Ultra-efficient Q4OS 5.7 comes with Debian 12.8-specific changes and more
Since Debian 12.8 arrived last week, it's not surprising to see the Debian-based Q4OS distro receiving a version bump as well. As usual, the Debian-specific changes are supplemented by Q4OS-exclusive fixes, tweaks, and visual improvements. While the Q4OS 5.7 ISO files have been available for download for over 20 hours already, there is no official release announcement to talk about yet.
When talking about the Debian 12.8 changes that certainly affect Q4OS 5.7 as well, we should mention the new upstream stable package releases for systemd and intel-microcode (security fixes for CVE-2024-23984 and CVE-2024-24968 are also included), as well as the fixes applied to calamares-settings-debian. The whole list of changes in Debian 12.8 can be found right here, but many of those packages are not used by Q4OS 5.7. However, the security fixes for Chromium and some Linux base files present in the latest Debian release are definitely in the cards for Q4OS as well, although some might not be available in version 5.7.
In addition to the above, the only thing that can be done by those eager to take Q4OS 5.7 for a spin is to download the install images, which are available in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions, as it was the case until now as well. The Trinity desktop environment is still in place, and so is the setup wizard for those looking to have Q4OS up and running on a Windows machine (as long as they are running at least Windows 7, so virtually all Windows users going online right now).
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