¶ What's New in ROME
¶ Changelog 26.09
Full announcement: OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released
¶ KDE
- Plasma Desktop 6.7.5
- Frameworks 6.29.0
- KDE Gear 26.08.1
- Qt 6.11.2 (and 5.15.19)
¶ Other desktops
- GNOME 50.3, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4.0, MATE 1.28 (with an experimental Wayland session)
- In the repositories: hyprland 0.56.2, cosmic 1.7.0, niri 26.04, sway 1.12, i3 4.25.1, labwc 0.20.2, Spectrwm (new)
¶ Display subsystem
- Mesa 26.2.3
- Open NVIDIA kernel module now built into the kernel; proprietary driver 610.57.04 in non-free
¶ Core
- Kernel 7.2.7 (and 7.3.0-rc4) built with clang. GCC compiled versions also available (kernel-desktop-gcc)
- LLVM/clang 23.1.2
- gcc 16.2.0
- glibc 2.44, with support for interchangeable malloc implementations
- rpm 6.1.0, with a new optional %pgo section in spec files
- grub2 2.16
- ROCm 10.0.0
¶ Applications
- Helium 0.17.2, new default browser for Plasma and LXQt (replaces ungoogled-chromium)
- Firefox 156.0, Thunderbird 155.0, LibreOffice 26.8.0.3
- Krita 6.0.4 (Qt6), GIMP 3.2.4, Inkscape 1.4.4, Blender 5.2.2, OBS 32.2.2
- WINE 11.18, Proton 11.0+20260808, DXVK 3.0.2, vkd3d 2.0
- Snap support (sudo dnf install snapd), alongside Flatpak and AppImage
- Local AI tools: llama-cpp, ollama, whisper-cpp, comfyui and others, on system-wide GGML 0.24.0
¶ Changelog 25.04
¶ KDE
- Plasma Desktop 6.3.4 - (and 5.27.12)
- Frameworks 6.13.0 - (and 5.116)
- KDE Applications 25.04.0 - (and 23.08.5)
- Qt 6.9.0 - (and 5.15.15)
¶ Display subsystem
- Xorg 21.1.16
- Wayland 1.23.1
- Mesa 25.0.4
¶ Core
- Kernel 6.14.2 (and 6.15.0-rc2) built with clang. GCC compiled versions also available
- systemd 257.5
- LLVM/clang 19.1.7
- binutils 2.44
- gcc 14.2.1
- glibc 2.41
- Java 24
¶ Installer
¶ Some key applications
- LibreOffice Suite 25.2.3 with Qt 6 and Plasma 6 integration
- Falkon 25.04.0
- Chromium 135.0.7049.84 patched with Google spyware disabled and JPEG-XL support re-enabled
- Firefox 137.0.2 patched with spyware disabled
- QMPlay2 25.01.19
- Telegram Desktop 5.13.1
- Krita 5.2.9
- Gimp 3.0.2
- Digikam 8.6.0
- SMPlayer 24.5.0
- VLC 3.0.21
- Virtualbox 7.1.8
- VokoscreenNG 4.5.0
- OBS Studio 31.0.3
¶ Alternative desktops
The system repositories also include LXQt 2.2, Gnome 48.1, Mate 1.28, xfce 4.20.1, Cinnamon, icewm, i3, sway, hyprland, hypr, wayfire, budgie and others.
¶ Flatpak support
