there’s a world of options. this is an LTS distro. use Arch or Nix or whatever if you want the latest packages. i actually switched to NixOS because the CUDA drivers were too new on Arch, and i wanted a better way to pin versions.

or i dunno keep publicly complaining about it until someone does the work for you

I don’t think I know what rocm is 🤪

Especially with the newer ROCm 7.2.x releases improving hardware support and other improvements. Especially with the rate of improvements to ROCm recently, it's unfortunate to see ROCm 7.1 shipped in the Ubuntu 26.04 archive.

Improvements!

But yeah, 3 months out of date for software that isn't security critical is fine. Probably just hit the feature freeze at a bad time. It still presumably works well enough for most people.

Rocmuh balls

Why is this surprising? I would be more surprised if it didn't.

Being old != bad. Some software is not critical in terms of cyber security. You have to assess the use case. Feels like you're screaming wolf, without knowing the package.

Ehh. 7.1 isnt that old. If they don't make any newer available until 28.04, then this'll just be a major baseline. It'll nice regardless just if it leads to more rocm support. The package and maintainers are in place for this to keep going every 6 months

The most success I had at getting rocm working was just using containers.

Rocm is the singular worst piece of software I've ever used

Just build it from source, then

Hot take: Windows handles this stuff so much better.

Surprise! A Debian based distro uses antique packages! Who would have seen that coming? 🙀 /s

Yeah... Ubuntu packages are never up to date on release date. They freeze them months before so they can iron out any bugs with the versions they picked. You don't pick Ubuntu or any point release distro to get up to date packages.

Damn. Even today there is yet a new release again of rocm. We need to compile it constantly from source.

Apt packages aren't build for this current era of fast shipping and improvements.