5.1 Varri (Long)

🪨 Long Release

This release is only available on Long (5) branches (sodalite/long-5/<arch>/<edition>).

You should opt to stick with the latest release on the Current branch and avoid sticking with an older version. However, if that release is causing problems (e.g. problematic drivers, outdated packages, update conflicts you are unwilling to resolve currently, etc.), 5.x will continue to be updated until its end-of-life. At that point, it is vital you update to a more modern version.

See README ➔ Branches ➔ Long for more information.

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✨ What's New?

• (#70) Fixed Inter font not showing up in various applications
• Various quality-of-life improvements backported from 6 Kutai

💥 Breaking Changes

Nothing. Tremendous!

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🫒 Branches

Long

Branch	Release	Version	Commit¹
sodalite/long-5/x86_64/desktop	Sodalite 5.1 Varri (Long)	5.1-23312.0	6fca127bd04df5355e9707f00523ef8bf42e43f5452c62ed9f3e7add99b718be

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¹ These commits may no longer be available on the build server after 30 days of this release (~8-Dec-2023)

6 Kutai

✨ What's New?

• Updated base to Fedora Linux 39²
  • Color Bash Prompt
  • Migrate NetworkManager ifcfg profiles to keyfile
  • IBus 1.5.29
  • Use Noto fonts for Indic (Indian language) scripts
  • Improve Default Font Handling with default-fonts metapackages
  • Golang 1.21
  • GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.2, binutils 2.40, glibc 2.38, gdb 13.2)
  • Allow Removal of tzdata
  • LLVM 17
  • Retire AWS CLI version 1 package awscli
  • No fedora-repos-modular in default installation
  • LIBFFI 34 static trampolines
  • Flatpaks without Modules
  • Perl 5.38
  • Increase vm.max_map_count value
  • Make Toolbx a release-blocking deliverable and have release-blocking test criteria
  • RPM 4.19
  • Changes of defaults in createrepo_c-1.0.0
  • MinGW toolchain update
  • Remove pam_console
  • Boost 1.81 upgrade
  • Python 3.12
  • SPDX License Phase 2
• (#70) Fixed Inter font not showing up in various applications

💥 Breaking Changes

Nothing. Zinger!

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🫒 Branches

Current

Branch	Release	Version	Commit¹
sodalite/current/x86_64/desktop	Sodalite 6 Kutai	6.0-23311.0	cacb027c1baea48e0fea973999f43fd057723c236c3ed0b0754eaa9628f6c13f

Long

Branch	Release	Version	Commit¹
sodalite/long-6/x86_64/desktop	Sodalite 6 Kutai (Long)	6.0-23311.0	ed93f049c18d9198a3f5467b300ad0c58d30b69f9f07f9ed928bb944f48d5f41

Next

Branch	Release	Version	Commit¹
sodalite/next/x86_64/desktop	Sodalite 6 Kutai (Next)	6.0-23311.0	029b79e1454c3df63e28183bed78f2bc4c2d33ecfae19276e864e0be72ab5929

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¹ These commits may no longer be available on the build server after 30 days of this release (~6-Dec-2023)

² Some of these changes may not be relevant to Sodalite

5 Iberia

🗑 Old Release

This is an old release, kept here for archival purposes. It is unlikely you can still pull this release or build it.

See latest for current release.

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✨ What's New?

• Updated base to Fedora Linux 38
  • Noto Fonts For Two Languages
  • Shorter Shutdown Timer
  • X Server Prohibits Byte-swapped Clients
  • GNU Toolchain Update (gcc 13.0, binutils 2.39, glibc 2.37, gdb 12.1)
  • Restore stricter SSH hostkeys permissions
  • GNU Make version 4.4
  • Golang 1.20
  • LLVM 16
  • Rpmautospec by Default
  • Reproducible builds: Clamp build mtimes to $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
  • Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags
  • Ruby 3.2
  • Rpm Sequoia
  • Unified Kernel Support Phase 1
  • Pcre Deprecation
  • z13 as the Baseline for IBM Z Hardware
  • Unfiltered Flathub
  • Perl: Replace versioned MODULE_COMPAT_ requires by RPM dependency generator
  • MAC Address Policy none
  • Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer and -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer to default compilation flags
  • RPM Macros for Build Flags
  • Build all JDKs in Fedora against in-tree libraries and with static stdc++lib
• (#63) Default to unified core
  • Attempting to build without unified core (--ex-no-unified-core) will fail past (and including) this version

💥 Breaking Changes

Nothing. Woop!

4.2 Bantu

🗑 Old Release

This is an old release, kept here for archival purposes. It is unlikely you can still pull this release or build it.

See latest for current release.

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✨ What's New?

• Added more edge-cases for hostname migration
  • The hostname will be set as sodalite-XXXXXX (from the migration service — sodalite-migrate.service) if the current hostname is set to:
    • fedora (default for Fedora Silverblue)
    • localhost
    • (empty)
• Added RPM Fusion (free and non-free) RPM repositories
• Various other quality-of-life improvements

💥 Breaking Changes

Nothing. Yay!

4.1 Toniki

🗑 Old Release

This is an old release, kept here for archival purposes. It is unlikely you can still pull this release or build it.

See latest for current release.

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✨ What's New?

• Improved Flatpak remote enabling during migration
• Added channel branch to appropriate fields in os-release
• Added nudo ("Normal User Do") CLI tool
  • Acting as an opposite of sudo, this allows calling commands as the normal user ($SUDO_USER) from sudo
• Improved build/release process of Sodalite
  • Because of this, it was deemed necessary to release another version of Sodalite in such a short space of time since 4 Nubia

💥 Breaking Changes

Nothing. Phew!

4 Nubia

🗑 Old Release

This is an old release, kept here for archival purposes. It is unlikely you can still pull this release or build it.

See latest for current release.

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✨ What's New?

• Initial release with new versioning scheme!
• (#32) Fixed file choosers to use Pantheon's file chooser
• New web plugin for rocks.sodalite.hacks
  • Allows for the installation (or un-installation) of Web (Epiphany) — see --help for more
  • Replaces flatpak plugin

💥 Breaking Changes

• No further updates for f36 versions (sodalite/f36/<arch>/<variant>), but will continue to be built on the OSTree remote until it reaches EoL