CONSTRUCT 20261013.2

CONSTRUCT 20261013.2

Built 2026-10-14 · GNOME Shell 51.0-r1 · Mesa 26.2.4-r2

Changes

6 changes since v20261013.1.

image

• /var comes down at shutdown, its journal no longer replayed
• run -poweroff, to look at the disks a shutdown leaves

agents

• what pins /var at shutdown, and how to see it

deps

• bump the go group with 5 updates (#13)

kernel

• xtables' IPv4 and IPv6 families for iptables-nft

var

• ext4 made with the verity feature

Packages

982 packages: 2 updated, 0 added, 0 removed.

Updated

• firefox 157.0.1-r0 → 158.0-r0
• vim 9.2.1178-r0 → 9.2.1186-r0

Security

Grype over the release's root, on the day it was built:

severity	a version fixes it	nobody has yet
Critical	0	0
High	0	0
Medium	0	8
Low	0	0
Negligible	0	0
Unknown	0	0

The whole report is grype.md; Grype's own, grype.json; the packages, sbom.spdx.json.

Checked

• test: 507 of 507 checks passed
• lifecycle: 65 of 65 checks passed

Get it

An installed machine takes it by itself from its channel, and starts it at its next reboot.
A new machine: the USB stick, https://dl.constructlinux.org/construct_20261013.2.raw.xz, in the signed https://dl.constructlinux.org/SHA256SUMS; how to check it and write it to a stick is the README's Install.

Every file is in SHA256SUMS, signed with the release key (release.pgp):

gpg --import release.pgp && gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg SHA256SUMS && sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS