25.4 Changes

The release contains a total of 3728 changesets, including approximately 4558 package updates, 483 fixed issues, 527 packages or features added and 138 removed as well as about 25 other improvements.

This is the first release and distribution shipping latest AMD ROCm for RISCV-64 and ARM64. Thanks to a sponsorship collaboration of DeepComputing and ExactCODE GmbH who successfully ported AMD's flagship HPC and AI stack to RISC-V and ARM64! This breakthrough significantly advances independant AI and HPC solutions on open hardware platforms.

User visible

  • GCC 14.2, LLVM/Clang 20.1
  • Glibc 2.41, Musl 1.2.5, uClibC 1.0.49
  • Linux 6.14.1, Mesa 25.0.3
  • ships w/ OpenCL by default
  • packaged AMD ROCm and ported to RISCV and ARM64
  • restores Linux reiserfs and Orinocco (AirPort) WiFi drivers
  • new alternative handling, for pkgs like libjpeg-turbo, sdl-compat, ...

Developer visible

  • working toward fully dynamic DEPs, Priority tag is now optional
  • split directx-headers out of the mesa pkg

Pre-built binary ISOs

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As this is an interim release for primary popular CPU architectures, please refer to the previous yearly major 24.12 release for even more CPU architectures.

ArchitectureLibcCompilerOptimizationVersionSizeDownload
alphaGlibc 2.41GCC 14.2ev5625.4794 MB base-wayland
armv6Glibc 2.41GCC 14.2armv625.41654 MB base-wayland
arm64Glibc 2.41GCC 14.225.41926 MB base-wayland
hppa64/32*Glibc 2.41GCC 14.225.41114 MB base-desktop
i586Glibc 2.41GCC 14.2i58625.41897 MB base-wayland
ia64Glibc 2.41GCC 14.2itanium225.4976 MB base-desktop
mips64/32*Glibc 2.41GCC 14.2r500025.41721 MB base-wayland
ppcGlibc 2.41GCC 14.260325.41638 MB base-wayland
ppc64/32*Glibc 2.41GCC 14.2power425.41520 MB base-wayland
ppc64/le†Glibc 2.41GCC 14.2power825.41862 MB base-wayland
riscv64Glibc 2.41GCC 14.225.41850 MB base-wayland
sparc64Glibc 2.41GCC 14.2ultrasparc325.41044 MB base-wayland
sparc64/32*Glibc 2.41GCC 14.225.4827 MB base-wayland
x86-64Glibc 2.41Clang 20.1nocona25.41845 MB base-wayland
x86-64Glibc 2.41GCC 14.2nocona25.42001 MB base-wayland
x86-64Musl 1.2.5GCC 14.2nocona25.41749 MB base-wayland
x86-64Musl 1.2.5Clang 20.1/td>nocona25.41633 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.