In December, eweOS solidified its progress with notable feature additions, comprehensive package updates, and strengthened multi-architecture support.

Image Updates

• Xfce and LXQt now replace Hyprland as optional profiles for live images, image generation workflow now builds the Xfce profile by default for desktop live images.
• loongarch64 now supports all live image profiles, ISOs are available in the repository

Package Highlights

501 PRs merged in total during November 2024. 61% (306) of them are automated

See a full list here.

There are 1211 packages on eweOS in total 1204 (99.4%) are available on aarch64 1172 (96.7%) are available on riscv64 1167 (96.3%) are available on loongarch64

Kernel

• linux 6.12.6 and verified working on LoongArch real hardware.

Toolchain / Programming Languages

• llvm 19.1.6
• perl with library path adjusted
• typst 0.12.0 (New)
• debugedit 5.1 (New)
• cmake 3.31.3
• meson 1.6.1
• mold 2.35.0
• go 1.23.4

Utils

• python-sphinx 8.1.3 (New)
• python-pip 24.3.1 (New)
• imagemagick 7.1.1.43 (New)
• fontforge 20230101 (New)
• sane 1.3.1 (New)
• neovim 0.10.3
• nano 8.3
• flashrom 1.5.1
• qemu 9.2.0

Libraries

• js128 128.5.2 with fixes for loongarch64
• boost 1.87.0
• mesa 24.3.2
• pyqt6 6.8.0 (New)
• openssh 9.9p1 (New)
• libjxl 0.11.1 (New)
• nodejs 23.4.0 with fixes for riscv64 and loongarch64
• pambase 20241203 (New) is introduced to manage pam config in a standalone package
• ncnn 20240820 (New) is now packaged, as required by our users.
• libseccomp is available on loongarch64 with test fixes
• protobuf 29.2
• curl 8.11.1
• ctags 6.1.20241208.0-1

Desktop

• firefox 133.0.3 is now built with python 3.13.1. system libraries and fixes for loongarch64 are also shipped.
• qgis 3.40.1 (New)
• merkaartor 0.20.0 (New)
• KDE Framework 6.9.0
• Xfce 4.20
• Xfce4 plugins (New)
• labwc 0.8.2
• gimp 3.0.0-RC2 is now fixed and verified to work in testing repo
• intel-media-driver (New) is now packaged for VAAPI-based hardware transcoding on Intel platforms.

Networking

• tor 0.4.8.13 (New)
• bird 3.0.0

Games

• luanti 5.10.0 (new) now replaces minetest

Misc

• limine 8.6.1 with loongarch64 support enabled

More

• ...and more!

Upstream

• Linux boot protocol support on LoongArch is implemented in Limine
• xdg-desktop-portal test fixes

Community

• Some new stickers have been designed and added to the artwork repository.
• A new version of the eweOS StickerSet has been designed and delivered for printing and will be distributed next month. The Telegram Stickerset has been updated as well.

Regular Meeting

No regular meeting at this month.

Gallery

• eweOS LoongArch64 running on Loongson 3A5000

• eweOS LoongArch64 running on QEMU

• eweOS AArch64 running on FT-D2000 laptop