In September, eweOS saw significant strides in package updates and system improvements, further solidifying its robust development and user engagement efforts.

Image Updates

• limine 8.x is adapted on live images

Package Highlights

405 PRs merged in total during September 2024. 45.6%(185) of them are automated

See a full list here.

Kernel

• linux 6.11
• linux-lts 6.6.52
• cdrom driver is now enabled by default in all architectures
• NLS configs are enabled and set up in kernel config

Toolchain / Programming Languages

• ghc is now available on aarch64
• cabal is now available on aarch64
• mold 2.34.0, now patched to have 1MiB PT_GNU_STACK to prevent overflow during linking
• go 1.23.1
• cbindgen0.27.0

Utils

• dinit early services are now idempotent for soft-reboot
• dinit 0.19.0, wrapper removed
• dinit services are now adapted to standard directories, all service files in repository are now updated
• qemu-user-static 9.1.0 (New)
• binfmt-manager 20240915 (New)
• minicom 2.9 (New)
• mpd 0.23.15 (New)
• mpc 0.35 (New)
• ncmpc 0.49 (New)
• bash 5.2.37
• busybox 1.37.0, modinfo command now supports -k option
• shellcheck 0.10.0 (New)
• pacman 7.0.0
• nano 8.2

Libraries

• minizip-ng 4.0.7 is now default minizip implementation
• bluez 5.77.1 (New)
• wlroots0.18 and wlroots0.17 are splitted into two packages
• openssl is now enabled for ffmpeg to support network streaming in ffmpeg
• soup and mp3lame are now enabled in gstreamer to support network streaming of mp3 music
• mesa 24.2.1, libGLX is now enabled without X to provide compatibility for OpenGL

Desktop

• gsettings-desktop-schemas got gsettings-system-schemas splitted
• kdenlive 24.08.1 (New)
• KDE Framework packages and QT 6.7.2 (New)
• wcm 0.9.0 (New)
• firefox 13.0.1
• netease-cloud-music-gtk 2.4.1 (New)
• kwallet 6.6.0 (New)
• wayfire 0.9.0
• wf-shell 0.8.1 (New)
• nwg-hello 0.2.4 (New)
• gnome-keyring 46.2 (New)
• fractal 8 (New)
• telegram-desktop 5.5.5
• hyprland 0.43.0
• niri 0.1.8 (New)
• xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 0.7.1 (New)
• xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.15.1
• ffmpeg with openssl enabled
• mpvpaper 1.7 (New)
• labwc 0.8.0 (New)
• wlroots 0.18 (New)
• wine 9.16 (New)
• waylyrics 0.3.13 (New)

Misc

• /opt directory is now present in filesystem by default

More

• ...and more!

Infra

Build System

• We opened up SSH access to all build machines to developers
• LoongArch 3A6000 motherboard is now on the rack and in the build system

Workflow

• CI build matrix is now generated dynamically to reduce builds for arch-limited or arch-independent(any) packages

Website

• Bot command for package upgrade is now available by simply clicking on the labels

Repository

Current size of repositories:
15G     ./eweos
3.4G    ./eweos-images

Current size of snapshot repositories:
61G     ./eweos-snapshots
33G     ./eweos-images-snapshots

Community

• Some acrylic keychains for eweOS have been made and will be distributed at future offline events.

Regular Meeting

No regular meeting at this month!