24.12 Changes

The release contains a total of 2158 changesets, including approximately 3280 package updates, 200 fixed issues, 206 packages or features added and 37 removed and around 20 improvements.

User visible

• system-wide t2 symlink to run the pkg manager from any dir
• GCC 14.2
• uClibC 1.0.49
• LLVM/Clang 19.1.5
• Linux 6.12.5
• ships Qemu by default
• restores Linux kernel VT scrollback for FB and VGA
• auto hostname based on hw platform
• correctly registered in EFI boot-managers
• Nintendo Wii U PowerPC SMP sync workaround

Developer visible

• new "./t2 config" support to get and set options
• some options renamed for easier CLI access (e.g. PARALLEL_MAX -> PARALLEL)

Known Issues

Due to the nature of all cross compiled base install ISOs, gobject-introspection is not installed by default and some packages need to be natively, locally rebuilt for some advanced gnome-desktop packages.