Asahi Linux merged Apple M3 support into its installer on September 6, 2026: the webcam, microphones, USB 3, hardware video decoding with AV1, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth work, but the GPU, sleep, and HDMI remain missing. Install in expert mode and wait for the GPU before making it a daily driver.
In early September 2026, developer Yureka Lilian posted the first Device Tree patches for the Apple A18 Pro SoC in the MacBook Neo, with support still limited to a single CPU core. It is the first concrete step toward Linux support on Apple’s entry-level laptop, but daily use is months away.
On August 28 2026 AWS made EC2 C8gn instances, powered by Graviton4 and capable of 600 Gbps of network bandwidth, available in the Europe (Paris) region. For teams running virtual network appliances or high-throughput analytics, this European expansion reshapes the cost-performance case for arm64.
Proxmox VE 9.2 is now natively available on ARM64 (aarch64), sharing a single package repository with x86-64. Raspberry Pi is not yet officially supported, but RK3588 boards and Apple Silicon Macs are ready today.
Docker promoted Buildx Bake to general availability with Docker Desktop 4.38, eliminating the last barrier to multi-platform builds for teams still juggling separate per-architecture scripts.
