Sculpt OS release 25.04 Apr 29, 2025

Sculpt OS 25.04 brings compatibility with Intel's Meteor-Lake hardware, introduces multi-monitor window management and display rotation, and is accompanied by a major update of the Chromium web engine.

Incorporating all the technical advancements of the framework releases 24.11 and 25.02, Sculpt OS has now become compatible to Intel's Meteor-Lake hardware, leverages modern IOMMU features, and benefits from recent SIMD-based graphics optimizations.

Usability-wise, the new version comes with two highly anticipated features. First, building upon the multi-monitor support added with the previous release, the new version takes multi-monitor awareness to the window management level, allowing for the flexible assignment of virtual desktops to physical displays, adding new window-manipulation conveniences, and supporting rotated displays. Second, a new directory browser allows the user to interactively assign arbitrary directories as file systems to components, vastly easing the fine-grained sandboxing of subsystems.

For staying on the heels of the modern web, an updated version of the Falkon web browser has become readily available. This version is based on the Chromium engine version 112 and Qt 6.6.2.

In tandem with the Sculpt OS release, the Goa SDK has been updated, targeting the new version by default while introducing sandboxed builds. Thanks to this new confinement, complex 3rd-party build systems can no longer accidentally affect any part of the host system outside the respective project directory. This, in turn, gives developers peace of mind when bringing more and more sophisticated and often unfathomable complex software stacks to Genode.

Sculpt OS 25.04 is available as ready-to-use system image for PC hardware, the PinePhone, and the MNT Reform laptop at the Sculpt download page accompanied with updated documentation.