It was three months ago that our fifth-anniversary release, Endeavour, was released and with the upstream changes, we released this refresh ISO.
I know I mentioned in the Endeavour release announcement that the Endeavour release name would be a one-off release name that wouldn’t be followed up by a Neo and Nova release. But we decided to name this release Endeavour Neo due to the recent Pacman changes.
This release isn’t shipping new features and major fixes, we are still working on those, but just the necessary bug fixes for a smooth installation and the upstream updates for the Live environment and the offline installation option.
Endeavour Neo ships with :
Calamares 24.06.2.1-1
Firefox 130.0.1-1
Linux 6.10.10.arch1-1
Mesa 1:24.2.3-1
Xorg-server 21.1.13-1 (xorg)
Nvidia 560.35.03-6
The ISO can be downloaded here
I have no capability to assist, but I was excited when I saw the recent news about the return of an ARM version of Endeavour. Then I saw it was limited to a few smaller processors, so not something for my Mac. I hope that the work Asahi is doing could lead to a future ARM version for the M series of chips. Currently just getting to use Endeavour here and then when I boot my old MBP into the Windows side and use it in a VM. I have ARM versions of OpenSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu installed in UTM currently on my M3 Pro. Just tried installing the x86 version in the emulated mode and it hangs after trying to load efi_pstore. Ahh well.
Not easy to start without having the hardware at hand, but we hope on someone willing to help to own one, better some people in addition to test things out. We will see, interest is huge it seems.
New to EndeavourOS..I saw the new release of EndeavourOS Neo. I am already running EndeavourOS 2024.06.25. How do I upgrade to Neo? Do I download the ISO file and reinstall?
The new ISO changes are only concerning updates for the installation process. Once it is installed, just update regularly, we’re a rolling release distro.
Thanks for your quick reply. Really appreciate it.