Last Updated on: 16th February 2026, 03:00 pm
There is the second update available for Sparky 8 – 8.2. This is a quarterly update of the Sparky 8 “Seven Sisters” stable release. Sparky 8 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 13 “Trixie”.
Main changes:
– All packages updated from the stable Debian and Sparky repositories as of February 14, 2026.
– Linux kernel: 6.12.69-LTS (6.19.1, 6.12.72 LTS, 6.6.125-LTS in sparky repositories)
– LibreOffice 25.2.3
– KDE Plasma 6.3.6
– LXQt 2.1.0
– MATE 1.26.0
– Xfce 4.20
– Openbox 3.6.1
– Firefox 140.7.0esr (firefox-latest 147.0.4 in sparky repositories)
– Thunderbird 140.7.1esr
– fixed a small bug in the Openbox edition that prevented to launch a terminal emulator from a package manager
Sparky 8 “Seven Sisters” is available in the following versions:
– amd64 BIOS/UEFI + Secure Boot: Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode)
– ARM64: Openbox and CLI
PC live user:password = live:live
ARM user:password = pi:sparky
If you have Sparky 8 installed, simply keep it up to date. There’s no need to reinstall it.
Known issues:
– ARM64: Wi-Fi may not be active after the first boot; you must restart the system to automatically enable Wi-Fi.
New Sparky 8 “Seven Sisters” ISO images can be downloaded from the download/stable page.
Informacja o wydaniu w języku polskim: https://linuxiarze.pl/sparky-8-2/
