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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,

It is with great pleasure that the Devuan Developers hereby announce the
release of Devuan Excalibur 6.0 as the project's newest stable release.
This is the result of lots of painstaking work by the team and extensive
testing by the wider Devuan community.

INSTALLATION and DOCUMENTATION

Whether you are upgrading an existing Devuan install, migrating from
Debian or installing from scratch, instructions and guidance can be
found online:

- https://devuan.org/os/install
- https://devuan.org/get-devuan

Packages, netboot images and installation media are available through a
resilient network of:

- http package mirrors (http://deb.devuan.org or choose manually from
  https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt)
- http, https, ftp, and rsync ISO mirrors
- torrent and magnet

Please take time to read the Release Notes. They include important
configuration information and tips to help your install or upgrade go as
smoothly as possible.

- https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalib … _notes.txt

For the impatient, you can go straight to the package and sources.list
information or the installation media downloads:

- https://devuan.org/os/packages
- https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalibur/

RESOURCES and SUPPORT

- Mailing list: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/m … stinfo/dng
- IRC: #devuan #devuan-dev #devuan-arm (Libera)
- Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org
- Press contact: freedom at devuan dot org
- Source code: https://git.devuan.org
- Bug tracker: https://bugs.devuan.org
- Package information: https://pkginfo.devuan.org
- Popularity contest: https://popcon.devuan.org

AFTER EXCALIBUR

The next Devuan release, 7.0, is codenamed Freia. Repositories are
already available for the adventurous to test.

APPRECIATION

We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to Devuan.
Without your help and feedback, Devuan could not be the reliable and
versatile distribution that it is.

To support the Devuan project you can examine our financial reports and
donate at:
  https://devuan.org/os/donate
or take up one of the tasks listed at 'How you can help Devuan':
  https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1380#p1380

The Devuan Team

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,350  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Great news. Congratulations to the team. Can't appreciate your work enough.

tux_99

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Registered: 2025-06-17

Posts: 32  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Thank you very much for all your efforts, I was waiting eagerly for this release and will be installing and exploring it in the next few days as soon as I find some time for it.

lunariansia

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Registered: 2025-10-28

Posts: 1  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Woo! I've been waiting for it's release for a long time! Already installed it...!

0XFAB

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Registered: 2025-08-01

Posts: 1  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Thanks all Devuan team for this. I hope to help more in a near future, going full Devuan now.

Last edited by 0XFAB (2025-11-03 22:38:46)

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 233  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

To all the developers, supporters, testers and community: Congratulations and Thank You.
The Devuan-Team is the greatest community I know in the computer-world.
André

greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Nice work y'all!!!:D

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mns

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Registered: 2018-02-03

Posts: 3  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Congratulations !!!!!

Thank you Devuan Team, for the hard work!!!

zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

Posts: 1,165  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Wondered when you guys were going to release the new stable.

Now I just wait for gnuinos to have the same version.

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mclien

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Registered: 2020-02-29

Posts: 139  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Thanks a lot to all the folks that make this work!!

Did the update just a few days ago.

Eeqmcsq

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Registered: 2017-09-19

Posts: 73  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Looking forward to installing Excalibur on some mini PCs so I can start doing useful and productive things on them.

* Edit:
I just ran a sudo apt-get update where I was testing Excalibur RC1. I got this:

N: Repository 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'stable'
N: Repository 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing-security' to 'stable-security'
N: Repository 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing-updates' to 'stable-updates'

Last edited by Eeqmcsq (2025-11-03 00:14:29)

genxr

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Registered: 2022-12-08

Posts: 12  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Congratulations and special thanks to the Devuan-Team. I have installed the stable Excalibur yesterday, and it seems to be in fine shape already.

Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 499  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Thanks to all involved in getting this released....

kaiyel

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Registered: 2019-10-16

Posts: 31  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Wonderful !!!  Thanks Devuan Peeps !!!

SlowDancer

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Registered: 2024-07-01

Posts: 5  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Congratulations to everyone involved in the project. I will migrate my main desktop PC once I finish my Master's degree, hopefully.

Last edited by SlowDancer (2025-11-03 14:29:07)

Codalunga

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Registered: 2025-08-05

Posts: 12  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Let's gooo!
Now waiting for the new Trinity Desktop version to come out, then I can perform a fresh install.
Thank you folks for your hard work, it's much appreciated.

entropyagent

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Registered: 2020-05-15

Posts: 49  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Congratulations and thanks to the Devuan Team.

mweishaar

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Registered: 2018-11-11

Posts: 47  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Nice!  When I get the time to read through all the notes I will upgrade to this version. My original install was ASCII back in 2018 and I've been dist-upgrading since then.

Calamity

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Registered: 2021-10-23

Posts: 14  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Everything went well with the upgrade. Thank you for your hard work, Devuan Team!

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KnightTemplar

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Registered: 2025-06-26

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Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Kudos to all the devuan team for making this possible!

Last edited by KnightTemplar (2025-11-06 00:44:57)

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KnightTemplar

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Registered: 2025-06-26

Posts: 15  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Brian Lunduke on the release of Devuan 6 Excalibur, enjoy!

Devuan 6.0 Released: No Systemd & Non-Woke Debian!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfa_SZyltyc

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JayneCobb

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Registered: 2025-08-18

Posts: 4  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Thanks Devuan Team, and congrats! I upgraded to Excalibur on the 3rd (11/3/25) right after the announcement. The upgrade was smooth and I had ZERO issues. It has been working great so far and is stable! I will be making another donation to Devuan for all your hard work. I really appreciate the team's dedication to this project!

lynch9

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Registered: 2024-07-17

Posts: 27  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Amazing release. Thank you, Devuan team.

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florian

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Registered: 2017-05-26

Posts: 1  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Thank you, great - two flawless upgrades, once again!

Also the suggested migration to pipewire-audio appears to have been a good move - at least after having created the following file to auto-start the subsystem:

florian@nulldevice:~$ cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90pipewire-audio 
# kill any existing pipewire instance
pkill -u "$USER" -fx /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse 1>/dev/null 2>&1
pkill -u "$USER" -fx /usr/bin/wireplumber 1>/dev/null 2>&1
pkill -u "$USER" -fx /usr/bin/pipewire 1>/dev/null 2>&1

exec /usr/bin/pipewire &

# wait for pipewire to start
while [ "$(pgrep -f /usr/bin/pipewire)" = "" ] ; do
   sleep 1
done

exec /usr/bin/wireplumber &
exec /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse &

(via https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/ … l#msg45598)

NB, as gimp 3 still seems not to provide an xsane plug-in: https://yingtongli.me/git/gimp-xsanecli works perfectly fine "for me" (resp. my 'lide 20' USB scanner) - I am tempted to say: better than ever!

florian@nulldevice:~$ head -n1 /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb cdrom:[devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_netinst]/ ascii main non-free

florian@nulldevice:~$ ssh nullmobil head -n1 /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb cdrom:[devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_netinst]/ ascii main non-free

<3

bigcat

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Registered: 2023-05-10

Posts: 33  

Re: Announcing Devuan 6.0 Excalibur!

Great news, thank you!

Could you please comment on the list of banned packages, in particular, libvirt* which is marked as C = excalibur-proposed-updates

Does this mean it will be "unbanned" and available for installation at some point?

Thank you.