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RakuOS 2026.08.22: meet rum, our own package manager

August 22, 2026 · Announcements

This release's headline is a big one: RakuOS now has its own native package manager, rum. It's not a side project sitting off to the edge of the system, it's the backend now powering package installs and removals in both RakuOS Software and RakuOS Welcome, and it's steadily taking over from dnf everywhere else too.

RakuOS 2026.08.22 Changelog

August 22, 2026 · Announcements

New native Rust package manager, rum, built specifically for RakuOS's overlay architecture. See the https://rakuos.org/blog/release-2026-08-22 for the full writeup.

Introducing Rum, RakuOS's own package manager

August 12, 2026 · Announcements

For most of its life, RakuOS relied on dnf, the same package manager every other Fedora based system uses. That worked fine for a plain Fedora install, but RakuOS is not a plain Fedora install. It is an image based, overlay driven system, and dnf was never designed with that model in mind. Over time the gap between what dnf assumes and what RakuOS actually needs became too wide to paper over, so we built Rum: a native package manager written from scratch specifically for how RakuOS works.

RakuOS stance on Age Verification

August 9, 2026 · Announcements

**Illinois just signed HB 5511 — the "Children's Online Social Media Safety Act" — into law.** Buried inside the child-safety framing is a mandate that goes far beyond social media: by January 1, 2028, operating systems themselves have to build in an age-signal interface, collect an age category at account setup, and hand that signal to any app that asks for it. Not a website. Not an app. The **operating system**.

Welcome to the New Website

August 3, 2026 · Announcements

We're excited to welcome you to the redesigned RakuOS website! We've rebuilt things from the ground up to make it easier to find what you need — whether that's downloading the latest release, browsing documentation, or joining the conversation on the forum.