Gentoo Packages

net-libs/nodejs is now slotted - 2026-08-02 (bentoo)
app-misc/notion dropped - 2026-07-10 (jaredallard)
gentoo-zh overlay moved to gentoo-zh/overlay - 2026-07-05 (gentoo-zh)
TeX Live 2025/2026 unmasked — now the default - 2026-07-03 (stuff)
32-bit s390 support dropped - 2026-06-28 (gentoo)
PostgreSQL Extensions - 2026-06-17 (gitlab)
Some ebuilds will be moved to GURU - 2026-06-07 (jacksonchen666)
TeX Live 2025/2026 imported — masked during initial testing - 2026-05-29 (stuff)
KDE PIM 26.04.1 default backend changes to sqlite - 2026-05-23 (gentoo)
sys-kernel: pf-sources curated-patchset model relocated to pf-sources-extended - 2026-05-13 (stuff)
Dracut changed default for hostonly_cmdline setting - 2026-05-08 (gentoo)
pf-sources: -r70 curated patch design and tracking commitment - 2026-05-06 (stuff)
pf-sources changes — CVE-2026-31431 fixes, -r70 ebuilds, GA-only phase-out - 2026-05-06 (stuff)
stuff overlay: active maintenance resumed, AI-assisted workflow disclosed - 2026-05-06 (stuff)
pf-sources: CVE-2026-31431, CVE-2026-43037, and CVE-2026-43038 patched - 2026-05-06 (stuff)
Patch tarballs now hosted on extra-stuff sister repo - 2026-05-06 (stuff)
Portage binpkg changes - 2026-05-03 (gentoo)
SELinux Policy EAPI 8 Migration - 2026-04-26 (gentoo)
Short one-line title - 2026-04-23 (stuff)
Python 3.14 to become the default on 2026-06-01 - 2026-04-16 (gentoo)
Switch to Ruby33 - 2026-04-08 (gitlab)
Varnish Renamed - 2026-03-31 (gentoo)
sys-cluster/k3s replaced with sys-cluster/k3s-bin - 2026-03-30 (jaredallard)
mail-mta/postfix-3.11.0: Default database change - 2026-03-15 (gentoo)
www-client/chromium slotted installation - 2026-03-15 (gentoo)
Renamed to jaredallard - 2026-03-13 (jaredallard)
dev-cpp/glaze remove in favor of dev-cpp/glaze::gentoo - 2026-03-04 (jaredallard)
correction on the naming of bandwhich - 2026-02-26 (9999)
sssd to run as a dedicated user - 2026-02-11 (gentoo)
Desktop Profile to enable PipeWire support - 2026-01-15 (gentoo)
net-mail/dovecot-2.4.2 stabilization - 2026-01-08 (gentoo)
Move package srun - 2025-12-25 (imperium)
Move package srun - 2025-12-10 (imperium)
FlexiBLAS migration imminent - 2025-11-30 (gentoo)
Portage to verify git-synced ::gentoo per default - 2025-11-01 (gentoo)
OpenZFS packages merged - 2025-10-14 (gentoo)
Cache-enabled sync mirrors only for official repos - 2025-10-07 (gentoo)
app-backup/tsm changes to scheduled backups - 2025-09-24 (gentoo)
PostgreSQL Extensions - 2025-09-17 (gitlab)
encfs is unmaintained - 2025-09-16 (gentoo)
sys-apps/openrc user services introduction - 2025-09-04 (gentoo)
Stable sparc keywords removed - 2025-09-01 (gentoo)
Stable hppa keywords removed - 2025-09-01 (gentoo)
Force to use the bundled Git - 2025-08-21 (gitlab)
media-libs/mesa-asahi-flatpak changes - 2025-07-25 (asahi)
Breaking changes in nginx packaging in Gentoo - 2025-07-05 (gentoo)
nftables systemd service change - 2025-05-24 (gentoo)
net-mail/dovecot-2.4.x may break on upgrade - 2025-05-23 (gentoo)
Upstream Mesa now supports Apple Silicon - 2025-05-10 (asahi)
Updategentoo fix times - 2025-05-09 (imperium)
PosgreSQL Upgrade - 2025-05-08 (gitlab)
femxen-kernel problem with partuuid in grub config - 2025-05-07 (fem-overlay)
haskell-language-server now supports ghc-9.10 and 9.12 - 2025-05-04 (haskell)
Gentoo raises s390x baseline to z10 - 2025-04-14 (gentoo)
SELinux default POLICY_TYPES update - 2025-03-26 (gentoo)
Python 3.13 to become the default on 2025-05-01 - 2025-03-24 (gentoo)
Certbot rework and transition - 2025-03-14 (gentoo)
GHC 9.8 is now unmasked - 2025-03-06 (haskell)
Codeberg Migration - 2025-03-05 (peec)
Dracut changed default for hostonly setting - 2025-02-03 (gentoo)
net-im/armcord renamed to net-im/legcord - 2025-01-08 (jaredallard)
www-apps/gitlab-17.5.0 upgrade - 2024-10-16 (gitlab)
Haskell destabilization - 2024-09-29 (gentoo)
KDE Plasma 6.1.4 and Gear 24.05.2 Upgrade - 2024-08-31 (gentoo)
Battery charge threshold persistence now available - 2024-08-23 (asahi)
dracut module config changes - 2024-08-09 (gentoo)
Gentoo drops IA-64 support - 2024-08-07 (gentoo)
Migration to Flatpak for several applications - 2024-07-22 (arrans-overlay)
Asahi Mesa Flatpak runtime now available - 2024-07-16 (asahi)
app-arch/7-zip remove in favor of app-arch/7zip::gentoo - 2024-06-08 (jaredallard)
Upgrading to TeX Live 2023 - 2024-06-05 (gentoo)
chezmoi replaces chezmoi-bin - 2024-05-31 (jaredallard)
rubygems - 2024-05-22 (gitlab)
Khoverlay moved to Sourcehut - 2024-05-19 (khoverlay)
Changes to dracut kernel module/microcode handling - 2024-05-17 (gentoo)
Python 3.12 to become the default on 2024-06-01 - 2024-05-09 (gentoo)
Breaking Changes in coming Release 18.0 - 2024-05-08 (gitlab)
dev-lang/perl useflags become a PERL_FEATURES use-expand - 2024-05-07 (gentoo)
media-video/wireplumber-0.5.2 may break on upgrade - 2024-05-06 (gentoo)
IMPORTANT: media-video/wireplumber has been upgraded to 0.5.2 - 2024-04-30 (asahi)
PosgreSQL Upgrade - 2024-04-25 (gitlab)
Breaking Changes in coming Release 17.0 - 2024-04-23 (gitlab)
Zero Downtime Upgrades may raise problems - 2024-04-18 (gitlab)
Profile update requires migrations - 2024-04-05 (bell07)
Stable users: you can now remove global ~arm64! - 2024-04-02 (asahi)
ACTION REQUIRED: asahi-audio is now SLOTted - 2024-04-01 (asahi)
ACTION REQUIRED: enable unstable globally - 2024-04-01 (asahi)
Profile upgrade to version 23.0 available - 2024-03-22 (gentoo)
startup-disk has been upstreamed - 2024-03-03 (asahi)
installkernel is no longer implicitly installed - 2024-02-26 (gentoo)
asahi-kernel is now available - 2024-02-11 (asahi)
GRUB upgrades - 2024-02-01 (gentoo)
Upstreaming efforts have begun! - 2024-01-31 (asahi)
installkernel new USE flag systemd-boot - 2024-01-30 (gentoo)
GitLab Access Tokens now have lifetime limits - 2024-01-26 (gitlab)
Merging of installkernel-gentoo and installkernel-systemd - 2024-01-18 (gentoo)
Crypto-PRO CSP package now ships browser plugin within - 2024-01-13 (mva)
Separate /usr now requires an initramfs - 2024-01-05 (gentoo)
krunvm support has been removed - 2024-01-04 (asahi)
dev-util/rtx renamed to dev-util/mise - 2024-01-02 (jaredallard)
LXD to lose access for its image server - 2023-12-28 (gentoo)
sage-doc 10.3.beta4 and after - 2023-12-27 (sage-on-gentoo)
Switch to Ruby31 - 2023-12-20 (gitlab)
HDMI out now available - 2023-12-03 (asahi)
Limited speaker support now available - 2023-11-25 (asahi)
CUPS no longer directly depends on its filters - 2023-11-20 (gentoo)
Switch to Ruby31 - 2023-10-09 (gitlab)
Switch to Ruby31: pre-warning - 2023-10-06 (gitlab)
Ongoing removal of Ruby 3.0 support from Gentoo - 2023-09-27 (gitlab)
unmasking openssl-1 - 2023-09-11 (gitlab)
rubygems masking - 2023-08-28 (gitlab)
Codeberg Migration - 2023-08-23 (librewolf)
Ruby 3.0 masking and rubygems dependency - 2023-08-21 (gitlab)
asahi-meta package now available - 2023-07-10 (asahi)
Major changes to the Asahi Gentoo repo - 2023-07-10 (asahi)
masking openssl-3 - 2023-07-05 (gitlab)
Plasma Profile to enable PipeWire, Wayland support - 2023-05-21 (gentoo)
Slotted Boost EOL - 2023-05-21 (vayerx)
OpenSSH directory configuration changes - 2023-05-11 (gentoo)
Python 3.11 to become the default on 2023-05-01 - 2023-04-02 (gentoo)
www-apps/gitlab-15.10.0 upgrade - 2023-03-21 (gitlab)
database.yml `ci:` section - 2023-02-22 (gitlab)
Breaking changes to the RAP Prefix toolchain - 2023-01-28 (gentoo)
app-emulation/wine-staging - 2023-01-14 (bobwya)
app-eselect/eselect-wine - 2023-01-14 (bobwya)
app-emulation/wine-vanilla - 2023-01-14 (bobwya)
Hardened profiles improvements - 2023-01-01 (gentoo)
Introduction of app-alternatives ebuilds - 2022-12-27 (gentoo)
/usr merge for systemd users - 2022-12-01 (gentoo)
systemd-tmpfiles --clean enabled by default - 2022-11-21 (gentoo)
LVM2 default USE flag change - 2022-11-19 (gentoo)
NodeJS Binary package is broken - 2022-11-11 (broverlay)
Package dev-zig/zls (aka dev-util/zls) has been moved to GURU overlay - 2022-11-06 (bratishkaerik-overlay)
GitLab Runner - 2022-09-27 (gitlab)
www-apps/mycorrhiza has been moved to GURU overlay, binary version removed - 2022-08-17 (bratishkaerik-overlay)
PipeWire sound server migration - 2022-07-29 (gentoo)
Sidekiq MemoryKiller - 2022-07-29 (gitlab)
Mu 1.7.23 Causing Maildir Corruption - 2022-06-26 (gentoo)
Python 3.10 to become the default on 2022-07-01 - 2022-06-13 (gentoo)
Breaking configuration changes in borgmatic-1.6.0 - 2022-05-23 (gentoo)
v15.0.0 upgrading instructions - 2022-05-23 (gitlab)
Migration to GLEP-81 enabled webservers - 2022-05-20 (gentoo)
Breaking changes in 15.0 and Deprecations - 2022-05-04 (gitlab)
gst-plugins-bad splits off fdkaac plugin - 2022-04-24 (fem-overlay)
Migration to sys-apps/systemd-utils - 2022-04-19 (gentoo)
sys-apps/systemd-utils update needed - 2022-04-17 (gentoo)
Sandbox issue with ccache 4.6 - 2022-04-12 (gentoo)
Qt 5.15.3 version bump with binary path changes - 2022-03-30 (gentoo)
net-p2p/popura has been moved to GURU overlay - 2022-03-26 (bratishkaerik-overlay)
LLVM and Polly moved to clang-musl overlay - 2022-03-16 (gentoobr)
Transition from sys-cluster/singularity to app-containers/apptainer - 2022-03-05 (gentoo)
Java 11 Support for Spark Overlay - 2022-01-22 (spark-overlay)
sage 9.5 and after - 2022-01-20 (sage-on-gentoo)
New prometheus USE flag - 2021-12-22 (gitlab)
xfce-extra/xfce4-wmdock-plugin-gtk3 changes - 2021-12-16 (tezeta)
Removal of zabbix package from nitratesky overlay - 2021-11-24 (nitratesky)
Full MariaDB database restore maybe required - 2021-11-23 (gentoo)
New Systemd and OpenRC startup files - 2021-11-20 (gitlab)
Change to structure of x11-libs/libXft-bgra-patch - 2021-11-08 (nitratesky)
net-news/rssguard-4.0 upgrade - 2021-10-30 (gentoo)
netifrc DHCP client - 2021-10-24 (gentoo)
app-i18n/fcitx-meta dependencies changed - 2021-10-21 (ryans)
migrating from glibc[crypt] to libxcrypt in stable - 2021-10-18 (gentoo)
dev-libs/openssl USE=bindist removal - 2021-10-17 (gentoo)
OpenSSH RSA SHA-1 signatures - 2021-10-08 (gentoo)
Possible failure to preserve libraries - 2021-09-29 (gentoo)
busybox removal from system set - 2021-09-24 (gentoo)
New syntax for 'config/database.yml' - 2021-09-23 (gitlab)
setuptools_scm-6.3.0 temporary runtime breakage - 2021-09-05 (gentoo)
eudev retirement on 2022-01-01 - 2021-08-24 (gentoo)
>=app-misc/mc-4.8.27 to drop support for ~/.mc - 2021-08-19 (gentoo)
uClibc-ng retirement on 2022-01-01 - 2021-08-18 (gentoo)
fem-overlay moves to a new upstream repository - 2021-08-13 (fem-overlay)
Yambar and rust-analyzer moved to GURU - 2021-08-12 (gentoobr)
OAuth2 Credentials Removed from Chromium - 2021-08-11 (gentoo)
dev-java/*openjdk* provider change, potential move - 2021-08-05 (alxu)
Spark Overlay Revival - 2021-08-01 (spark-overlay)
USE=tcpd no longer globally enabled - 2021-08-01 (gentoo)
Perl 5.34 upgrade now stable - 2021-07-20 (gentoo)
new ppc64 profiles - 2021-07-17 (gentoo)
PulseEffects-5+ are now media-sound/easyeffects - 2021-07-16 (gentoo)
systemd-tmpfiles replaces deprecated opentmpfiles - 2021-07-15 (gentoo)
USE flag 'pax_kernel' to be renamed to 'pax-kernel' - 2021-06-28 (gentoo)
Removal of deprecated features - 2021-06-23 (gitlab)
Relative URL support added - 2021-06-22 (gitlab)
riscv upgrade to 20.0 profiles - 2021-06-20 (gentoo)
sys-libs/db old SLOT removal - 2021-05-30 (gentoo)
>=net-p2p/syncthing-1.17.0 incompatibility warning - 2021-05-18 (gentoo)
x86 support to be dropped from media-gfx/darktable - 2021-05-14 (gentoo)
Use the Git provided by Gitaly - 2021-05-05 (gitlab)
Exim>=4.94 transports: tainted not permitted - 2021-05-04 (gentoo)
Accepted Keywords Updates - 2021-04-15 (gitlab)
Workhorse is part of GitLab now - 2021-03-18 (gitlab)
Lost secrets.yml file - 2021-02-22 (gitlab)
The new /etc/gitlab - Update - 2021-02-22 (gitlab)
The new /etc/gitlab - 2021-02-14 (gitlab)
The gitlabhq -> gitlab migration - 2021-02-12 (gitlab)
Grand refactoring and renaming - 2021-02-10 (gitlab)
New OpenRC Display Manager Initializer Scripts - 2021-01-30 (gentoo)
Faster builds and post-upgrade cleanup - 2021-01-16 (gitlab)
Minimize upgrade downtime - 2021-01-08 (gitlab)
LibreSSL support discontinued - 2021-01-05 (gentoo)
MailRoom Support - 2020-12-31 (gitlab)
Sidekiq Cluster - 2020-12-25 (gitlab)
Puma support - 2020-12-21 (gitlab)
national instrument packages moved to natinst overlay - 2020-12-20 (science)
FHS compliant directory structure - 2020-12-17 (gitlab)
Gitaly is slotted now - 2020-12-09 (gitlab)
www-apps/gitlabhq-13.6.1 upgrade - 2020-12-08 (gitlab)
Package gitlab-runner-bin added - 2020-12-08 (gitlab)
This overlay is maintained again - 2020-12-05 (gitlab)
This overlay is out of maintainership - 2020-11-18 (gitlab)
kubernetes Split Packages Returning - 2020-10-06 (gentoo)
riscv multilib profile is going away - 2020-09-06 (gentoo)
xorg-server dropping default suid - 2020-06-24 (gentoo)
sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 upgrade - 2020-06-23 (gentoo)
Potential file collisions during OpenCL upgrade - 2020-04-22 (gentoo)
Desktop profile switching USE default to elogind - 2020-04-14 (gentoo)
new ppc64le (little-endian) profiles - 2020-04-04 (gentoo)
Deprecation of legacy X11 input drivers - 2020-04-03 (gentoo)
OpenSSH 8.2_p1 running sshd breakage - 2020-02-20 (gentoo)
Stable alpha keywords removed - 2020-01-23 (gentoo)
Genkernel 4 changed default filenames - 2019-12-30 (gentoo)
sys-boot/raspberrypi-firmware will not install device tree files - 2019-11-25 (gentoo)
sys-fs/cryfs-0.10.2 update - 2019-10-29 (gentoo)
new CPU_FLAGS_PPC USE_EXPAND - 2019-09-11 (gentoo)
>=app-emulation/wine-mono-4.8.1 - 2019-08-06 (bobwya)
Syncthing 1.2.0 and newer do not interoperate with 0.14.45 and older - 2019-07-18 (gentoo)
D compilers now installed to /usr/lib - 2019-06-12 (dlang)
amd64 17.1 profiles are now stable - 2019-06-05 (gentoo)
Change of ACCEPT_LICENSE default - 2019-05-23 (gentoo)
gap-4.10.1 upgrade - 2019-04-08 (sage-on-gentoo)
ARM 17.0 profile migration with CHOST change - 2018-09-07 (gentoo)
Migration required for OpenSSH with LDAP - 2018-08-07 (gentoo)
Portage rsync hardlink support - 2018-07-11 (gentoo)
Radicale 2 requires pre-install migration - 2018-04-02 (gentoo)
Portage rsync tree verification - 2018-01-30 (gentoo)
systemd sysv-utils blocker resolution - 2018-01-23 (gentoo)
GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change - 2018-01-14 (gentoo)
New 17.0 profiles in the Gentoo repository - 2017-11-30 (gentoo)
No stable KEYWORDS for Gentoo Games - 2017-11-22 (gentoo)
Multilib support for slotted Boost - 2017-11-17 (vayerx)
OpenRC "service" binary removal - 2017-10-13 (gentoo)
Third-party modules are splitted-out of NginX ebuild since now - 2017-10-12 (mva)
app-portage/gentoolkit-dev deprecation and removal - 2017-09-19 (gentoo)
sys-kernel/hardened-sources removal - 2017-08-19 (gentoo)
systemd rootprefix migration - 2017-07-16 (gentoo)
binutils 2.28 breaks dmd shared objects - 2017-07-06 (dlang)
app-emulation/wine split and slotting - 2017-04-10 (gentoo)
new package dev-go/dde-go-essential - 2017-03-26 (gentoo-zh)
=mail-mta/exim-4.88 problem with chunking - 2017-03-01 (gentoo)
runit-2.1.2-r1 updates - 2017-02-27 (powerman)
KEYWORDS reset to ~arch - 2017-02-27 (powerman)
Yandex-browser is removed in honour of overlay - 2016-10-24 (mva)
Default version of installed Boost will NOT be updated - 2016-03-09 (vayerx)
Cleanup of Gitlab ebuilds - 2016-02-09 (fritteli)
Upgrade to gitlab-ce-8.3.2 - 2016-01-02 (fritteli)
Default USE-flags and subslots of slotted dev-libs/boost were changed - 2015-12-28 (vayerx)
Upgrade to gitlab-ce-8.2.0 - 2015-11-23 (fritteli)
Package rename: www-apps/gitlabhq -> www-apps/gitlab-ce - 2015-10-26 (fritteli)
All ToX-related stuff is removed in honour of overlay - 2014-11-06 (mva)
All Activehome-related stuff is moved (or start moving) to other overlay - 2012-11-29 (mva)
app-text/xetex remove - 2012-07-12 (gentoo-zh)
Moving of the bumblebee and related stuff - 2012-04-21 (mva)
Moving of Lua stuff to other overlay - 2012-04-21 (mva)
Remaking of ZEN-sources ebuild - 2012-04-21 (mva)
octave-forge packages removed from science overlay - 2010-11-04 (science)
Webcam now available on Asahi - 0001-01-01 (asahi)

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