25.9 Changes

The release contains a total of TBD changesets, including approximately TBD package updates, TBD fixed issues, TBD packages or features added and TBD removed as well as about TBD other improvements.

Thousands of vintage, retro and niche package updates make this release one of the most up-to-date Linux distributions. like more Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird for big-endian?

User visible

• GCC 15.2, LLVM/Clang 20.1.8
• Glibc 2.42, Musl 1.2.5, uClibC 1.0.54
• Linux 6.16.2, Mesa 25.2.1
• 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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Architecture	Libc	Compiler	Optimization	Version	Size	Download
alpha	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	ev56	25.4	794 MB	base-wayland
armv6	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	armv6	25.4	1654 MB	base-wayland
arm64	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2		25.4	1926 MB	base-wayland
hppa64/32*	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2		25.4	1114 MB	base-desktop
i586	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	i586	25.4	1897 MB	base-wayland
ia64	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	itanium2	25.4	976 MB	base-desktop
mips64/32*	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	r5000	25.4	1721 MB	base-wayland
ppc	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	603	25.4	1638 MB	base-wayland
ppc64/32*	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	power4	25.4	1520 MB	base-wayland
ppc64/le†	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	power8	25.4	1862 MB	base-wayland
riscv64	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2		25.4	1850 MB	base-wayland
sparc64	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	ultrasparc3	25.4	1044 MB	base-wayland
sparc64/32*	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2		25.4	827 MB	base-wayland
x86-64	Glibc 2.41	Clang 20.1	nocona	25.4	1845 MB	base-wayland
x86-64	Glibc 2.41	GCC 14.2	nocona	25.4	2001 MB	base-wayland
x86-64	Musl 1.2.5	GCC 14.2	nocona	25.4	1749 MB	base-wayland
x86-64	Musl 1.2.5	Clang 20.1/td>	nocona	25.4	1633 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.