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Sculpt OS 25.10 improves performance, updates device drivers, and accepts a new human-readable configuration format.

While version 25.10 looks the same as version 25.04 it might feel different as it includes countless under-the-hood improvements of the two preceding framework releases. User interaction on performance-starved platforms like the PinePhone has become visibly smoother thanks our recent CPU scheduling advances. The streamlined block-storage stack combined with various refinements of the package-installation mechanism make the on-target installation of 3rd-party components a bliss. Regarding supported hardware, we steadily follow the tireless work of the Linux kernel community. All PC driver components using Linux kernel code are now consistently based on kernel version 6.12.

As tribute to the roadmap's "clarity" theme, Sculpt OS 25.10 promises a new level of clarity and simplicity for text-based user interaction. In addition to the time-tested use of XML as format for configuration and status reporting, the new version accepts a human-oriented alternative specifically designed for the needs of Sculpt OS. Whereas the official release still leans on XML by default, we provide an evaluation variant that consistently uses the new format. Sculpt's flexible system-update mechanism allows users to seamlessly switch back and forth between both variants. So we can gather feedback about the new format before potentially making it the default for the next release.