# Flox 1.7.8 is now available!

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**Created:** [December 3, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-1-7-8-is-now-available/1221 "2025-12-03T21:54:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![blevine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.flox.dev/blevine/32/724_2.png) [@blevine](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/blevine)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-1-7-8-is-now-available/1221/1 "2025-12-03T21:54:54Z")

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Hey everyone, we’ve just made Flox 1.7.8 available!

This release fixes a bug where programs would fail with `Cannot allocate memory in static TLS block` due to new nixpkgs PIE defaults. This fixes issues with `rustfmt` on aarch64-linux and improves overall stability of dev-mode activations.

Full notes and links at [Release v1.7.8 · flox/flox · GitHub](https://github.com/flox/flox/releases/tag/v1.7.8)

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**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-1-7-8-is-now-available/1221/2 "2025-12-03T22:03:40Z")

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**Author:** ![robinbrantley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.flox.dev/robinbrantley/32/39_2.png) [@robinbrantley](https://discourse.flox.dev/u/robinbrantley)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.flox.dev/t/flox-1-7-8-is-now-available/1221/3 "2025-12-17T13:14:32Z")

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