24.6 Changes
The release contains a total of 606 changesets, including approximately 750 package updates, 67 issues fixed, 80 packages or features added, 21 removed and about 9 other improvements.
The CI unit-testsuite was expanded to also cover the whole installation, including partitioning and booting into the installed system before release.
User visible
- LLVM/Clang 18.1.6
- GCC 13.3.0
- Linux 6.9.3
- more SPIRV tools by default
- ships LibreOffice, Wine and Thunderbird by default
- vastly improved OpenSSL performance on IA-64
- added support to also install into free storage space
- fixed minimal installation and added minimal w/o Xorg option
- built-in network configuration support for WPA
- more icons and a t2 wallpaper are installed by default as well as SVG support
Developer visible
- shorter src. build-id and just objs to avoid hitting PATH_MAX building qt6webengine
- ISO default -sha length to 256
- new scripts/Create-Pkg to make new pkg creation even easier
Known Issues
Due to the nature of all cross compiled base install ISOs, gobject-introspection is not installed by default and some packages need to be natively, locally rebuilt for some advanced gnome-desktop packages.