Official ISO release 2026-11. Second official release for 2026. Post feedback at the forum announcement thread. Main release notes: Plasma has switched to Wayland and all related configuration for the Plasma and Community-Qt editions has been appropriately updated; user services have matured and been fully implemented for OpenRC and dinit, they can also be enabled for runit and s6 via userspawn, however, for the time being, this task is left to the end user; currently, only Plasma has full Wayland support, other desktop environments are in various stages of implementing it, but not yet ready for daily use - therefore, even if a Wayland session appears on the login manager, it probably will not work well if at all; the Plasma and Xfce gaming editions are still in beta status and shall remain in the weekly downloads section for further testing.
Version 2.17: add wallpaper carousel as a modern alternative to the wallpaper selector, open it with SUPER + W or with the new button to the left of the search field in the wallpaper selector; toggle floating for all windows of the workspace (SUPER + SHIFT + T) now arranges the floating windows in a grid with a 16px gap inside the free area of the monitor (respecting status bar and dock) instead of keeping their tiled or full screen size; add 'Window Mode' switch to the sidebar to select the window mode - off uses Tiling (default), on uses Floating; the packages listed in setup, packages, packages (default apps - Kitty, Neovim, Nautilus, GNOME Text Editor, Firefox) are installed with the initial installation only and not with updates, this enables a safe replacement of selected default apps, e.g. after uninstalling Firefox and switching to another browser, an update will not install it again; add mute toggle to the volume icon of the sidebar; add audio output menu to the volume module of the status bar....
NebiOS X 10.3 anniversary update is out as a stable release. The desktop has been reworked from the ground up, there's a new first-run setup and welcome screen, you can type in Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and NebiOS now runs on Apple Silicon as an experimental release. The desktop has been reworked from the ground up: control center has been redesigned, there's search in settings and it takes you straight to the setting it finds, the window now scales to your screen and can be resized; top panel - the focused app's icon and name, with a window menu next to it (on top, sticky, immersive mode, pin to the utility panel, minimize, maximize, close), it turns black when a client touches it and transparent when the desktop is focused; quick settings and OSD - a new dark look, a snapshot is animated instead of the live interface, so they stay smooth under load; launcher - opens and scrolls faster, file search uses a real index and icons load asynchronously; widgets- system monitor was rewritten (GPU, network, battery, disk, swap and temperatures, GPU usage on AMD and on NVIDIA with the proprietary driver)....
Immutable Mode with transactionally updating a system with a read-only root filesystem is a big change for this release. Users who know Leap Micro will recognize it right away, because it is the same approach, now integrated directly into Leap. Leap 16.1 in Immutable Mode replaces Leap Micro, and there will be no Leap Micro 6.3 or 7.0. Users simply boot the regular Leap 16.1 install image and select Immutable Mode in Agama. Each update with transactional-update creates a new snapshot, and a single command rolls the system back if something goes wrong. Additional software can be consumed through containers with Podman or Distrobox or through Flatpak on the desktop. Leap Micro users will still feel at home. The familiar preconfigured appliances are available in the alternative downloads section at get.opensuse.org. These include a self-install image recommended for USB installations, images for KVM/Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, Harvester and cloud environments, and a fully encrypted raw disk image.
Fedora Asahi Remix is developed in close collaboration with the Fedora Asahi SIG and the Asahi Linux project. This release incorporates all of the exciting improvements brought by Fedora Linux 45. Like previous releases, Fedora Asahi Remix 45 supports Apple M1 and M2 systems. In addition, this release includes out of the box initial support for Apple M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max. Asahi Linux upstream now officially supports these new systems. The GPU drivers enabling performant 3D acceleration on the M3 systems are not included at this point. They will be available via a Mesa update in the future. Fedora Asahi Remix offers KDE Plasma 6.8 as our flagship desktop experience. All of the new and exciting features brought by Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 45 are included. A GNOME variant is also available, featuring GNOME 51, with both desktop variants matching what Fedora Linux offers. Fedora Asahi Remix also provides a Fedora Server variant for server workloads and other types of headless deployments. Finally, we offer a Minimal image for users that wish to build their own experience from the ground up.
We have a lot of excellent content under the hood in this release. Below is only a snapshot of them. Take a spin through our change set page for individual changes, and details on each change. One of the biggest highlights in Fedora Linux 45 is integrated support for Stratis storage right inside the Anaconda installer. Stratis brings modern enterprise storage features to local storage while wrapping device-mapper, XFS, and LUKS in an easy-to-use interface. These features include thin provisioning (over-provisioning), storage pooling, dynamic filesystem sizing, snapshots, and encryption. GUI Installs (Web UI & Cockpit Storage): When performing custom partitioning during installation, you can launch the Cockpit storage module directly from Anaconda. From there, you can build Stratis pools across one or more physical drives and create dynamic / and /home filesystems on demand. Automated Installs (Kickstart): For system administrators and automated deployments, Anaconda now supports -type=stratis with autopart, alongside dedicated stratispool and stratisfs kickstart commands.
The 20261103 set of images is now published. This is an incremental refresh. It wasn't originally planned to take a year refreshing the images but here is finally a new version. There isn't anything particularly special about the images themselves but this comes with a full set of updates around the system that happened in this year. The most notable change that affects live usage is that the base image now comes with NetworkManager, replacing iwd. That should make networks easier to configure even for base systems without GUI (wireless configuration and so on) while being ready for removal of AF_ALG. This set is based on kernel 7.3, GNOME 51 and Plasma 6.8. Newly, none of them come with the X.Org server. The next set hopefully won't take a year again...
This release is mostly about stability. All of our runtime code (initrd, rc scripts, porteux-scripts and installer) went through an in-depth review, fixing many bugs and making things safer. The kernel also got some performance work: faster zstd decompression, page cache reads without locking, and a lighter file open path. These help with module loading and general disk access. New in Xfce: you can now drag files from a window in the background straight into another one, without changing focus, just like on Windows. Fixed Chrome and LibreWolf crashing; fixed cheatcodes not working when porteux.cfg was edited on Windows; fixed modules activated through a symlink not releasing their loop device; fixed modules showing twice in the Others section of PorteuX Modules application; fixed leftover processes at shutdown not being killed before unmounting; fixed virtual machines not booting from virtio storage....
The Lunduke Computer Operating System (LCOS) version 1.0, a Linux-compatible system for desktop computers, has officially shipped and is available to download, for free, for everyone. 'LCOS fixes the biggest problems plaguing operating systems today,' stated Bryan Lunduke, King of LCOS. 'Desktop computers are being attacked with garbage that none of us actually want - ID verification and data collection. Forced online accounts. Bloated, slow software. AI features shoehorned into simple text editors. Weaponized Codes of Conduct. And, of course, weird, woke politics. LCOS has none of that nonsense. Just great software.' The Lunduke Computer Operating System 1.0 is built from the best desktop software available: an LCOS-specific fork of the Linux kernel (built with no unnecessary Rust modules); high quality components, from non-woke, non-discriminatory, meritocracy-focused developers, such as: the XLibre X11 server; the Devuan project; the Brave Origin web browser; custom-built utilities focusing on speed, simplicity and a classic desktop computer style.
There has been plenty of activity across the desktop and system stacks. Alongside the desktop updates, we've continued updating our kernels, graphics stack, compiler toolchains and the supporting libraries that make up the distribution. Some of the package highlights include: COSMIC 1.11.0 with COSMIC Viewer, GNOME 51.1, KDE Plasma 6.8.2, Budgie 10.10.4,, Hyprland 0.57, Mango 0.18.4, Miriway 26.10, Noctalia 5.4.1, Linux 7.2.14 and 6.18.60 LTS, Mesa 26.2.6, Firefox 159, QEMU 11.1.3, PipeWire 1.6.11, Thunderbird 159, Wine 11.21. Alongside the above, there have been many other updates, additions and rebuilds across the repository. We have landed GNOME 51 into the aerynOS repositories, with it now acting as the base of our latest ISO live environment. We've now landed COSMIC 1.11, together with updates to the wider COSMIC stack. We're particularly pleased to see COSMIC Viewer included.