There are fresh new releases of two of the more controversial and divisive projects in the Linux world for everyone to argue about… and then adopt anyway.

The one that's right here with us now is systemd version 258 . Back in July, when the first release candidate appeared, we published a deep dive into the new version and its many changes.

The reason that we took a longer look at this version in its release candidate stage was that it's a big release with a lot of changes. That's presumably also why it arrived late. So, it looks like it was too late for this spooky season's big betas. It's not mentioned in the release notes for Ubuntu 25.10 , and there's no mention of systemd in the Fedora 43 Change Set either.

Its delayed arrival may have knock-on effects, but it's too soon to tell. I

See Full Page