In August and September, eweOS progressed steadily with extensive package upgrades, porting of GHC to RISC-V and major new packages like KiCAD. The project's reach also grew with the addition of new community mirrors, fueled by new contributors and consistent upstream contributions.

Statistics for 2025.08

352 PRs merged in total during August 2025. 77.8% (274) of them are automated

See a full list here.

Statistics for 2025.09

220 PRs merged in total during September 2025. 83% (183) of them are automated

See a full list here.

There are 1352 packages on eweOS x86_64 in total

• 1346 (99.6%) are available on aarch64
• 1332 (98.5%) are available on riscv64
• 1320 (97.6%) are available on loongarch64

Package Highlights

Kernel

• linux 6.16.7
• linux-lts 6.12.47
• linux-firmware 20250917
• Now linux-uapi-headers replaces linux-headers and linux-lts-headers

Toolchain / Programming Languages

• GHC 9.6.4 is now available on riscv64. Thanks @definfo!
• racket 8.17 (New)
• chez-scheme 10.2.0 (New)
• wasi-related runtime now built separately from LLVM
• mold 2.40.4
• meson 1.9.0
• cmake 4.1.1
• Python 3.13.7
• Go 1.25.0
• nodejs 24.8.0
• Perl 5.42.0
• slibtool 0.7.4
• cython 3.1.4
• verilator 5.0.40

Utils

• KiCAD 9.0.4 (New)
• glmark2 2023.01 (New)
• nano 8.6
• vim 9.1.1593
• neovim 0.11.4
• emcas 30.2
• wine 10.15
• git 2.51.0
• graphviz 13.2.1
• strace 6.16
• shellcheck 0.11.0

Libraries

• mimalloc 2.2.4
• zlib-ng 2.2.5
• KDE Framework 6.17.0
• openssl 3.5.2
• glib 2.86.0
• curl 8.16.0
• gpgme 2.0.0
• harfbuzz 11.4.5
• libffi 3.5.2

Desktop

• Plasma 6.4.4
• labwc 0.9.1
• hyprland 0.51.0
• wayfire 0.10.0
• firefox 142.0.0
• fractal 12
• gtk4 4.20.1
• wxwidgets 3.2.8
• mesa 25.2.3
• wlroots 0.19.1
• glew 2.2.0

Multimedia

• intel-media-driver 25.3.3
• gstreamer 1.26.6
• pavucontrol 6.2
• pipewire 1.4.8

System Management

• modemmanager-qt 6.17.0 (New)
• modemmanager 1.24.2 (New)
• xfsprogs 6.15.0 (New)
• limine 9.6.1
• qemu 10.1.0
• podman 5.6.0
• lxc 6.0.5
• cups 2.4.14
• bluez 5.84
• btrfs-progs 6.16.1

Network

• ii 2.0 (New)
• caddy 1.10.2
• sing-box 1.12.8
• tor 0.4.8.18

Games

• wesnoth 1.19.14 (New)
• luanti 5.13.0

More

• ...and more!

Upstream Contribution

• We've caught and helped slibtool upstream to solve compatibility issues when merging LLVM-generated archives
• telegram-desktop: Fix compatibility for GLib 2.86.0 or later
• A draft PR for using .SRCINFO in Open Build Service is now present to upstream

Infra

• There are two new eweOS community mirrors available
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Communication University of China (FMA)

Workflow

• bump_ver workflow now checks duplication
• check_symdiff workflow now checks only libraries ends with .so
• pr_check workflow now won't run check_symdiff on any packages
• info_pkgs workflow now supports packages with multiple groups
• check_symdiff workflow is now not required for PR approval
• Workflow triggerd by telegram bot now shows the username of chatter

Website

• groups fields are now shown at package info page

Repo

Current size of repositories:

75G     .

63G     ./eweos
61G     ./eweos/main
16G     ./eweos/main/os/x86_64
16G     ./eweos/main/os/aarch64
16G     ./eweos/main/os/riscv64
15G     ./eweos/main/os/loongarch64
2.4G    ./eweos/testing
1.2G    ./eweos/testing/os/x86_64
991M    ./eweos/testing/os/aarch64
220M    ./eweos/testing/os/riscv64
108K    ./eweos/testing/os/loongarch64

6.0G    ./eweos-images

Community

• Thanks definfo for backporting riscv64 NCG support to GHC 9.6.7 as the task of OSPP.
• Thanks 白日梦主义 and Avrova Donz for mirroring eweOS repository!
• There are three new contributors during this period,
  • definfo
  • aisuneko
  • rmolive
  • Welcome!

Gallery

• experimental KDE environment on eweOS (by YukariChiba)

• GHCi running on eweOS riscv64 (by Yao Zi)

Regular Meeting

No regular meeting at August or September.