Changes

• Rebase to Fedora 39
• Build process no longer relies on Red Hat's Live Image Creator, switched to our in-house builder; Katsu.
• Various fixes for live image startup scripts
• speech-dispatcherd is now disabled, TTS is now handled by other means
• When importing COPR repositories, DNF now finally uses Fedora repos instead of EPEL
• New wallpaper @Aikoyori
• Slightly refreshed looks on Flagship Edition
• Default typeface is now Inter instead of Cantarell
• Various Pantheon fixes
• Install some elementary apps from appcenter, when available
• Fix issues with XDG portals
• Fix bug where wallpapers would not properly apply
• Ultramarine is now available in even more formats than just a bootable ISO image!
• Ultramarine Minimal image as a RAW disk image (8GB sparse file, EXT4 formatted)
  • ARM edition of Ultramarine Minimal can be flashed onto the Raspberry Pi!
• OSTree edition (in beta) has finally been reintroduced, now available as Docker/OCI images.
• Ultramarine Chromebook images (in progress)
• Introduces Stellar, our automatic post-install driver manager
• Currently installs drivers for NVIDIA, if a NVIDIA GPU is detected

Further details and notes are on our blog post: https://blog.fyralabs.com/ultramarine-39-released

Downloads & Upgrading

ISOs can be downloaded from the Ultramarine website, or from our CDN.

To upgrade from a Ultramarine 38 install, run these commands:

:::bash
sudo dnf upgrade
sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
sudo dnf system-upgrade download -y --allowerasing --releasever=39
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

Existing Fedora 39 users may migrate to Ultramarine using our script:

:::bash
bash <(curl -s https://ultramarine-linux.org/migrate.sh)

Thanks

Thank you for being a user of Ultramarine Linux! If you need support, please join our Discord or Matrix. We're also posting updates on Twitter and Mastodon/Fedi. If you'd like to support our work, please check out our GitHub sponsors page!