229 removed as well as about 62 other improvements.

Thousands of vintage, retro and niche package updates make this release one of the most up-to-date Linux distributions.

User visible

  • GCC 15.2, LLVM/Clang 20.1.8
  • Glibc 2.42, Musl 1.2.5, uClibC 1.0.54
  • Linux 6.16.10, Mesa 25.1.9
  • OpenJDK
  • initial support for Qualcomm X1-Elite ARM64 SoCs
  • halt now halts and returns to OpenFirmware while only poweroff turns the system off
  • thousands of update & fixes even for niche and vintage packages
  • thousands of optional dependencies for a better source install experience
  • hundreds of newly added packages
  • ships w/ mesa-legacy for older 3d acceleration
  • Firefox & Thunderbird fixed for most 32-bit and big-endian RISC targets
  • cross compiled GDB fixed to load shared-libray symbols
  • iproute2 vlan works for LTO enabled builds
  • improved build time esimate for SMT systems

Developer visible

  • unify .conf code into .desc
  • globally clean quotes and white-space

Pre-built binary ISOs

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ArchitectureLibcCompilerOptimizationVersionSizeDownload
alphaGlibc 2.42GCC 15.2ev5625.101192 MB base-wayland
arcGlibc 2.42GCC 15.225.10282 MB base
arm64Glibc 2.42Clang 20.1.825.101905 MB base-wayland
arm64Glibc 2.42GCC 15.225.102159 MB base-wayland
arm64Musl 1.2.5GCC 15.225.101916 MB base-wayland
armv6Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2armv625.101833 MB base-wayland
armv6eb‡Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2armv625.101441 MB base-wayland
hppaGlibc 2.42GCC 15.225.101533 MB base-wayland
hppa64/32*Glibc 2.42GCC 15.225.101410 MB base-wayland
i486Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2i48625.102055 MB base-wayland
i786Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2i686+sse225.102082 MB base-wayland
ia64Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2itanium225.101400 MB base-wayland
loongarch64Glibc 2.42GCC 15.225.101645 MB base-wayland
m68kGlibc 2.42GCC 15.26802025.101074 MB base-wayland
microblazeGlibc 2.42GCC 15.225.10574 MB base
mipsGlibc 2.42GCC 15.2mips425.101514 MB base-wayland
mips64Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2r500025.101963 MB base-wayland
mipsel†Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2mips32r225.101817 MB base-wayland
nios2Glibc 2.42GCC 15.225.10430 MB base
ppcGlibc 2.42GCC 15.260325.101887 MB base-wayland
ppc64Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2power425.102073 MB base-wayland
ppc64/32*Glibc 2.42GCC 15.297025.102073 MB base-wayland
ppc64le†Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2power825.102069 MB base-wayland
riscvGlibc 2.42GCC 15.225.101374 MB base-wayland
riscv64Glibc 2.42GCC 15.225.102050 MB base-wayland
s390xGlibc 2.42GCC 15.2arch925.101818 MB base-wayland
sparcGlibc 2.42GCC 15.2v825.10528 MB base-xorg
sparc64Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2ultrasparc325.101275 MB base-wayland
sparc64/32*Glibc 2.42GCC 15.225.10890 MB base-wayland
superhGlibc 2.42GCC 15.2sh425.10801 MB base-xorg
x32*Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2nocona25.101674 MB base-wayland
x86-64Glibc 2.42Clang 20.1.8nocona25.102088 MB base-wayland
x86-64Glibc 2.42GCC 15.2nocona25.102129 MB base-wayland
x86-64Musl 1.2.5GCC 15.2nocona25.102006 MB base-wayland
x86-64Musl 1.2.5Clang 20.1.8nocona25.101872 MB base-wayland

*64-bit OS kernel, 32-bit user-space
†little-endian variant
‡big-endian variant

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.