Unstable Stream Update: 26th-28th February 2026

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Changes

This set of unstable updates was dominated by @ReillyBrogan landing KDE Plasma 6.6, in addition to a fair few other stack updates. He got 6.6.0 landed for testing just after it was released by upstream, but we decided to wait for 6.6.1 before sync’ing it to the unstable stream.

Moss and boulder saw a number of refactors and improvements (some of which are still in review), thanks to an old friend of the project, Fabio, rejoining our ranks after a hiatus and digging in straight away. This has resulted in some nice updates across the project, and we’re happy to see Fabio back in the thick of things.

Finally, our growing team of Trusted Contributors banded together and got a fair few new packages ready to be added to our repository. The astute reader will no doubt notice that many of these new packages relate to building Wayland compositor-based Desktop Experiences.

As we are planning to do some fairly large stack rebuilds during March, we are putting a soft-freeze in effect re. adding new packages. The focus for March should instead be primarily on fixing and updating existing recipes.

As always, more people contributed than have been highlighted above. We are grateful for every single contribution!

Highlights

  • COSMIC DE 1.0.8
  • GNOME 49.3/4 application updates
  • KDE Frameworks 6.2.3
  • KDE Plasma 6.6.1
  • dankmaterialshell 1.4.3
  • ewwii 0.4.0
  • fresh 0.2.4
  • firefox 148
  • fish 4.5
  • golang 1.26
  • linux 6.8.15 (including Mediatek 7902 Wifi/BT drivers and HDMI enhancements for gaming)
  • linux-firmware 20260221 (including Mediatek 7902 Wifi/BT support)
  • mangowc 0.12.4
  • mesa 26.0.1
  • networkmanager 1.56.0
  • pipewire 1.6.0
  • prism-launcher 1.0.5
  • thunderbird 148.0
  • vscode-bin 1.109.4
  • vscodium 1.109.31074
  • waybar 0.15.0
  • wine 11.3

Other updates

Other updates include, but are not limited to:

  • binutils 2.46.0
  • bottom 0.12.3
  • docker 29.2
  • fastfetch 2.59.0
  • freerdp 3.23.0
  • gawk 5.4.0
  • intel-media-driver 25.4.6
  • iwd 3.11
  • libinput 1.31.0
  • opengamepadui 0.44.2 + godot 4.5.1 (OGUI uses Godot)
  • openvpn 2.7.0
  • weston 15.0.0

Fixes

  • boulder now correctly places configure options next to %configure, and runs autogen.sh without arguments in %autogen* macros.
  • dracut was fixed so initird and install scripts work as we intended them to. This enables us to properly use multiple pre-generated initramfs images in the intended sequence.
  • ffmpeg should now support nvenc/nvdec hardware acceleration
  • A fixup-recipe-commit function was added to bash and zsh helpers for packagers (needs to be added for fish helpers as well – contributions welcome!).
  • moss initrd service and install scripts should now work properly with newer (110 and probably 107) Dracut versions.

New packages

  • awww 0.11.2 (animated wallpaper daemon for wayland compositors)
  • eiipm 0.4.0 (package manager for the ewwii widget system, built w/ Rust)
  • inotify-tools 4.25.9.0 (for inspecting inotify events)
  • intel-compute-runtime 26.05.37020.3 (working stack for intel iGPUs and dGPUs)
  • ironbar 0.18.0 (gtk4 status bar for Wayland compositors. Built w/ Rust)
  • lolcat 1.5 (IDK man, but the packaging crew said they needed this)
  • lucien 0.1.0-dev (application launcher in the vein of fuzzel, dmenu, rofi and wofi. Built w/ Rust)
  • playerctl 2.4.1 (command-line utility for controlling MPRIS-compatible sources, such as music players and the like)
  • qt6ct 0.11 (tool for configuring Qt6 theming outside of KDE Plasma)
  • riftbar 0.1.4 (waybar-like status bar using GTK4 for GUI and the gtk4-layer-shell wayland protocol for interop. Built w/ Rust)
  • roswell 24.10.115 (Install and manage Common LISP implementations and tools for LISP development environments)
  • wev 1.1.0 (tool for debugging events on a Wayland window, analagous to the X11 tool xev)
  • yelp 49.0 (GNOME help viewer)

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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