Image Updates

• ISO is now generated with uefi/mbr hybrid support with cd profile of limine
• More firmwares are included in liveimage-desktop images
• Remove linux kernel from tarball
• doas can now be an alternative for sudo in image creation
• Added liveimage-standard to provide light desktop live experience

Package Highlights

163 PRs merged in total during June 2024. See a full list here.

Kernel

• linux 6.9.3

Toolchain / Programming Languages

• llvm 18.1.7 is also presented in riscv64, with bug fixes in crtbegin.o
• Linking failures for multiple packages in riscv64 is now identified with issue of mold.
• Linking failures for llvm in riscv64 is now identified with issue of llvm. Patch is submitted.
• gdb is temporary packaged in testing repo since lldb-server is now available in riscv64
• go 1.22.4
• mold 2.32.0
• cmake 3.29.6
• patchelf 0.18.0

Utils

• qemu 9.0.0 (New)
• turnstile 0.1.8 (New) is now default desktop session manager and replaces dinit-userservd and pam_rundir
• catnest now reloads configs automatically when new config is installed
• qemu 9.0.0 (New)
• busybox now loads kernel modules correctly
• tinyramfs is now maintained in forked repo of eweOS
• tinyramfs now handles kernel arguments correctly and accept quiet and break arguments
• makepkg now warns about glibc in depends
• mesa-demos 9.0.0.r70 (New)
• gettext-tiny now handles po file better. Patch submitted to upstream.

Libraries

• openssl 3.0 transition, 3.3.1 is provided now
• mesa now is built with VA-API and vulkan drivers and splitted packages
• gtk3 3.24.42 with im module fix
• libgcrypt 1.11.0
• zlib-ng 2.2.0

Bootloaders

• limine now supports linux protocol for aarch64 and riscv64 (Submitted in upstream)
• bios / pxe / cd options are now fully enabled for limine
• limine-mkconfig is now rewritten to provide flexible config files

Desktop Applications

• compositors:
  • hyprland 0.41.1
• games:
  • supertux 0.6.3 (New)
  • supertuxkart 1.4 (New)
  • warzone2100 4.4.2 (New)
• text editors:
  • featherpad 1.5.1 (New)
  • mousepad 0.6.2 (New)
• image viewers:
  • fim 0.7.1 (New)
  • swayimg 2.2 (New)
• misc:
  • telegram-desktop 5.1.8

Server Applications

• nginx 1.27.0
• caddy 2.8.4

Misc

• All binary packages in riscv64 are now rebuilt against fixed llvm to avoid issues with broken crtbegin.o

More

• ...and more!

Infra

Website

• The homepage of eweOS is now fully rewritten with nuxt to provide better user experience. JavaScript is now optional for most pages.
• Blog of eweOS is now fully static to avoid API requests to GitHub.
• Traffic statistics of official repository servers are now visible in website.

Build System

• arch= field is now supported in build system to exclude package building
• Unused source package generation is now disabled to reduce build time

Repository

Current size of repositories:
11G     ./eweos
2.2G    ./eweos-images

• Added vnstati traffic statistics collecting for all official repository servers
• New aliases of official mirrors are assigned, and will be primary urls of repositores
  • os-repo-lu.ewe.moe
  • os-repo-cn.ewe.moe

Community

• eweOS repository is mirrored and hosted on Mirror of Nanjing University
• minecraft is verified to be able to be launched via flatpak
• We are going to have a talk on AOSCC 2024 about our packaging policies and development