We are pleased to announce the May 2026 release of openRuyi.

This month, openRuyi continued to expand the desktop experience, core system stack, and package ecosystem for RISC-V platforms.

Secure Boot is an important mechanism for establishing a trusted verification chain during system startup. For system adaptation, firmware debugging, and boot process validation on RISC-V platforms, a reproducible configuration workflow helps developers understand the trust relationships among boot components.

Based on the openRuyi Documentation Center guide, "Enable Secure Boot on openRuyi"^[1], this article uses the openRuyi UEFI firmware and the openRuyi Server edition QCOW2 image as examples to outline the main steps for configuring Secure Boot in a QEMU environment. The process begins with preparing the firmware and system image.

Recently, Yuechi Sun, an engineer at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, became the RISC-V architecture maintainer for DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). His maintenance scope has expanded from the previous RVV (RISC-V Vector Extension) subsystem to the entire RISC-V architecture.

openRuyi is a native Linux distribution for the RISC-V architecture, with a focus on performance, security, AI, and cloud-native workloads. The rolling-release version of openRuyi tracks the latest upstream baseline and is committed to building best practices for cutting-edge standards and software applications on RISC-V.

We are pleased to announce the April 2026 release of openRuyi.

openRuyi made steady progress across the kernel, boot stack, package ecosystem, and build infrastructure for RISC-V platforms in this release.

We are truly thrilled to share the news of our first openRuyi release! We appreciate your support and enthusiasm as we embark on this journey together.

The majority of packages in this release are compatible with the rva23u64 target, featuring LTO enabled and using -mtune=generic-ooo as the default tuning option.