Unstable Stream Update: 12th May 2026

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Changes

Hot on the heels of our 2026.05.2 ISO release, this set of unstable updates contains a few larger stack updates:

  1. We updated our GCC stack to 16.1. Reilly remarked that, so far, this has been a pretty smooth update on the libstdc++ side.
  2. We landed KDE Frameworks 6.26.0 and KDE Gear 26.04.1 with attendant rebuilds
  3. We landed COSMIC DE 1.0.12
  4. Philip was on top of the recent kernel page-cache related LPE issues (Copy Fail and Dirty Frag), and this update contains the latest patches for those.
  5. Finally, we rebuilt our CPython 3.14.4 interpreter with the performance-enhancing tail call interpreter build option.

If you’re into ricing your Window Manager setup, take a look at the new pkgset-oxide updates made by community member Christian Bendixen, along with his ferrite tool for managing and installing configurations.

Highlights

  • COSMIC DE 1.0.12
  • KDE Frameworks 6.26.0
  • KDE Gear 26.04.1
  • fish shell 4.7.0
  • linux-stable & -gaming 7.0.6 (inclusive dirty frag + copy fail fixes)
  • linux-lts 6.18.29 (inclusive dirty frag + copy fail fixes)
  • mangowm v0.12.9
  • quickshell 0.3.0

Major updates

  • llvm 22.1.5
  • lua 5.5.0
  • mesa 26.1.0

Other updates

Other updates include, but are not limited to:

  • Thunderbird 150.0.2
  • bcachefs 1.38.3
  • containerd 2.3.0
  • ffmpeg 8.1.1
  • freerdp 3.26.0
  • mangohud 0.8.3
  • poppler 26.05.0
  • qbittorrent 5.2.0
  • util-linux 2.42

Fixes

  • Add missing rundep on binary(python) in power-profiles-daemon
  • Add missing rundep on python-libs in python-pygobject package
  • Fix Firefox Sync login issue regression with NSS 3.123 caused by two-year old typo
  • Fix PAM issue where old users could get locked out of their accounts due to an ill-advised change to the allowed login shells in linux-pam-base.
  • Fix a hard-to-spot typo in nvidia-graphics-driver related to systemd system-sleep integration

New packages

  • efifs 1.12 (UEFI filesystem drivers for e.g. XBOOTLDR partition)
  • emacs 30.2 (Editor MACroS – famous emacs lisp extensible editor)
  • ferrite 0.2.0 (config tool for the oxidize theme framework)
  • gram 2.0.0 (zed editor with slop functionality removed)
  • python-meson-python 0.19.0 (python install thingy that leverages meson)
  • swaylock 1.8.4 (a screen locker in the sway/wlroots ecosystem)
  • youki 0.6.0 (youki is an implementation of the OCI runtime-spec in Rust, similar to runc)
  • yubico-authenticator 7.3.2 (full-featured desktop companion app to the YubiKey)

Full git changelog

As usual, there are many other minor updates not mentioned as the list would get too long. You can see the full changelog here:

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