LinuxCNC 2.9.7 Release

LinuxCNC 2.9.7 released 26 October 2025. LinuxCNC 2.9.7 has been released.
This is another bug-fix release to fix an unexpected interaction in a previous bugfix. (In this case the driver for the popular XHC pendants was incompatible with changes made to HALUI pin creation)
In addition changes to the CI (continuous integration) in Github mean that the install debs will be available from the LinuxCNC Github repository under the "releases tab"

This update is for all users, but especially users of the XHC pendants and Gmoccapy.

Packages for 2.9-uspace for amd64 (PC) and arm64 (Pi) for Debian Buster, Bullseye, Bookworm, Trixie and Sid have been added to the linuxcnc repository.
If you installed from one of our live images or Pi SD-card images then the update should be available immediately. The install script here: linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/getting-st...th_preempt_rt_kernel has been
augmented with a version for Trixie updated to include a new, longer key required by Debian versions from Trixie onwards.
(A combined script is undergoing testing, www.linuxcnc.org/linuxcnc-install-test.sh if you have a working Debian (Buster through to Trixie) install and want to install LinuxCNC on it)
At the moment the live-image installer and SD card images will install 2.9.4 but update should be trivial (and possibly automatic). Updated images are in-progress. RTAI is still supported, but in the short term building from source is likely to be the most expedient way to get 2.9.7 on that platform. Changelog

• [ci] publish releases with artifacts - GitHub now builds release deb
• Revert 7d9ee66 to address #3583 - halui functions stop working in 2.9.5/6
• Merge pull request #3512 from Sigma1912/patch-1
• Gmoccapy: Fix arrow key up/down bug in tooleditor

Acknowledgements As always, we couldn’t do this without the contributions from the community, so many thanks:
Konstantin Tcepliaev
Sigma1912