Changes
It’s been another busy couple of weeks for aerynOS, with a lot of work landing across the stack.
COSMIC DE 1.9.0 has landed in the unstable stream, bringing the latest improvements from the COSMIC team. It’s particularly exciting to see that COSMIC Viewer has been added as this was created by aerynOS team member Bryan Hyland (bhh32). Whilst Bryan has now handed over COSMIC Viewer to the System76 team, we are excited and curious to see how it develops and matures with the rest of the COSMIC ecosystem.
Whilst we still consider aerynOS an alpha quality distro, we have started landing some important packages that will help make it an easier choice for more users. In particular, we have landed fwupd (for firmware updates from the command line) along with firewalld (for a firewall option). Again, I would stress that neither of these changes means that we consider aerynOS daily driveable for the average user… however we are starting to address some of the gaps that have likely been holding some users back from trying it out.
We have updated Qt to 6.12 which has also meant a wider stack rebuild of packages that rely on Qt. Our Linux kernels have been updated to 7.2.8 and 6.18.54 respectively.
Our OpenSSL stack has been updated to 4.0.3, which has also meant a fairly sizable rebuild story across the repository to ensure everything works with the major version bump from 3.6 to 4.0.
Outside of that, there have been a load of package updates as our packaging team is focused on keeping our repository updated and current with upstream releases.
Highlights
- COSMIC DE 1.9.0
- OpenSSL 4.0.3
- firefox 157.0
- firewalld 2.5.2
- fwupd 2.1.8
- linux -gaming/-stable 7.2.8
- linux -lts 6.18.54
- mesa 26.2.4
- qt 6.12.0
- thunderbird 157.0.1
Other updates
Other updates include, but are not limited to:
- bash 5.3.20
- bcachefs 1.39.6
- binutils 2.47
- containerd 2.4.1
- faugus-launcher 2.4.0
- ffmpeg 9.0.2
- flatpak 1.18.4
- fresh 0.5.2
- gamescope 3.16.29
- gdb 18.1
- git 2.56.0
- gnome-shell 51.0
- gtk-4 4.24.1
- heroic-games-launcher 2.22.3
- intel-microcode 20260925
- kmscon 10.0.4
- lact 0.10.1
- libadwaita 1.10.0
- libinput 1.32.0
- linux-firmware 20260916
- llvm 23.1.2
- mutter 51.0
- openexr 3.5.2
- pipewire 1.6.9
- podman 6.1.3
- prism-launcher 11.1.1
- protobuf 36.2
- qbittorrent 5.2.4
- qemu 11.1.2
- ruby 4.0.7
- runc 1.5.2
- sccache 0.18.0
- typescript 7.0.2
- util-linux 2.42.4
- vscode-bin 1.140.0
- vulkan 1.4.363.0
- webkitgtk 2.54.0
- wine 11.19
- wireplumber 0.5.18
- xwayland-satellite 0.8.3
- zed 1.22.0
- zulip-desktop 5.13.2
Fixes
- Steam: dropdowns fixed via xwayland-satellite update
boulder: PGO build directories are now cleaned before starting new buildsmoss: fixed duplicate\ncharacters in bootloader entries
New packages
- epiphany (gnome web browser)
- halloy 2026.8 (IRC client)
- supersonic 0.22.1 (desktop client for self-hosted music servers)
- vulkan-validation-layers and vulkan-utility-libraries 1.4.363.0
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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