Package Highlights

131 PRs merged in total during May 2024. See a full list here.

Kernel

• linux 6.9.2
• linux-lts 6.6.31 (New) We are now providing both latest stable and latest stable-lts kernels.

Toolchain / Programming Languages

• Another group of python packages.
• vala 0.56.17 (New)
• go 1.22.3. Go is available on riscv64 now.
• rust 1.78.0

Utils

• makepkg now defines JOBS to adjust parallelism
• tmux 3.4
• util-linux 2.40.1
• acpid service
• cups 2.4.8 (New) and related packages
• nmap 7.95 (New)

Libraries

• icu 75.1
• gettext-tiny 0.3.2.r4 (New) now replaces gettext
• ffmpeg 7.0
• ncurses 6.5
• libva 2.21.0 (New) and vaapi support for some packages
• openssl 3.3.0 and its transitions

Fonts

• Font package names now follow the format of font-{fontname} and provide fonts in the format of {ttf,otf}-{fontname}.

Desktop Applications

• Some GNOME applications
• Some packages for KDE Framework 6.1.0
• fcitx5-chinese-addons 5.1.4 (New) to support Chinese IME.
• telegram-desktop 5.0.1 (New)
• wayvnc 0.8.0 (New) to provide VNC support

More

• ...and more!

Infra

Workflow

• Added a workflow to bump pkgrel for packages and open PR automatically.
• Added a workflow to check diff in package files for PRs.
• Added a workflow to create a blank package branch, as a step to enforce PRs instead of direct commit to package repository.
• Packages from PR workflow are now uploaded as artifacts.
• Added auto approval for helper bot, and now two approvals (including one from helper bot) are required to merge a PR.

Build System

• Disable chained rebuild to ensure each rebuild is triggered by a new pkgrel.

Website

• Package list page is now optimized to provide lag-free experience.

Repository

    Current size of repositories:
    7.2G    ./eweos
    2.2G    ./eweos-images

• Images in repositories are now pulled periodically (once a week) from GitHub Actions.
• An oracle object storage is now deployed, serving eweOS images.

Community

• eweOS repository is mirrored and hosted on Mirror of Wuchang Shouyi University
• Telegram groups and channels are renamed and assigned with new logos. A new group is created for news of GitHub repositories. A new channel is created for news and updates.