eweOS | 2024.10 Progress Report

In October, eweOS continued its development with substantial system enhancements, package updates, and expanded community outreach, demonstrating its commitment to versatility and efficiency.

Image Updates

loongarch64 is now supported for tarball generation.

Package Highlights

307 PRs merged in total during October 2024. 35.5%(109) of them are automated

See a full list here.

Kernel

linux 6.11.3
linux-lts 6.6.58
zstd compression of firmware is now enabled.
disabled ikheaders to fix build failures.
loongarch64 support is introduced

Toolchain / Programming Languages

llvm is now splitted into more sub-packages
rust 1.82.0
cmake 3.30.5
meson 1.6.0
wine 9.20

Utils

tinc 1.0.36 (New)
vnstat 2.12 (New)
vulkan-tools 1.3.290 (New)
networkmanager 1.48.10 (New)
mercurial 6.8.2
qemu 9.1.1
texlive-bin 20240312 (New)

texlive demo

Libraries

poppler 24.09.0 (New)
gd 2.3.3 (New)
fontconfig: added a hook to rebuild font cache
mesa: enable and split panfrost driver
opencv 4.10.1 (New)
js128 128.3.1 (New)
gjs 1.82.0 (New)
python-numpy 2.1.2 (New)
openssl 3.4.0

opencv demo

Desktop

gnome-terminal 3.54.0 (New)
gnome-sound-recorder 42.0 (New)
adw-gtk-theme 5.5 (New)
firefox 131.0.3
sway 1.10
foot 1.19.0

Games

minetest 5.9.1 (New)

minetest demo

Misc

loongarch64 arch is added to PKGBUILDs in repositories partially, 647/1011(63.9%) of them got built successfully.

...and more!

Infra

Build System

loongarch64 is now added to the build system and enabled in main projects.

Workflow

rollmeow 0.2.3
ewe-pkgtool 0.3.0

Website

loongarch64 is now added to package info page

Repository

41G    ./eweos
135G   ./eweos-snapshots

3.3G   ./eweos-images
73G    ./eweos-images-snapshots

Upstream

fixed a bug of filelisting in Open Build Service
get unsupported arch excluded in Open Build Service
Fix building with LLVM on loongarch64 for gc

Community

eweOS is now mirrored and hosted on mirror of Shandong University of Science and Technology

Regular Meeting

No regular meeting at this month!