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Gentoo Linux's 2025 year in review highlights significant developments including 112,927 commits to the main repository, four new developers joining the team, and major technical improvements. Key achievements include EAPI 9 finalization, migration planning from GitHub to Codeberg, new RISC-V bootable images, official WSL support, and improved Rust bootstrap using mrustc. The distribution now offers 31,663 ebuilds for 19,174 packages with 89GB of binary packages for amd64. Infrastructure improvements include GnuPG alternatives support (FreePG, Sequoia-PGP), NGINX packaging rework, FlexiBLAS adoption, and Python 3.13 as default. The Gentoo Foundation received $12,066 in donations with $104,831 in reserves, while continuing migration to Software in the Public Interest for financial management.

2025 in retrospect & happy new year 2026! – Gentoo Linux