One of the improvements in this milestone is the integration of native Flatpak support directly into the Zenwalk desktop. Flatpak is installed and configured out of the box, with Flathub available as an application source. Installing modern desktop applications no longer requires searching for packages, dealing with dependencies or opening a terminal. Simply open the graphical application store, find the application you want, click Install - and you're done. This provides Zenwalk users with access to a huge ecosystem of up-to-date desktop applications while keeping the traditional Slackware package system available for the core operating system. In other words: Zenwalk packages for the system, Flatpak for applications - and both are ready to use from day one. This milestone moves to the Linux 7.1.7 kernel, providing a modern kernel base together with the BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) CPU scheduler patch. BORE is designed with interactive desktop workloads in mind. It aims to improve responsiveness by favoring short, interactive bursts of CPU activity, helping desktop tasks remain responsive even when the system is under heavier CPU load. For a desktop-oriented distribution such as Zenwalk, this makes a particularly good match: applications, window management, multimedia workloads and background processes can coexist while maintaining a responsive user interface. The result is a kernel configuration aimed not simply at benchmark numbers, but at the thing you actually feel when using a desktop: a system that stays responsive.