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Today is the day! — Nitrux 2.5.1 is available to download

We are pleased to announce the launch of Nitrux 2.5.1. This new version combines the latest software updates, bug fixes, performance improvements, and ready-to-use hardware support.

Nitrux 2.5.1 is available immediately.

📜 Table of Contents

  1. What’s new
  2. Download
  3. Known issues
  4. Notes
  5. Report bugs
  6. Changelog history
  7. Resources
  8. PSA

✨ What’s new

We recommend fresh installation using the latest available media for new distribution users. For users of the previous version (2.5.0), please check the Notes.

  • See Notes for detailed information on a list of packages updated from the last release.

The 6.0.0-11.2 Liquorix kernel is now the default in the distribution.

We’ve updated the following components of the distribution. For other information, see Notes.

  • KDE Plasma to version 5.26.4, KDE Frameworks to version 5.100.0, and KDE Gear to version 22.08.3.
  • Firefox to version 107.0.1.
  • We’ve updated the Nvidia Proprietary Driver to version 525.60.11.
  • We’ve updated MESA to version 23.0.
  • We’ve added a new package called linux-firmware-nitrux with updated firmware files for various devices.
  • We’ve added KDE Partition Manager.
  • We’ve added the following packages
    • wireless-regdb
    • open-vm-tools-desktop
    • virtualbox-guest-x11 and virtualbox-guest-utils

We’ve fixed or closed the following issues in the distribution; see Report bugs.

  • We’ve fixed an issue with Calamares failing to add the bootloader after the installation.
  • We’ve removed from the configuration of one of Calamares’ modules the step where Calamares downloaded a package.

We’ve removed the following components from the distribution.

  • No release of a minimal ISO this month due to an increase in bandwidth expenses.

📥 Download

Here are various ways to download our ISOs and virtual appliances.

Checksums (MD5).

415b72209559b857e45db8e34c07ce5b nitrux-nx-desktop-3e73366e-amd64.iso

⛔ Known issues

To see a list of known issues, click here.

🗒 Notes

To see a list of release notes, click here.

🐞 Report bugs

To report bugs, please use our bug tracker on GitHub.

📝 Changelog history

To see a list of previous changelogs, click here for the changes archived at our site or for the changes archived at Sourceforge.

📰 Resources

Here are various articles, tutorials, and other information on our blog.

📌 Post-release announcements

Here’s a list of post-release service announcements for this version of Nitrux.