diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-04-08-09-11-32.gh-issue-132257.oZWBV-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-04-08-09-11-32.gh-issue-132257.oZWBV-.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..5bf20d2f1d0d22
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Change the default LTO flags on GCC to not pass ``-flto-partition=none``, and allow parallelization of LTO. For newer GNU makes and GCC, this has a multiple factor speedup for LTO build times, with no noticeable loss in performance.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 1b75ddfa26dcdd..ead65916b7034b 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -8896,7 +8896,7 @@ fi
           LTOCFLAGS="-flto"
           ;;
         *)
-          LTOFLAGS="-flto -fuse-linker-plugin -ffat-lto-objects -flto-partition=none"
+          LTOFLAGS="-flto -fuse-linker-plugin -ffat-lto-objects"
           ;;
       esac
       ;;
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c449bb5ebb3cd4..30b4f512ba611c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@ if test "$Py_LTO" = 'true' ; then
           LTOCFLAGS="-flto"
           ;;
         *)
-          LTOFLAGS="-flto -fuse-linker-plugin -ffat-lto-objects -flto-partition=none"
+          LTOFLAGS="-flto -fuse-linker-plugin -ffat-lto-objects"
           ;;
       esac
       ;;