AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform — Release Notes

Release Notes as of September 3, 2026

Release Details: August 2026 Release

System Image release: Updates as of Thursday September 3, 2026

System Image baseline: Debian 13 (Trixie), version 13.6 (released July 11, 2026) + further updates

System Image kernel: Linux version 6.18.44+rex+5-amd64

These Release Notes are specific to this release and information included here might already be superseded by changes included in more recent software updates. Please consult AMD Ryzen AI Developer Center ("Developer Center") to access the latest Release Notes available and all the features of the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform.

System naming

Field Description
Full AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 (rex)
Name AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform
Version 1
Codename rex
Symbol¹ amd-ryzen-ai-developer-platform

¹ Used in filenames etc. as a component.

Highlights

Current Stack Versions

The versions provided as part of this update have been validated by AMD and partners to ensure the current stack works seamlessly.
Component Current Version Details
ROCm 7.14 ROCm release:
https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.14.0/release/changelog.html
Developer Center 1.3.0 Developer Center release
Kernel 6.18.44 Linux kernel release:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.18.44
BIOS 3.04 System BIOS release
ComfyUI 0.21.1 Rebuilt against new ROCm 7.14
fwupd 2.1.4-1 No change
ggml 0.13.1-1 Rebuilt against new ROCm 7.14
llama.cpp 9413+dfsg-1 No change
Lemonade 11.5.0-1 Upgraded from 10.5.1-0
https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/releases/tag/v11.5.0
Node.js 20.19.2+dfsg-1 No change
Python3 3.13.5-1 No change
PyTorch 2.10.0-0 Rebuilt against new ROCm 7.14
TorchAudio 2.10.0-0 Rebuilt against new ROCm 7.14
TorchVision 0.25.0-0 Rebuilt against new ROCm 7.14
vLLM 0.22.1 Upgraded from 0.21.1 for compatibility with ROCm 7.14
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases/tag/v0.22.1
amd-debug-tools 0.2.20-1 Upgraded from 0.2.17-1

New Features

  • ROCm 7.14
  • Developer Center v1.3.0
    • (New Feature) RGB tuning for Lightbar: Change the LED color on the box from the settings tab.
    • (New Feature) Suspend inhibition: If enabled, prevents sleep during active SSH sessions or GPU workloads. Available to toggle on the settings tab.
  • Lemonade 11.5.0
    • New benchmark command lemonade bench
    • Improve support of real time stats monitoring
    • Audio generation arrives with the ThinkSound sound-effects and ACE-Step music backends
    • Text-to-speech arrives with the OpenMOSS backend
    • Support of ModelScope as a second remote model registry alongside Hugging Face
    • https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/releases#release-v11.5.0
  • vLLM 0.22.1

Bug Fixes

  • Apple Studio Display TBT3 Monitor on JUSBC2/3 port cannot light up
  • Fix display freezing when hotplugging HDMI cable
  • Fix too large GTT value allocated
  • Hardening of the amd-halo-gnome-default-extensions package conf scripts and makefile
  • mt792x: Fix a potential deadlock in high-load situations
  • Add tiling support to mutter
  • Fix an issue with 8K displays
  • Fix kernel crash when using a wrong HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION
  • Improve support for Apple Studio Display
  • More robust snapshot process
  • Fix XHCI / GPU race condition on Strix Halo
  • Fix broken bluetooth mt7925
  • Fix wifi unable to be turned off from gnome control center
  • Fix totem (video player) issue due to a too old database
  • Add quirk to reset host interface on DMA path teardown for AMD USB4 routers
  • Add sysfs attribute for boot integrity
  • Install podman-compose by default
  • Add AMDI0112 ACPI ID support
  • Fix deadlock during thunderbolt hotplug
  • Fix WoL from S5

Security Fixes

  • Kernel CVE fixes included (non-exhaustive list)
  • cpp-httplib CVE fixes included (non-exhaustive list)
  • GNOME Display Manager (GDM)
    • Disable XDMCP support in GDM due to security issues
    • Fix security in GDM autologin
  • halo-recovery-ui
    • Avoid logging the full request just in case the connection dictionary has some sensitive data
  • plymouth
    • Multiple security issues

Tips and known issues:

  • The /efi partition may become full if old kernels are not deleted manually. This can be achieved with sudo apt autoremove for instance.
  • Updating packages from the Developer Center (halo-lp) may cause the PC to restart before all the packages have been downloaded. Therefore, halo-lp continues to notify users of available updates without applying them. This has been fixed in the new version halo-lp version. A workaround, to break the loop, is exceptionally to apply updates with sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade.

Previous release notes: