This Month in Redox – December 2025

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Redox OS celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2025, with over 1,000 members in its Matrix Chat community.
Significant progress was made in 2025, including steps toward Wayland support, hardware-accelerated graphics, and running Redox on a smartphone.
Compliance testing, particularly with the os-test suite, helped identify and fix non-conformances, improving system stability and program portability.
Funding efforts raised $37,000, supporting Redox Summer of Code, part-time roles, and infrastructure.
Three NGI Zero-funded projects focused on Unix-style signals, capability-based security, and io_uring-like IO, enhancing system stability, security, and performance.
The Redox OS board of directors was announced, with roles including president, treasurer, secretary, and director.
A trademark policy was adopted to protect the Redox OS name from misuse.
Development highlights included the first GPU driver for Intel GPUs, Linux DRM support, and dynamic linking on ARM64.
System improvements covered kernel, driver, relibc, and RedoxFS enhancements, alongside testing and build system optimizations.
Documentation updates and CI fixes improved the project's reliability and accessibility.

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