During October and November, eweOS achieved Hyper-V boot support and demonstrated success on the T-Head TH1520. This period featured extensive updates, including Linux 6.17 and KDE 6.20, plus critical fixes for LoongArch and GTK4. The community welcomed new contributors while maintaining strong package parity across architectures.

New Features

• linux and linux-lts now boots on Hyper-V virtual machines. Thanks pizero (matrix account @pizero:mozilla.org) for testing.
• Vulkan backend is now available for GTK4
• dav1d's assembly-accelerated routines are enabled for loongarch64
• util-linux now links to libutmps to read/write UTMP database

New Packages

• 7zip 25.01, replacing the oboslete, inactive package p7zip
• OpenOCD 0.12.0, on-chip debugging and programming tool.
• xfel 1.3.3, 3rd-party flashing tool for Allwinner SoCs.

Bug Fixes

• glmark2-wayland now correctly loads libOpenGL.so and works.
• Installation path for libkmod is fixed
• Dependency to vulkan-icd-loader is correctly described for GTK4 to avoid unmet ELF symbols
• mimalloc now disables usage of LSE extension on aarch64, which isn't mandatory in eweOS aarch64 baseline, ARMv8.0a
• llvm-config now produces correct flags with --system-libs --link-static
• Unused runtime dependency to Python is dropped from Ninja
• busybox now doesn't override /etc/mdev.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, and /etc/sysctl.conf on upgrade

Key Upgrades

• linux 6.17.9
• linux-lts 6.12.58
• linux-firmware 20251111
• dinit 0.20.0
• Go 1.25.4
• NodeJS 25.2.1
• Rust 1.91.0
• Mesa 25.3.0
• Firefox 144.0.2
• Qt 6.10.0
• GTK4 4.20.3
• Hyprland 0.52.1
• LxQT 2.3.0
• labwc 0.9.2
• KDE Framework 6.20.0

New Contributors

WeirdGumi submitted the first PR to our kernel-config, welcome!

Upstream Contribution

• PATCH to fix BTF generation for LLVM-built RISC-V/PowerPC kernels
• musl compatibility improvements for OpenJPH
• Make glmark2 try loading libOpenGL.so on EGL platforms

Code Activity

• 156 pull requests are merged during October, 101 of them (64.7%) are automated
• 353 pull requests are merged during October, 191 of them (54.1%) are automated

Package Availability across Architectures

• 1362 packages are available on x86_64
• 1356 packages (99.6% compared to x86_64) are available on aarch64
• 1345 packages (98.8%) are available on riscv64
• 1336 packages (98.1%) are available on loongarch64

Repository

77G     .

65G     ./eweos
63G     ./eweos/main
16G     ./eweos/main/os/aarch64
17G     ./eweos/main/os/x86_64
15G     ./eweos/main/os/loongarch64
16G     ./eweos/main/os/riscv64
2.4G    ./eweos/testing
989M    ./eweos/testing/os/aarch64
1.2G    ./eweos/testing/os/x86_64
108K    ./eweos/testing/os/loongarch64
220M    ./eweos/testing/os/riscv64

6.2G    ./eweos-images