May was an intense month on the maintenance front: two mass rebuilds — one for OCaml and one for GHC 9.14.1 — involved hundreds of packages. On the desktop side, KDE Plasma 6.6.5 and KDE Frameworks 6.26.0 further consolidate the…
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April 2026 Updates
Several user-requested tools are now available in the base repository: tmux 3.6a — the popular terminal multiplexer, now available in openmamba; manage multiple terminal sessions in a single window and keep sessions alive after disconnecting ripgrep 15.1.0 — an extremely…
What’s new in openmamba — February/March 2026
Starting this month, openmamba is making use of artificial intelligence tools to support some maintenance activities: monitoring upstream updates, creating new packages, drafting communications such as this announcement, and other infrastructure-related tasks. The entire process remains coordinated and supervised by…
News: openmamba ready to ship KDE Plasma 6 “mega-release”
After a period of packaging and testing openmamba is ready to ship the KDE Plasma 6 mega release upgrade to all users. The next snapshots of livecd and livedvd live and installation media, which will be available within a couple…
New: Git-based source repository and other news
openmamba provides a new web service on the src.openmamba.org site where the recipes (.spec files), patches and additional files representing the over 5500 source packages with which the distribution in format is created and maintained are easily consultable. tracks. The…
News: support for 64-bit ARM architecture (and Raspberry Pi 4)
openmamba is now available for the aarch64 (aka arm64) architecture, which is added to the x86_64, i586 e arm (armel) supported architectures. This makes openmamba potentially compatible with present and future devices based on 64-bit ARM architecture that have a standard GNU/Linux…
openmamba “light” with LXQt desktop
The “light” version of openmamba is renewed by adopting the LXQt desktop environment which replaces the previous LXDE environment. Meanwhile, the main release continues to provide users with an always up-to-date KDE Plasma desktop environment. In the Downloads section all…
openmamba: subsystem updated to RPM 4 and DNF
After a period of development and testing, the openmamba software packages management and update subsystem has been updated and rebased on version 4 of the RPM manger package using DNF (which replaces YUM) for managing system updates. With this important…
openmamba milestone4 (beta) and rolling updates
The development of the rolling distribution of openmamba keeps going since the release of the openmamba milestone3. It’s time to give some updates: milestone4 milestone4 release enters a beta phase. Packages repositories of this milestone release are available and will be synchronized periodically with upstream repositories…
openmamba milestone3
After some months in pre-release state, installation media of the milestone3 stable version are available for download with release 3.0.1. Users of existing pre-release milestone3 installations have already received system updates, while those who want to make new installations or use…
