In August, we held offline community events, which brought us a lot of valuable feedback. Packaging continued to progress steadily, with fixes on the riscv64 architecture and preparations for the LoongArch port.

Image Updates

• liveimage-standard profile is now available on riscv64.
• jade and jade-gui installer are now integrated in liveimage-desktop images.
• Low memory mode is introduced for devices with low RAM.

Package Highlights

195 PRs merged in total during August 2024. See a full list here.

Kernel

• linux 6.10.6
• kernels for aarch64 and riscv64 are provided without compression to support limine

Toolchain / Programming Languages

• llvm now supports LoongArch target
• rust 1.80.1 is finally bootstrapped and available on riscv64 with multiple fixes.
• go 1.23.0
• slibtool 0.6.0 is now default libtool for eweOS
• mold 2.33.0
• pacman now provides RUST{ARCH,HOST} for better multiarch support

Utils

• android-tools 35.0.1 (New)
• dinit-services 20240802.1 (New) is splitted out from dinit.
• busybox 1.36.1-27 now supports -S option for modprobe
• inotify-tools 4.23.9.0 (New)
• bash 5.2.32
• namcap 3.5.2 (New)
• socat 1.8.0.1
• avrdude 8.0

Libraries

• gstreamer 1.24.7 (New)
• xcurcommon 0.0.3 (New) is splitted from X11 to provide support for legacy cursors without X11
• boost 1.86.0
• freetype2 2.13.3
• opencc 1.1.9
• ffmpeg 7.0.2
• glib 2.82.0

Bootloaders

• limine 7.13.2 with a grub-like installer

Desktop

• mesa 24.1.5
• flatpak 1.15.10
• openttd 14.1 (New)
• firefox 129.0
• Hyprland 0.42.0
• Pipewire 1.2.3
• foot 1.18.1

Misc

• Misc riscv64 package fixes, now 734/786 (approximately 93.4%) packages compared to x86_64 are available
• base 1-3 now provides base-baremetal group for easier installation.

More

• ...and more!

Infra

Build System

• We acquired a LoongArch 3A6000 motherboard, which will hit the shelves next month as a LoongArch build machine for eweOS.

Workflow

• Merge package info before uploading to provide a better organized json.
• Version bumping is now running inside eweOS container to take use of pacman vercmp.
• checksymdiff workflow is now fixed, namcap is called after packaging to line packages.
• Added /recheck command for telegram bot.
• ewe-pkgtool is ready to ease packaging workflow

Website

• Merged package info json is used to provide better performance of packages info page.

Repository

Current size of repositories:
14G     ./eweos
3.3G    ./eweos-images

Current size of snapshot repositories:
37G     ./eweos-snapshots
31G    ./eweos-images-snapshots

Community

• An initial attempt of eweOS stickerset is designed and printed, delivered in developers meetup.
• We had a community-wide vote on the arch name for LoongArch.

Regular Meeting