SLFS News

This section covers noteworthy changes in SLFS. In addition to the entries in the book's changelog, relevant changes you should be aware of are reported here.

SLFS 12.4 has been released!

Zeckma - 2025/08/31

The GLFS team is proud to present version 12.4 of Supplemental Linux From Scratch (previously LFS-QOL). This version includes over 140 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch books.

New in this release includes the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), Wayfire, Mupen64Plus, the Dolphin emulator, MelonDS, mGBA, PrismLauncher the Minecraft launcher, OpenJDK-17 LTS, socat, neofetch, fastfetch, htop, BTOP++, GNAT (GCC-Ada), CUDA, nv-codec-headers, Alacritty, scdoc, rpmextract, tllist, foot, wbg, uthash, OBS-Studio, xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, libdatachannel, asio, QR-Code-Generator, websocketpp, eza, tmux, Rofi, Rofi-Wayland, Wofi, Dunst, cava, xeyes, yt-dlp, inxi, tealdeer, Mesa-Demos, xcb-imdkit, cldr-emoji-annotation, libime, Anthy, m17n, Fcitx5, OpenTTD, sxwm, nvchecker, rubberband, SDL3, sdl2-compat, libmspack, Winetricks, xtrace, ncdu, wev, Intel-MediaSDK, intel-onevpl, libvpl, libvpl-tools, and several dependencies.

seatd and xcb-util-errors were from Gaming Linux From Scratch that got moved to this book in this release.

There has been extensive efforts to ensure compatibility with Mesa libGL and libglvnd libOpenGL. In some cases like GLU, this version offers duplicates of packages from BLFS to ensure compatibility. In other cases like with OBS-Studio, patches or seds have been constructed to allow an unsupported OpenGL vendor like Mesa libGL. This makes this version compatible with both Beyond Linux From Scratch and Gaming Linux From Scratch.

Beyond package additions are some other important changes. The entire book has been rearranged to be more akin to the form of Beyond Linux From Scratch to make organization of the book easier. Documentation has been improved and dependency information has been made more accurate. A new logo has been added, along with a CSS color change to have a more green look. Different configurations have been considered and build failures have been fixed. Beyond all that, some typos have been fixed.

This release may not be matched in terms of scale in proceeding releases. The amount of package additions, including moved packages from GLFS, reaches over 100 packages, over 3x the amount seen in version 12.3.

This is a coordinated release with SLFS-12.4-systemd.

You can read the 12.4 version via download.

For any issues, please direct them to the issue tracker.