Latest releases

This release presents the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 143.0.7499.40-1) as well as an upgrade of the home-brew software displaying mountable devices and managing their mounting. In addition, Starbuntu now offers an upgrade of its authentication app.... Read more

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.23.0, the first release in the v3.23 stable series. Version 3 of apk is now ready for Alpine 3.23.0. This should be a safe and seamless upgrade from version 2, but might have breaking changes if you use libapk. The package manager has been upg... Read more

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the stable/15 branch. Some of the highlights: the FreeBSD base system can now be installed and managed using the pkg(8) package manager; the FreeBSD 15.0 release artifac... Read more

This release enters the latest Linux kernel family 6.14 presenting the version 6.14.0-36. Further it presents the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 142.0.7444.175-1). In addition, Starbuntu has improved its upgrade software.... Read more

This release advances Armbian on three fronts: more boards now run on mainline-based firmware with BTRFS boot support; hardware coverage has grown significantly across multiple vendors; and the build framework has been upgraded with mmdebstrap, the lowmem extension, first-boot configuration injectio... Read more

This is our seventh release this year, bringing better accessibility, changes to mkinitcpio, and more. First, we are pleased to bring Orca and espeak-ng to the ISO image and installer. This adds crucial support for users with visual impairments, helping them navigate the CachyOS installation process... Read more

We are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 25.11 Xantusia. NixOS is a Linux distribution. Its underlying package repository Nixpkgs can also be used on other Linux systems and macOS with the Nix package manager. This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven mo... Read more

The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived. The live environment and the offline installer ship with Calamares 25.11.1.9, Firefox 145.0.1. Linux 6.17.8, Mesa 25.2.7, X.Org Server 21.1.20, nvidia-utils 580.105.08. NVIDIA support has been significantly improved. Previously, the ISO image always inclu... Read more

In October, we made the jump to a new epoch, the final chapter of our Usr-Merge saga. With the new epoch, we started using a new package repository, named Polaris, after the North Star. This unlocked our ability to remove Usr-Merge compatibility symbolic links from packages, update our systemd packa... Read more

As always, the new major release has some new features. Support for webcam devices has been greatly improved (via Zbar and V4L2 Viewer). Old (yet still quite useful) EmelFM2 file manager as well as uHexen2 (port of Raven Software's Hexen II source) have been added. GPAC (multimedia framework) is now... Read more