To reduce installation size, firmware provided by linux-firmware is now compressed with zstd. Ensure you are running a supported kernel when updating to linux-firmware-20260309_1 or later: If you cannot run one of these kernels, you can hol…
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses must continuously innovate to remain competitive and drive growth. That is why we are thrilled to unveil our latest solution, Void Linux: Enterprise Edition. Leveraging cutting-edge techno…
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
At long last, Void is saying goodbye to Python 2. Python ended support for Python 2 in 2020, but Void still had over 200 packages that depended on it. Since then, Void contributors have updated, patched, or removed these packages. For the m…
The Void project is pleased to welcome aboard another new member, @tranzystorekk. Interested in seeing your name in a future update here? Read our Contributing Page and find a place to help out! New members are invited from the community of…
We’re pleased to announce that the 20240314 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. Some highlights of this release: rpi-aarch64* PLAT…
The Void project is pleased to welcome aboard 2 new members. Joining us to work on packages are @oreo639 and @cinerea0. Interested in seeing your name in a future update here? Read our Contributing Page and find a place to help out! New mem…
In an effort to simplify the usage of xbps-src, there has been a small change to how masterdirs (the containers xbps-src uses to build packages) are created and used. The default masterdir is now called masterdir-, except when masterdir alr…
With the update to glibc 2.38, libcrypt.so.1 is no longer provided by glibc. Libcrypt is an important library for several core system packages that use cryptographic functions, including pam. The library has changed versions, and the legacy…
Void is a complex system, and over time we make changes to reduce this complexity, or shift it to easier to manage components. Recently through the fantastic work of one of our maintainers classabbyamp our repository sync system has been dr…
This week we’ll be taking a look into the infrastructure that runs and operates Void. We’ll look at what we run, where it runs, and why it is setup the way it is. Overall at the end of the week you should have a better understanding of what…
In our last post we showed you how to quickly change your mirror using xmirror. In this post we’ll give you a reason to use it, and talk a little more about how mirrors work and how packages get from our servers, to your computer. Before we…