SliTaz News
June 2026 - Full package rebuild toward SliTaz 5.1
June 2026
Every cooking package is being rebuilt from scratch to produce a fresh stable release, SliTaz 5.1, and bring back the proven Stable + Cooking development model.
May 2026 - TazLab, floppy boot, Cook 4.1 and 428 commits
May 2026
TazLab lets you cook SliTaz from any Linux host. 2026 style across all subdomains. floppy.slitaz.org is live. Cook 4.1 brings a BSD-style tool split and a new ncurses TUI.
March 2026 - New website, 64-bit ahead, and SliTaz 2046
March 2026
SliTaz turns 20. New website launched, 64-bit is priority #1, SliTaz Core Signal group is live. And a look ahead: what does SliTaz look like in 2046?
December 2025 - Infrastructure migration and domain renewal
December 2025
Shann successfully migrated all SliTaz infrastructure to new servers. Pankso renewed the project domains for the years ahead. The project is on solid ground.
2024 - Development update and 64-bit work
2024
Some packages are aging but development is still active. Stanislas Leduc (Shann) is working on a full native 64-bit version of SliTaz — a complete rebuild of the toolchain and wok for a pure 64-bit target.
December 2022 - Community update
December 2022
Stanislas Leduc (Shann) steps up to manage the infrastructure and starts his wok-current branch. Pankso and the contributors keep the project running. Pascal Bellard, Hans-Günter Theisgen and many others continue to actively contribute. The forum and community are thriving.
April 15, 2020 - SliTaz stands with the global community
April 15, 2020
During these challenging times of the global pandemic, the SliTaz team wants to express its solidarity with all affected individuals and communities around the world.
We hope that everyone stays safe and healthy. Our thoughts are with the healthcare workers, essential employees, and all those on the front lines.
The SliTaz project continues to provide a free, lightweight operating system for those who need it, especially in educational and resource-constrained environments.
March 16, 2018 - SliTaz is now a rolling release distribution
March 16, 2018
SliTaz has transitioned to a rolling release model. This means the distribution no longer follows traditional numbered releases, but is continuously updated instead.
We now provide two branches: Rolling (stable), a weekly tested and stabilized version, and Cooking (development), with the latest features in real-time.
May 20, 2015 - SliTaz 5.0 RC-3 release
May 20, 2015
The SliTaz team is pleased to announce the new SliTaz 5.0-RC3 release candidate. We have done a huge amount of work fixing bugs from RC2 with about 2500 commits in our Mercurial repositories.
February 16, 2014 - New SliTaz Cooking Release
February 16, 2014
The SliTaz team is proud to announce the release of a new Cooking version which paves the road to SliTaz 5.0. This new Cooking includes almost 2 years of work and an incredible ChangeLog.
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