The 8th update of Sparky 7 – 7.8 is out.
It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” of the stable line. Sparky 7 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 “Bookworm”.
Changes:
– all packages updated from Debian and Sparky stable repos as of July 14, 2025
– Linux kernel PC: 6.1.140-LTS (6.15.6, 6.12.38-LTS, 6.6.98-LTS in sparky repos)
– LibreOffice 7.4.7 (25.2.3 in Debian backports repos)
– KDE Plasma 5.27.5
– LXQt 1.2.0
– MATE 1.26
– Xfce 4.18
– Openbox 3.6.1
– Firefox 128.12.0esr (140.0.4 in sparky repos)
– Thunderbird 128.12.0esr
– fixed problem with conflicted libs installed previously from debian-multimedia repos; it blocked installation of some packages, such as Gimp; to fix it manually, uninstall libavutil57 (v10:5.1.3) and its deps, and install it back (v7:5.1.6)
– anyway, Gimp is preinstalled now in live media
– ARM images are not updated, you can still use version 7.7
Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” is available in the following versions:
– amd64 BIOS/UEFI+Secure Boot: Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
– i686 non-pae BIOS/UEFI (Legacy): MinimalGUI (Openbox) & MinimalCLI (text mode)
– ARMHF & ARM64: Openbox & CLI
PC live user:password = live:live
ARM user:password = pi:sparky
If you have Sparky 7 installed – simply keep it up to date. No need to reinstall your OS.
New iso images of Sparky 7 “Orion Belt” can be downloaded from the /download/stable/ page
Informacja o wydaniu w języku polskim: https://linuxiarze.pl/sparky-7-8/
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Congrats on the new release! Just curious, is there a way to only see packages only from the Sparky-specific repository? I am not sure if I can do this in the APTUs software or Synaptic.
Thank you! 🙂
Great update. I suppose this means Sparky 8 will release in August.
is there a download for the non LTS installation or can i switch the kernels inside the live os and install 6.15.6 there??
You can install Sparky as it is, launch it from a hard drive, then install the latest kernel.
Great! Already use it!