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Retiring stable-daily stream

· 2 min read
Juha Uotila
Lord of the Coneheads

Hello stargazers,

We have a small announcement to make regarding our stable-daily image streams.

Today we are going to retire that stream and won't be building it going forward. The stable-daily tag will be set to point to the stable stream, which means weekly system updates.

But Why?

We actually briefly mentioned this in our 2025 wrap-up post. When we started looking into the ways of implementing the upcoming testing branch, we realised that building daily images was a maintenance burden and caused too much friction with how we wanted these new streams to work.

As we mentioned, there is a plan to move us to a two-step process for how we build and test things. Currently we have to test everything on latest, and as some users prefer to use it as a "rolling" release for Fedora base, it sometimes can break.

Current users of stable-daily

The stable-daily stream is now pointed to stable, so you will still keep getting updates — but from now on they'll be based on weekly builds.

You don't have to do anything, however, we still recommend users rebase to the stable stream using the ujust rebase-helper. If you still want to receive daily updates then we would recommend you to rebase to the latest stream, the difference between stable-daily and latest is that the former has ZFS included and has an older Fedora CoreOS Kernel. See our docs.

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