T2 SDE Release 25.10

25.10 "Never Obsolete" Changes

The release contains a total of 6535 changesets, including approximately 7638 package updates, 717 fixed issues,D packages or features added and 229 removed as well as about 62 other improvements.

Thousands of vintage, retro and niche package updates make this release one of the most up-to-date Linux distributions.

User visible

GCC 15.2, LLVM/Clang 20.1.8
Glibc 2.42, Musl 1.2.5, uClibC 1.0.54
Linux 6.16.10, Mesa 25.1.9
OpenJDK
initial support for Qualcomm X1-Elite ARM64 SoCs
halt now halts and returns to OpenFirmware while only poweroff turns the system off
thousands of update & fixes even for niche and vintage packages
thousands of optional dependencies for a better source install experience
hundreds of newly added packages
ships w/ mesa-legacy for older 3d acceleration
Firefox & Thunderbird fixed for most 32-bit and big-endian RISC targets
cross compiled GDB fixed to load shared-libray symbols
iproute2 vlan works for LTO enabled builds
improved build time esimate for SMT systems

Developer visible

unify .conf code into .desc
globally clean quotes and white-space

Pre-built binary ISOs

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Architecture	Libc	Compiler	Optimization	Version	Size	Download
alpha	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	ev56	25.10	1192 MB	base-wayland
arc	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	282 MB	base
arm64	Glibc 2.42	Clang 20.1.8		25.10	1905 MB	base-wayland
arm64	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	2159 MB	base-wayland
arm64	Musl 1.2.5	GCC 15.2		25.10	1916 MB	base-wayland
armv6	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	armv6	25.10	1833 MB	base-wayland
armv6eb‡	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	armv6	25.10	1441 MB	base-wayland
hppa	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	1533 MB	base-wayland
hppa64/32^*	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	1410 MB	base-wayland
i486	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	i486	25.10	2055 MB	base-wayland
i786	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	i686+sse2	25.10	2082 MB	base-wayland
ia64	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	itanium2	25.10	1400 MB	base-wayland
loongarch64	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	1645 MB	base-wayland
m68k	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	68020	25.10	1074 MB	base-wayland
microblaze	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	574 MB	base
mips	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	mips4	25.10	1514 MB	base-wayland
mips64	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	r5000	25.10	1963 MB	base-wayland
mipsel†	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	mips32r2	25.10	1817 MB	base-wayland
nios2	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	430 MB	base
ppc	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	603	25.10	1887 MB	base-wayland
ppc64	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	power4	25.10	2073 MB	base-wayland
ppc64/32^*	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	970	25.10	2073 MB	base-wayland
ppc64le†	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	power8	25.10	2069 MB	base-wayland
riscv	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	1374 MB	base-wayland
riscv64	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	2050 MB	base-wayland
s390x	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	arch9	25.10	1818 MB	base-wayland
sparc	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	v8	25.10	528 MB	base-xorg
sparc64	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	ultrasparc3	25.10	1275 MB	base-wayland
sparc64/32^*	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2		25.10	890 MB	base-wayland
superh	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	sh4	25.10	801 MB	base-xorg
x32^*	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	nocona	25.10	1674 MB	base-wayland
x86-64	Glibc 2.42	Clang 20.1.8	nocona	25.10	2088 MB	base-wayland
x86-64	Glibc 2.42	GCC 15.2	nocona	25.10	2129 MB	base-wayland
x86-64	Musl 1.2.5	GCC 15.2	nocona	25.10	2006 MB	base-wayland
x86-64	Musl 1.2.5	Clang 20.1.8	nocona	25.10	1872 MB	base-wayland

^*64-bit OS kernel, 32-bit user-space
^†little-endian variant
^‡big-endian variant

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.