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This page lists all available news items for the main Gentoo ebuild repository (::gentoo); sometimes items do not affect a system because the relevant package is not installed or the news item only affects certain architecture(s).
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Published news items

Date Title
2024-09-29 Haskell destabilization
2024-08-31 KDE Plasma 6.1.4 and Gear 24.05.2 Upgrade
2024-08-09 dracut module config changes
2024-08-07 Gentoo drops IA-64 support
2024-06-05 Upgrading to TeX Live 2023
2024-05-17 Changes to dracut kernel module/microcode handling
2024-05-09 Python 3.12 to become the default on 2024-06-01
2024-05-07 dev-lang/perl useflags become a PERL_FEATURES use-expand
2024-05-06 media-video/wireplumber-0.5.2 may break on upgrade
2024-03-22 Profile upgrade to version 23.0 available
2024-02-26 installkernel is no longer implicitly installed
2024-02-01 GRUB upgrades
2024-01-30 installkernel new USE flag systemd-boot
2024-01-18 Merging of installkernel-gentoo and installkernel-systemd
2024-01-05 Separate /usr now requires an initramfs
2023-12-28 LXD to lose access for its image server
2023-11-20 CUPS no longer directly depends on its filters
2023-05-21 Plasma Profile to enable PipeWire, Wayland support
2023-05-11 OpenSSH directory configuration changes
2023-04-02 Python 3.11 to become the default on 2023-05-01
2023-01-28 Breaking changes to the RAP Prefix toolchain
2023-01-01 Hardened profiles improvements
2022-12-27 Introduction of app-alternatives ebuilds
2022-12-01 /usr merge for systemd users
2022-11-21 systemd-tmpfiles --clean enabled by default
2022-11-19 LVM2 default USE flag change
2022-07-29 PipeWire sound server migration
2022-06-26 Mu 1.7.23 Causing Maildir Corruption
2022-06-13 Python 3.10 to become the default on 2022-07-01
2022-05-23 Breaking configuration changes in borgmatic-1.6.0
2022-05-20 Migration to GLEP-81 enabled webservers
2022-04-19 Migration to sys-apps/systemd-utils
2022-04-17 sys-apps/systemd-utils update needed
2022-04-12 Sandbox issue with ccache 4.6
2022-03-30 Qt 5.15.3 version bump with binary path changes
2022-03-05 Transition from sys-cluster/singularity to app-containers/apptainer
2021-11-23 Full MariaDB database restore maybe required
2021-10-30 net-news/rssguard-4.0 upgrade
2021-10-24 netifrc DHCP client
2021-10-18 migrating from glibc[crypt] to libxcrypt in stable
2021-10-17 dev-libs/openssl USE=bindist removal
2021-10-08 OpenSSH RSA SHA-1 signatures
2021-09-29 Possible failure to preserve libraries
2021-09-24 busybox removal from system set
2021-09-05 setuptools_scm-6.3.0 temporary runtime breakage
2021-08-24 eudev retirement on 2022-01-01
2021-08-19 >=app-misc/mc-4.8.27 to drop support for ~/.mc
2021-08-18 uClibc-ng retirement on 2022-01-01
2021-08-11 OAuth2 Credentials Removed from Chromium
2021-08-01 USE=tcpd no longer globally enabled
2021-07-20 Perl 5.34 upgrade now stable
2021-07-17 new ppc64 profiles
2021-07-16 PulseEffects-5+ are now media-sound/easyeffects
2021-07-15 systemd-tmpfiles replaces deprecated opentmpfiles
2021-06-28 USE flag 'pax_kernel' to be renamed to 'pax-kernel'
2021-06-20 riscv upgrade to 20.0 profiles
2021-05-30 sys-libs/db old SLOT removal
2021-05-18 >=net-p2p/syncthing-1.17.0 incompatibility warning
2021-05-14 x86 support to be dropped from media-gfx/darktable
2021-05-04 Exim>=4.94 transports: tainted not permitted
2021-01-30 New OpenRC Display Manager Initializer Scripts
2021-01-05 LibreSSL support discontinued
2020-12-26 Most stable hppa keywords removed
2020-10-06 kubernetes Split Packages Returning
2020-09-06 riscv multilib profile is going away
2020-06-24 xorg-server dropping default suid
2020-06-23 sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 upgrade
2020-04-22 Potential file collisions during OpenCL upgrade
2020-04-14 Desktop profile switching USE default to elogind
2020-04-04 new ppc64le (little-endian) profiles
2020-04-03 Deprecation of legacy X11 input drivers
2020-03-30 Stable ia64 keywords removed
2020-02-20 OpenSSH 8.2_p1 running sshd breakage
2020-01-23 Stable alpha keywords removed
2019-12-30 Genkernel 4 changed default filenames
2019-11-25 sys-boot/raspberrypi-firmware will not install device tree files
2019-10-29 sys-fs/cryfs-0.10.2 update
2019-09-11 new CPU_FLAGS_PPC USE_EXPAND
2019-07-18 Syncthing 1.2.0 and newer do not interoperate with 0.14.45 and older
2019-06-05 amd64 17.1 profiles are now stable
2019-05-23 Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default
2018-09-07 ARM 17.0 profile migration with CHOST change
2018-08-07 Migration required for OpenSSH with LDAP
2018-07-11 Portage rsync hardlink support
2018-04-02 Radicale 2 requires pre-install migration
2018-01-30 Portage rsync tree verification
2018-01-23 systemd sysv-utils blocker resolution
2018-01-14 GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change
2017-11-30 New 17.0 profiles in the Gentoo repository
2017-11-22 No stable KEYWORDS for Gentoo Games
2017-10-13 OpenRC "service" binary removal
2017-09-19 app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation and removal
2017-08-19 sys-kernel/hardened-sources removal
2017-07-16 systemd rootprefix migration
2017-04-10 app-emulation/wine split and slotting
2017-03-01 =mail-mta/exim-4.88 problem with chunking