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NEWS - Archive index

  • 01.04.2025 - Introducing Void Linux: Enterprise Edition

  • 02.02.2025 - February 2025 Image Release: Arm64 Extravaganza

  • 29.09.2024 - Goodbye, Python 2! Hello, New Buildbot!

  • 12.07.2024 - Welcome a New Contributor!

  • 14.03.2024 - March 2024 Image Release (and Raspberry Pi 5 support)

  • 22.01.2024 - Changes to xbps-src Masterdir Creation and Use

  • 22.01.2024 - Welcome New Contributors!

  • 04.01.2024 - glibc 2.38 Update Issues and Solutions

  • 24.10.2023 - Changes to Repository Sync

  • 07.10.2023 - Changes to Python 3 and pip on Void

  • 30.08.2023 - Changes to Container Images

  • 21.07.2023 - Infrastructure Week - Day 5: Making Distributed Infrastructure Work for Distributed Teams

  • 20.07.2023 - Infrastructure Week - Day 4: Downtime Both Planned and Not

  • 19.07.2023 - Infrastructure Week - Day 3: Are We Down?

  • 18.07.2023 - Infrastructure Week - Day 2: What Do We Do With Our Infrastructure?

  • 17.07.2023 - Infrastructure Week - Day 1: What is Infrastructure?

  • 09.07.2023 - New Images! (July 2023 Edition)

  • 30.05.2023 - Breaking changes: Pipewire session manager switch, Pipewire and PulseAudio system service removal

  • 11.02.2023 - New Repo: Fastly CDN

  • 11.02.2023 - New utility for selecting XBPS mirrors

  • 09.02.2023 - Minor breaking change in service logging for several packages

  • 19.01.2023 - Void Accepted to Fastly Fast Forward!

  • 01.12.2022 - US Mirror Issues

  • 16.10.2022 - New Images! (October 2022 Edition)

  • 30.09.2022 - Hacktoberfest 2022

  • 27.05.2022 - New Mirror Default

  • 03.10.2021 - US Mirror Retirement

  • 23.09.2021 - Hacktoberfest 2021

  • 03.09.2021 - DigitalOcean Renews Sponsorship

  • 17.07.2021 - Repository Signing Disruption

  • 26.05.2021 - Void Linux freenode Channels Have Been Hijacked

  • 21.05.2021 - IRC network switch to Libera

  • 27.03.2021 - In memoriam pullmoll

  • 05.03.2021 - Friday in the Void: OpenSSL and Kernel Hardening

  • 23.02.2021 - Switching back to OpenSSL

  • 18.02.2021 - New Images!

  • 18.01.2021 - Upcoming glibc upgrade requires updates for other packages on 32-bit machines

  • 11.12.2020 - Upcoming PAM upgrade requires review of custom configurations

  • 21.11.2020 - Passwords generated with previous versions of rclone might be unsafe

  • 01.10.2020 - Hacktoberfest and Void Linux

  • 01.05.2020 - Welcome New Contributors!

  • 24.04.2020 - Some Context for Recent Events

  • 20.02.2020 - OpenSSH 8.2 update requires restart of sshd

  • 30.01.2020 - News about XBPS

  • 19.01.2020 - New images and new verification keys

  • 13.08.2019 - xbps bug results in missing /bin/sh

  • 20.06.2019 - XBPS 0.54 Released

  • 01.04.2019 - New Homepage

  • 12.02.2019 - VoidLinux.eu Is Not Ours

  • 03.02.2019 - Cross compilation support for gobject typelibs

  • 03.02.2019 - The Life of a Pull Request & Where Commit Bits Come From

  • 31.01.2019 - The curious case of Python and global variables

  • 23.01.2019 - dhcpcd>=7.1.0 update may require manual intervention

  • 24.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 24: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

  • 24.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 24: gromit-mpx

  • 24.12.2018 - Void Linux at 35c3

  • 23.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 23: extrace

  • 22.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 22: autossh

  • 21.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 21: fex

  • 20.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 20: xsnow

  • 19.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 19: upx

  • 18.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 18: sc

  • 17.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 17: qrencode

  • 16.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 16: darkhttpd

  • 15.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 15: wgetpaste

  • 14.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 14: macchanger

  • 13.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 13: feh

  • 12.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 12: redshift

  • 11.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 11: gopass

  • 10.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 10: nload

  • 09.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 9: mdbook

  • 08.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 8: ipcalc

  • 07.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 7: scrot

  • 06.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 6: xlunch

  • 05.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 5: surf

  • 04.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 4: pwgen

  • 03.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 3: ncdu

  • 02.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 2: sshfs

  • 01.12.2018 - The Advent of Void: Day 1: tcc

  • 12.11.2018 - New images now available!

  • 05.11.2018 - The forum is Down

  • 01.09.2018 - Default Repositories at new Address

  • 30.07.2018 - XBPS 0.53 released

  • 03.06.2018 - GitHub Organisation is moving

  • 02.05.2018 - regained control of IRC

  • 01.05.2018 - Serious Issues

  • 30.04.2018 - XBPS 0.52 is out

  • 01.04.2018 - My Little Void

  • 25.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 25: ponysay

  • 24.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 24: snooze

  • 23.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 23: ledger

  • 22.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 22: QDirStat

  • 21.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 21: neatvi

  • 20.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 20: shmux

  • 19.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 19: mblaze part 2

  • 18.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 18: mblaze

  • 17.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 17: dstat

  • 16.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 16: pv

  • 15.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 15: an

  • 14.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 14: PAmix and pulsemixer

  • 13.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 13: ncdu

  • 12.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 12: xpra

  • 11.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 11: fatrace

  • 10.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 10: dvtm

  • 09.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 9: zutils

  • 08.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 8: dtach

  • 07.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 7: mosh

  • 06.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 6: jq

  • 05.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 5: perl-Math-Prime-Util

  • 04.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 4: containers

  • 03.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 3: ministat

  • 02.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 2: taskwarrior and friends

  • 01.12.2017 - The Advent of Void: Day 1: gcal

  • 13.07.2017 - Wiki Cleanup

  • 14.04.2017 - Flatpak

  • 01.04.2017 - We care about your needs

  • 09.03.2017 - Gnome 3.22 has landed!

  • 09.11.2016 - Mate-1.16 and Cinnamon-3.2

  • 29.09.2016 - LXQt 0.11 now available!

  • 17.09.2016 - aarch64 support has landed!

  • 31.08.2016 - We Love Your Privacy: repo.voidlinux.eu as tor hidden service

  • 03.04.2016 - Void Linux featured German Linux User Magazin

  • 31.03.2016 - LibreSSL 2.3 has landed!

  • 24.12.2015 - Happy Holidays!

  • 23.12.2015 - Void Linux at the 32c3

  • 12.12.2015 - XBPS 0.51 is out

  • 10.11.2015 - Announcing the new Wiki and Forums

  • 10.11.2015 - XBPS 0.50 is out

  • 07.11.2015 - MATE Desktop 1.12 now available!

  • 02.11.2015 - LXQt 0.10 now available!

  • 31.10.2015 - XBPS 0.49 is out

  • 30.10.2015 - XBPS 0.48 is out

  • 29.09.2015 - GNOME 3.18 now available!

  • 18.07.2015 - XBPS 0.47 is out

  • 03.07.2015 - /usr/sbin as symlink transition completed

  • 24.06.2015 - XBPS 0.46 is out

  • 15.06.2015 - New images now available… and now with musl!

  • 05.06.2015 - GNOME 3.16 now available!

  • 03.06.2015 - XBPS 0.45 is out

  • 29.04.2015 - ARM USB armory platform support

  • 21.03.2015 - XBPS 0.44.1 is out

  • 06.03.2015 - XBPS 0.44 is out

  • 22.02.2015 - Raspberry Pi 2 platform support

  • 21.02.2015 - New x86 live images

  • 31.12.2014 - XBPS 0.43 is out

  • 29.12.2014 - Void Linux 31c3 talk

  • 22.12.2014 - XBPS 0.42 is out

  • 05.12.2014 - ARM BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black platform support

  • 03.12.2014 - New x86 live image flavours: E19, Mate and XFCE

  • 03.11.2014 - LXQt 0.8.0 Desktop Environment now available

  • 19.10.2014 - GRUB not part of base-system anymore

  • 29.09.2014 - XBPS 0.41 is out

  • 18.09.2014 - XBPS 0.40 is out

  • 15.09.2014 - XBPS 0.39 is out

  • 02.09.2014 - MATE desktop 1.8.1 now available

  • 06.08.2014 - KDE SC 4.13.3 now available

  • 06.08.2014 - LibreSSL enabled by default

  • 29.07.2014 - runit enabled by default

  • 06.06.2014 - XBPS 0.37 is out

  • 05.05.2014 - New package repositories

  • 21.04.2014 - XBPS 0.36 is out

  • 18.04.2014 - Multilib support becomes a reality

  • 01.04.2014 - The Void Linux distribution is dead (BSD is dying too)

  • 01.04.2014 - XBPS 0.35 is out

  • 28.03.2014 - GNOME 3.12 now available!

  • 26.03.2014 - XBPS 0.34 is out

  • 11.03.2014 - XBPS 0.33 is out

  • 06.03.2014 - Valve’s steam client now available for x86_64

  • 21.02.2014 - XBPS 0.32 is out

  • 01.02.2014 - XBPS 0.31 is out

  • 01.02.2014 - New XBPS official repositories

  • 28.01.2014 - XBPS 0.30 is out

  • 27.01.2014 - Odroid U2/U3 is now a supported platform

  • 27.01.2014 - Cubieboard2 is now a supported platform

  • 23.01.2014 - Platform naming rules have been changed

  • 17.01.2014 - Using the Nix package manager

  • 09.01.2014 - xbps-src: building packages against the musl C library

  • 09.01.2014 - XBPS 0.29 released

  • 03.01.2014 - Create your own XBPS repositories!

  • 03.01.2014 - XBPS 0.28.1 released

  • 02.01.2014 - XBPS API example: list installed pkgs (emulating pacman -Q)

  • 30.12.2013 - XBPS API example: list pkgs in a repo (emulating pacman -Sl repo)

  • 29.12.2013 - XBPS API example: list pkgs by maintainer in repos

  • 17.12.2013 - KDE 4.11.4 now available

  • 16.12.2013 - Cinnamon 2.x desktop now available

  • 09.12.2013 - E18 RC1 has been pushed to the official repository

  • 02.12.2013 - Mesa update to 10.0 and Software OpenGL

  • 02.12.2013 - gvfs plugins split

  • 29.11.2013 - XBPS 0.27 released

  • 11.11.2013 - base-system-0.76 replaces base-system-rpi

  • 30.10.2013 - New group from base-files 0.92

  • 05.07.2013 - New XBPS 0.25 repository format

  • 20.05.2013 - GNU libc locales disabled by default

  • 27.03.2013 - Switch to systemd-journal group

  • 05.03.2013 - New XBPS pkgdb 0.21 metadata format

  • 25.02.2013 - New users/groups from base-files 0.81

  • 20.02.2013 - Switch to util-linux kill(1) and procps-ng uptime(1)

  • 16.11.2012 - Full switch to journald

  • 05.10.2012 - Upgrading to base-files-0.76

  • 05.10.2012 - xbps-src switch to linux-user-chroot


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