2025-02-02

Feburary 2025 Image Release: Arm64 Extravaganza

We’re pleased to announce that the 20250202 image set has been promoted to current and is now generally available.

You can find the new images on our downloads page and on our many mirrors.

This release introduces support for several arm64 UEFI devices:

• Apple Silicon
• Lenovo Thinkpad X13s
• Pinebook Pro

Live ISOs for aarch64 and aarch64-musl should also support other arm64 devices that support UEFI and can run a mainline (standard) kernel.

Additionally, this image release includes:

• Linux 6.12 in live ISOs
• Xfce 4.20 in xfce-flavored live ISOs
• Linux 6.6.69 in Raspberry Pi PLATFORMFSes and images
• xgenfstab, a new script from xtools to simplify generation of /etc/fstab for chroot installs

and the following changes:

• Fixed issue where systems with Nvidia graphics cards would not boot without nomodeset (void-packages #52545)
• Added a bootloader menu entry to disable graphics by setting nomodeset (void-mklive 380f0fd)
• Added additional hotkeys in the bootloader menu. See the handbook for a full listing (void-mklive 380f0fd)
• Raspberry Pi platform images are now smaller by default, but will grow the root partition to fit the storage device upon first boot using growpart. See the handbook for more details (void-mklive #379)
• void-installer now includes a post-installation menu to enable services on the installed system (void-mklive #389)
• rpi-aarch64 and rpi-aarch64-musl PLATFORMFSes and platform images should now support the recently-released Raspberry Pi 500 and CM5.

You may verify the authenticity of the images by following the instructions in the handbook, and using the following minisign key information:

untrusted comment: minisign public key 4D56E70F102AF9F9
RWT5+SoQD+dWTeOdNuc4Q/jq2+3+jpql7+JJp4WukkxTdpsZlk2EGuPj