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# Change Log

Current release: 13.0 – March 4th, 2026

Changelog Entries:

- March 4th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - GLFS-13.0 released.

- March 3rd, 2026

  - [zeckma] - New “Preparing for GLFS” chapter.

- February 25th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - GS: 1.28.0 -> 1.28.1 (security). See BLFS ticket #22868.

  - [renodr] - GLib: Fix memory corruption problems with glibc-2.43. Fixes #379.

- Febraury 24th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - *: Use meson cross files by default (requires newer files from MLFS).

  - [zeckma] - NSS: 3.120 -> 3.120.1.

- February 19th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Inform the reader that the GitHub Pages version is a backup.

  - [zeckma] - libvpx: Add a security patch. See BLFS ticket #22827.

  - [zeckma] - libgpg-error: 1.57 -> 1.59.

- February 14th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Drop SysVinit and link to new MLFS location.

  - [zeckma] - PyYAML: 6.0.2 -> 6.0.3. Fixes #372.

  - [zeckma] - GLib: 2.86.3 -> 2.86.4 (security).

  - [zeckma] - Rustc: 1.93.0 -> 1.93.1.

  - [zeckma] - Mesa: 25.3.1 -> 25.3.5. Fixes #371.

- February 12th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Added DRI from Mesa, and made it and libgbm the default.

- February 10th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - MinGW-w64-Binutils: 2.45.1 -> 2.46.

  - [zeckma] - Shadow: 4.19.2 -> 4.19.3.

  - [zeckma] - libpng: 1.6.54 -> 1.6.55 (security).

  - [zeckma] - libX11: 1.8.12 -> 1.8.13.

  - [zeckma] - libfontenc: 1.1.8 -> 1.1.9.

  - [zeckma] - GnuTLS: 3.8.11 -> 3.8.12 (security).

  - [zeckma] - font-alias: 1.0.5 -> 1.0.6.

  - [zeckma] - ply: Archived.

  - [zeckma] - libvpx: 1.15.2 -> 1.16.0.

- February 8th, 2026

  - [renodr] - p11-kit: 0.26.1 -> 0.26.2 (Security Update). Fixes #367.

  - [renodr] - systemd: 259 -> 259.1. Fixes #369.

- February 7th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 11.1 -> 11.2.

- February 6th, 2026

  - [tox] - sdl2-compat: 2.32.62 -> 2.32.64. Fixes #363.

  - [tox] - hwdata: 0.403 -> 0.404. Fixes Fixes #364.

- February 4th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Vulkan-SDK: 1.4.335.0 -> 1.4.341.0.

  - [zeckma] - SPIRV-LLVM-Translator: 21.1.3 -> 21.1.4.

- February 1st, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Rustc: 1.92.0 -> 1.93.0.

- January 30th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Shadow: 4.19.0 -> 4.19.2.

  - [zeckma] - CMake: 4.2.2 -> 4.2.3.

  - [zeckma] - libXmu: 1.3.0 -> 1.3.1.

  - [zeckma] - SVT-AV1: 4.0.0 -> 4.0.1.

  - [zeckma] - Systemd: Add an environment generator.

- January 28th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - GS: 1.26.10 -> 1.28.0.

- January 27th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - libXext: 1.3.6 -> 1.3.7.

  - [zeckma] - libXpm: 3.5.17 -> 3.5.18.

  - [zeckma] - libXcomposite: 0.4.6 -> 0.4.7.

  - [zeckma] - libXdamage: 1.1.6 -> 1.1.7.

  - [zeckma] - libXinerama: 1.1.5 -> 1.1.6.

  - [zeckma] - libXrandr: 1.5.4 -> 1.5.5.

  - [zeckma] - libXvMC: 1.0.14 -> 1.0.15.

  - [zeckma] - libXxf86dga: 1.1.6 -> 1.1.7.

  - [zeckma] - libXxf86vm: 1.1.6 -> 1.1.7.

  - [zeckma] - libxkbfile: 1.1.3 -> 1.2.0.

  - [zeckma] - xkill: 1.0.6 -> 1.0.7.

  - [zeckma] - Added Tooling Chapter and moved several packages like CMake and LLVM to it.

  - [zeckma] - OCL-ICD: Added.

  - [zeckma] - OpenCL-Headers: Added.

  - [zeckma] - Ruby: Added.

- January 26th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Linux-PAM: 1.7.1 -> 1.7.2.

  - [zeckma] - SVT-AV1: 3.1.2 -> 4.0.0.

- January 25th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 12.3.1 -> 12.3.2.

  - [zeckma] - libXmu: 1.2.1 -> 1.3.0.

  - [zeckma] - CMake: 4.2.1 -> 4.2.2.

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 11.0 -> 11.1.

- January 21st, 2026

  - [zeckma] - p11-kit: 0.26.0 -> 0.26.1.

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 12.3.0 -> 12.3.1.

- January 18th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Xorg-Server: 21.1.20 -> 21.1.21.

- January 17th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA-r580: 580.119.02 -> 580.126.09 (security). Fixes #359.

  - [zeckma] - CUDA: 13.1.0 -> 13.1.1. Fixes #360.

  - [zeckma] - p11-kit: 0.25.10 -> 0.26.0.

- January 16th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Opus: 1.6 -> 1.6.1.

- January 14th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - libpng: 1.6.52 -> 1.6.54 (security). See BLFS SA-12.4-076.

  - [zeckma] - ALSA: 1.2.15.2 -> 1.2.15.3.

- January 13th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 10.20 -> 11.0. Fixes #344.

  - [zeckma] - Wine: Introduce new WoW64 architecture.

- January 11th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - GameMode; inih: Added.

- January 10th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - NSS: 3_119_1 -> 3.120.

  - [zeckma] - ICU: 78.1 -> 78.2.

  - [zeckma] - ALSA: 1.2.15.1 -> 1.2.15.2.

- January 9th, 2026

  - [zeckma] - cURL: 8.17.0 -> 8.18.0 (security). See #22618.

  - [zeckma] - libtasn1: 4.20.0 -> 4.21.0 (security). See #22620.

- January 6th, 2026

  - [renodr] - hwdata: 0.402 -> 0.403.

- January 5th, 2026

  - [renodr] - Cython: 3.2.3 -> 3.2.4.

- January 3rd, 2026

  - [zeckma] - SDL3: 3.2.30 -> 3.4.0.

- January 3rd, 2026

  - [zeckma] - Shadow: 4.18.0 -> 4.19.0.

  - [zeckma] - SDL3: 3.2.28 -> 3.2.30. Fixes #357.

  - [zeckma] - sdl2-compat: 2.32.60 -> 2.32.62.

  - [zeckma] - dav1d: 1.5.1 -> 1.5.3. Fixes #356.

- January 1st, 2026

  - [zeckma] - libglvnd: Install libGLESv1_CM.

- December 31st, 2025

  - [renodr] - xauth: 1.1.4 -> 1.1.5. Fixes #355.

  - [renodr] - systemd: 258.1 -> 259. Fixes #353.

  - [renodr] - libaom: use an alternative method to prevent the static libraries from being installed. This follows the new method from BLFS. Fixes #354.

- December 28th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 12.2.0 -> 12.3.0.

  - [zeckma] - GStreamer-Suite: 1.26.9 -> 1.26.10 (security).

- December 26th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libva: 2.22.0 -> 2.23.0. Fixes #351.

- December 22nd, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA-590.48.01 (security); CUDA-13.1.0; CUDA-13.0.2: Added. Fixes #327.

- December 21st, 2025

  - [zeckma] - xorgproto: 2024.1 -> 2025.1.

  - [zeckma] - Polkit: 126 -> 127.

  - [zeckma] - shareddeps: Split Graphics Drivers into multiple chapters: “Graphics APIs”; “Graphics Drivers, Preliminaries”; “Graphics Drivers, NVIDIA”; and “Graphics Drivers, Mesa”.

  - [zeckma] - ALSA: 1.2.14 -> 1.2.15.1. Fixes #350.

  - [zeckma] - VKD3D-Proton: 3.0 -> 3.0b. Fixes #348.

- December 17th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - egl-x11 (NVIDIA EGL Library): 1.0.3 -> 1.0.4.

- December 16th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Opus: 1.5.2 -> 1.6.

  - [zeckma] - Wayland-Protocols: 1.46 -> 1.47.

  - [zeckma] - libdrm: 2.4.130 -> 2.4.131.

  - [zeckma] - LLVM: 21.1.7 -> 21.1.8.

  - [zeckma] - Rustc: 1.91.0 -> 1.92.0.

  - [zeckma] - libgbm: 1.0.3 -> 1.0.4. Fixes #346.

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA: 580.105.08 -> 580.119.02. Fixes #343.

  - [zeckma] - Cython: 3.2.2 -> 3.2.3. Fixes #345.

- December 11th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NSS: 3.119 -> 3.119.1.

  - [zeckma] - Vulkan-SDK: 1.4.328.1 -> 1.4.335.0.

- December 10th, 2025

  - [renodr] - libinput: 1.30.0 -> 1.30.1. Fixes #340.

  - [renodr] - CMake: 4.2.0 -> 4.2.1. Fixes #341.

  - [renodr] - libgpg-error: 1.55 -> 1.57. Fixes #342.

  - [renodr] - gnome.ent: sync with BLFS after GNOME 49 was recently put in. I don't think anything in GLFS uses it, but because it is in this tree, let's update it anyway.

- December 8th, 2025

  - [renodr] - GLib: 2.86.2 -> 2.86.3 (Security). Fixes #339.

  - [renodr] - libdrm: 2.4.129 -> 2.4.130. Fixes #337.

- December 6th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NSS: 3.118.1 -> 3.119.

  - [zeckma] - libgbm: 1.0.2 -> 1.0.3.

- December 5th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libxkbcommon: 3049d3 (1.13.0) -> 6f76d1 (1.13.1). Fixes #333.

  - [zeckma] - Mesa: 25.2.2 -> 25.3.1.

  - [zeckma] - FFmpeg: 7.1.3 -> 8.0.1 (security). Fixes #336.

  - [zeckma] - Cython: 3.2.1 -> 3.2.2.

- December 4th, 2025

  - [renodr] - xkbcomp: 1.4.7 -> 1.5.0 (security). Fixes #330.

  - [zeckma] - FFmpeg: 7.1.2 -> 7.1.3 (security). Fixes #328.

  - [zeckma] - SDL3: 3.2.26 -> 3.2.28. Fixes #334.

  - [zeckma] - sdl2-compat: 2.32.58 -> 2.32.60. Fixes #335.

  - [zeckma] - hwdata: 0.401 -> 0.402. Fixes #331.

  - [zeckma] - GStreamer-Suite: 1.26.8 -> 1.26.9. Fixes #329.

  - [zeckma] - libpng: 1.6.51 -> 1.6.52 (security). Fixes #332.

- December 2nd, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libevdev: 1.13.5 -> 1.13.6.

  - [zeckma] - libpng: 1.6.50 -> 1.6.51 (security). See BLFS ticket #22426.

  - [zeckma] - LLVM: 21.1.2 -> 21.1.7.

  - [zeckma] - SPIRV-LLVM-Translator: 21.1.2 -> 21.1.3.

- November 30th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - aboutgl: Another rewrite, made briefer.

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 10.19 -> 10.20. Fixes #323.

  - [zeckma] - libinput: 1.29.2 -> 1.30.0.

- November 29th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libatomic_ops: Added. Fixes #326.

  - [tox] - *: Purge trailing whitespace.

- November 24th, 2025

  - [renodr] - Bump the Python version to 3.14.

  - [zeckma] - Wayland-Protocols: 1.45 -> 1.46.

- November 23rd, 2025

  - [zeckma] - VDPAU (libvdpau, libvdpau-va-gl): Removed. Fixes #318.

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA-VA-API-Driver: Added. Fixes #321.

  - [zeckma] - nv-codec-headers (ffnvcodec): Moved from SLFS.

- November 21st, 2025

  - [zeckma] - VKD3D-Proton: 2.14.1 -> 3.0. Fixes #319.

  - [zeckma] - Steam: 1.0.0.84 -> 1.0.0.85. Fixes #320.

  - [zeckma] - NSS: 3.117 -> 3.118.1.

  - [zeckma] - elogind: 255.17 -> 255.22.

  - [zeckma] - CMake: 4.1.2 -> 4.2.0.

  - [zeckma] - GnuTLS: 3.8.10 -> 3.8.11 (security) See BLFS ticket #22417.

  - [zeckma] - Xorg Wacom Driver: 1.2.3 -> 1.2.4.

- November 19th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - GLib2: 2.86.1 -> 2.86.2.

  - [zeckma] - Book: Updated GLFS Logo, added SVG.

- November 18th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - SDL3: Added.

- November 17th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libdrm: 2.4.128 -> 2.4.129.

  - [zeckma] - GStreamer-Suite: 1.26.7 -> 1.26.8.

- November 14th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 10.18 -> 10.19.

  - [zeckma] - FreeType2: Remove passes, load HarfBuzz dynamically.

  - [zeckma] - Cython: 3.1.6 -> 3.2.1.

  - [zeckma] - SPIRV-LLVM-Translator: 21.1.1 -> 21.1.2.

  - [zeckma] - hwdata: 0.400 -> 0.401.

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 12.1.0 -> 12.2.0.

  - [zeckma] - NSPR: 4.37 -> 4.38.2.

  - [zeckma] - MinGW-w64-Binutils: 2.45 -> 2.45.1.

- November 12th, 2025

  - [renodr] - cURL: Fix the patch for CVE-2025-11563. See BLFS ticket #22348 for more information.

- November 8th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libxkbcommon: f4f732 (1.12.3) -> 3049d3 (1.13.0).

  - [zeckma] - cURL: 8.16.0 -> 8.17.0 (security). See BLFS ticket #22348.

- November 4th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA: 580.95.05 -> 580.105.08.

- November 3rd, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Rustc: 1.90.0 -> 1.91.0.

  - [zeckma] - libdrm: 2.4.127 -> 2.4.128.

  - [zeckma] - ICU: 77.1 -> 78.1.

- November 2nd, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 10.17 -> 10.18.

- October 30th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libxkbcommon: bdf069 (1.12.2) -> f4f732 (1.12.3).

  - [zeckma] - Xorg-Server: 21.1.18 -> 21.1.20 (security). See BLFS ticket #22323.

  - [zeckma] - Xwayland: 24.1.8 -> 24.1.9 (security). See BLFS ticket #22324.

- October 27th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libxkbcommon: 1.12.0 -> bdf069 (1.12.2).

  - [zeckma] - Cython: 3.1.4 -> 3.1.6.

  - [zeckma] - Cbindgen: 0.29.0 -> 0.29.2.

  - [zeckma] - libinput: 1.29.1 -> 1.29.2.

  - [zeckma] - libevdev: 1.13.4 -> 1.13.5.

  - [zeckma] - GLib2: 2.86.0 -> 2.86.1.

- October 18th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libxml2: 2.15.0 -> 2.15.1.

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 10.16 -> 10.17.

- October 15th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Systemd: 258 -> 258.1.

  - [zeckma] - GStreamer-Suite: 1.26.6 -> 1.26.7.

  - [zeckma] - libdrm: 2.4.126 -> 2.4.127.

- October 12th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libxkbcommon: 1.11.0 -> 1.12.0.

  - [zeckma] - NASM: 2.16.03 -> 3.01.

- October 10th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Vulkan-SDK: 1.4.328.0 -> 1.4.328.1.

  - [zeckma] - libunistring: 1.4 -> 1.4.1.

- October 7th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Vulkan-SDK: 1.4.321.0 -> 1.4.328.0.

  - [zeckma] - LLVM: 20.1.8 -> 21.1.2.

  - [zeckma] - Rustc: 1.89.0 -> 1.90.0.

  - [zeckma] - SPRIV-LLVM-Translator: 20.1.5 -> 21.1.1.

  - [zeckma] - libgbm: 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2.

- October 4th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 10.15 -> 10.16.

  - [zeckma] - XKeyboard-Config: 2.45 -> 2.46.

  - [zeckma] - hwdata: 0.399 -> 0.400.

  - [zeckma] - NSS: 3.116 -> 3.117.

- October 2nd, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libdrm: 2.4.125 -> 2.4.126.

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 12.0.0 -> 12.1.0.

  - [zeckma] - CMake: 4.1.1 -> 4.1.2.

  - [zeckma] - Systemd: 257.8 -> 258.

- October 1st, 2025

  - [zeckma] - cURL: 8.15.0 -> 8.16.0 (security). Fixes #313.

  - [zeckma] - libaom: 3.12.1 -> 3.13.1 (security). Fixes #314.

- September 30th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA: 580.82.09 -> 580.95.05.

- September 29th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libunistring: 1.3 -> 1.4.

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 11.5.1 -> 12.0.0.

- September 28th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - GLib2: 2.84.4 -> 2.86.0.

- September 27th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 11.5.0 -> 11.5.1.

  - [zeckma] - *: Make dependency lists collapsible.

- September 24th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Cython: 3.1.3 -> 3.1.4.

  - [zeckma] - p11-kit: 0.25.8 -> 0.25.10.

  - [zeckma] - libunwind: 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3.

  - [zeckma] - FFmpeg: 8.0 -> 7.1.2 (security).

- September 22nd, 2025

  - [zeckma] - xdg-user-dirs: 0.18 -> 0.19.

  - [zeckma] - libaom: Brought back in.

  - [zeckma] - libgbm: 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1.

- September 18th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NSS: 3.115.1 -> 3.116.

  - [zeckma] - libxml2: 2.14.6 -> 2.15.0.

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 11.4.5 -> 11.5.0.

- September 16th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - About OpenGL: Rewrote “What is OpenGL?”.

- September 15th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - GStreamer-Suite: 1.26.5 -> 1.26.6.

  - [zeckma] - FreeType2: 2.14.0 -> 2.14.1.

  - [zeckma] - p11-kit: 0.25.7 -> 0.25.8.

- September 14th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libaom: Replaced with SVT-AV1 and dav1d.

- September 13th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA: 580.82.07 -> 580.82.09.

  - [zeckma] - p11-kit: 0.25.5 -> 0.25.7. Fixes #311.

  - [zeckma] - xcb-util-cursor: 0.1.5 -> 0.1.6 (XCB Utility). Fixes #310.

- September 12th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Wine: 10.14 -> 10.15.

- September 11th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - GBM -> libgbm.

  - [zeckma] - GBM: Move header installations to NVIDIA.

- September 9th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - libxml2: 2.14.5 -> 2.14.6.

  - [zeckma] - FreeType2: 2.13.3 -> 2.14.0.

  - [zeckma] - libXScrnSaver (Xorg library): 1.2.4 -> 1.2.5.

  - [zeckma] - libXres (Xorg library): 1.2.2 -> 1.2.3.

  - [zeckma] - libXpresent (Xorg library): 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2.

  - [zeckma] - Mesa: 25.1.8 -> 25.2.2.

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA: Only support powerd on Systemd.

- September 8th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA: Add uninstall option.

  - [zeckma] - Unsupport Mesa's OpenGL; GLU: Moved from SLFS.

- September 7th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - FFmpeg: 7.1.1 -> 8.0. Fixes #307.

  - [zeckma] - SDL2: 2.32.8 -> 2.32.10.

  - [zeckma] - rust-bindgen: 0.72.0 -> 0.72.1.

  - [zeckma] - libinput: 1.29.0 -> 1.29.1.

  - [zeckma] - CMake: 4.1 -> 4.1.1.

  - [zeckma] - libXfixes (Xorg library): 6.0.1 -> 6.0.2. Fixes #306.

  - [zeckma] - HarfBuzz: 11.4.1 -> 11.4.5.

  - [zeckma] - NSS: 3.115 -> 3.115.1.

- September 5th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA: Create device nodes at boot time.

- September 4th, 2025

  - [zeckma] - SQLite; Python3 rebuild: Archived.

  - [zeckma] - PCRE2: Archived.

  - [zeckma] - NVIDIA: 580.76.05 -> 580.82.07. Fixes #304.

- September 1st, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Steam: 1.0.0.83 -> 1.0.0.84.

- August 31st, 2025

  - [zeckma] - Changelog: Cleaned for next release cycle.

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