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Fab OS v1.0.7 — over-the-air update 1.0-8 Pre-release

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PatienceAIiN released this 17 Sep 13:00

v1.0.7

e9db854

Fab OS v1.0.7 — over-the-air update 1.0-8

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS based desktop by Patience AI with KDE Plasma 6 and the built-in Fab OS agent. This release carries no disc
image: it is package revision 1.0-8, delivered to every installed Fab OS system on its own through Fab Updates
(the signed update channel, suite loom). Open Fab Updates to check now; afterwards it says exactly one thing —
nothing to do, log out and back in, or restart.

What changed in 1.0-8 (over-the-air update, 17 September 2026)

The second update delivered through Fab Updates. It answers the owner's second round of reports from a real laptop: battery use, slow app opening, a microphone that did nothing, new chats stuck as queued, a login screen that still showed another desktop's name, and a start-up disk-password switch that seemed not to take.

Performance mode in quick settings: Power saver, Balanced, Performance, Gaming (tearing and variable refresh allowed, heavy effects off) and Server (no effects, screen never blanks, no sleep). Leaving Gaming or Server puts your own settings back. The always-on "Hey Fab" listener now only wakes for real speech, can switch itself off after five idle minutes on battery, and pauses while the screen is locked — a setting lets you keep it always on or off.
Microphone: pressing the mic starts recording within a second with a live level meter, and every failure now says why (no microphone, not enough memory, permission off, muted). Speech recognition needs about 210 MB free instead of 600 MB. A new switch in Fab AI Controls › Settings › Voice, "Allow Fab OS to use the microphone", must be on before anything records; existing installs that already used voice keep it on, fresh installs start with it off.
Chats run side by side: a new chat no longer waits behind another chat that is waiting for your approval, and a queued reply tells you what it is waiting for.
Research and Computer use switches beside the ask bar and inside Fab AI Controls, per chat: with Research off the assistant reads nothing from the web; with Computer use off it opens and types nothing — including through the shell.
Reminders: "remind me tomorrow at 9am to call the bank", "every weekday 6:30 pm gym", "in 45 minutes…" — understood offline, confirmed with you when a time is unclear, shown as a desktop reminder with Done, Snooze and Open, listed in a new Schedule page, and summarised in one notification when you log in. You can also mail a reminder to yourself.
Start-up disk password: the switch now shows what the computer will actually do at start-up, explains any mismatch and offers "Fix now"; a terminal command and a how-to page cover the same ground.
Names: the remaining product names of the underlying desktop are replaced where you see them, including the start-up splash for people who had installed earlier images; Fab Camera; fingerprint readers work for login and unlocking (password always still accepted); microphone volume and mic/camera in-use indicators in quick settings.
Login screen: hints such as "Place your finger on the reader" are shown as hints, not as errors.
Installer (takes effect with the next image, not this update): full-disk encryption is offered but no longer pre-selected, and every step name in the installer's side list is readable.

Known limits: the new dock, login and leave screens still need one log-out; there is no fingerprint reader or camera in the test machines, so those paths are verified structurally and on the software side only; the shell gating for the switches is a word-based rule, not a sandbox; reminders repeat daily, on weekdays, weekly or monthly only; the mail-reminder feature trusts the sender address in the mail header.

How to get it: Installed systems receive it automatically through Fab Updates.

The full changelog is at https://fabos.patienceai.in/changelog/ (feed: https://fabos.patienceai.in/updates.xml).

What is attached

Packages — the update channel's index at this revision: name, version, size and checksum of every Fab OS package.
InRelease — the signed cover of that index (Fab OS Archive key): gpg --verify InRelease after importing the key.
SHA256SUMS / SHA256SUMS.gpg — checksums of the 12 packages, signed with the same key: gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg SHA256SUMS.
fabos-archive-key.asc — the public key, also at https://fabos.patienceai.in/apt/fabos-archive-key.asc.

The packages themselves are served by the update channel (https://fabos.patienceai.in/apt/). A new installation starts
from the current image (https://fabos.patienceai.in/#status) and updates itself to 1.0-8 on its first check.

Legal

Fab OS is an independent project. Ubuntu is a trademark of Canonical Ltd.; KDE and Plasma are trademarks of KDE e.V.
Fab OS is not endorsed by either. Licences: LICENSING.md, ATTRIBUTIONS.md, THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES/, legal/.
Corresponding source for the shipped GPL packages: legal/SOURCE-OFFER.md.

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Fab OS v1.0.6 — over-the-air update 1.0-7 Pre-release

Pre-release

PatienceAIiN released this 17 Sep 05:44

v1.0.6

ef0c13c

Fab OS v1.0.6 — over-the-air update 1.0-7

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS based desktop by Patience AI with KDE Plasma 6 and the built-in Fab OS agent. This release carries no disc
image: it is package revision 1.0-7, delivered to every installed Fab OS system on its own through Fab Updates
(the signed update channel, suite loom). Open Fab Updates to check now; afterwards it says exactly one thing —
nothing to do, log out and back in, or restart.

What changed in 1.0-7 (over-the-air update, 16 September 2026)

The first update delivered entirely through Fab Updates, with nothing to reinstall. It answers the first reports from Fab OS running on a real laptop.

Dock: clicking an app that is already open brings it to the front (or minimises it) instead of opening a second copy; the running marker stays while a window is minimised or on another desktop; middle-click opens a new window on purpose.
Login screen: a new look with the clock and date, your user tile, a password field with a show/hide eye, "Not listed?", a session chooser and a power menu; a wrong password shakes the field and says so. This also replaces the red error screen some laptops showed instead of the login screen.
Start-up: the maker's logo stays on screen while Fab OS starts (the Fab OS mark where the computer shows none), with a spinner and the Fab OS wordmark; on an encrypted disk the password box is now a real box with bullets, a label and a Caps Lock warning; shutting down shows "Shutting down safely…".
Leave screen: shutting down, restarting or logging out first lists your open windows and flags the ones that look unsaved; the countdown pauses while work looks unsaved, and Cancel is the default.
Start-up setting: Fab AI Controls › Settings › General gains "Ask for the disk password when the computer starts". Turning it off explains in plain words what it means before it acts, and it can be turned back on at any time.
Updates: after an update Fab Updates tells you exactly one thing — nothing to do, log out and back in, or restart — and one desktop notification per version carries an "Open Fab Updates" button that works.

Known limits: the new dock, login screen and leave screen appear after the next log-in. The disk-password box cannot show what you type (the login screen has the eye, the start-up screen cannot). With the start-up password turned off your files stay encrypted on the drive, but the unlock key is kept on the computer itself, so anyone who starts it can use it without a password — the setting says so before it acts, and it is meant only for a computer that is itself kept secure. The new start-up screen was verified in a virtual machine; whether a laptop hands its maker's logo over depends on its firmware.

How to get it: Installed systems receive it automatically through Fab Updates.

The full changelog is at https://fabos.patienceai.in/changelog/ (feed: https://fabos.patienceai.in/updates.xml).

What is attached

Packages — the update channel's index at this revision: name, version, size and checksum of every Fab OS package.
InRelease — the signed cover of that index (Fab OS Archive key): gpg --verify InRelease after importing the key.
SHA256SUMS / SHA256SUMS.gpg — checksums of the 10 packages, signed with the same key: gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg SHA256SUMS.
fabos-archive-key.asc — the public key, also at https://fabos.patienceai.in/apt/fabos-archive-key.asc.

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Fab OS v1.0.5 Pre-release

Pre-release

PatienceAIiN released this 16 Sep 04:36

v1.0.5

4bbe387

Fab OS v1.0.5 (pre-release)

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS based desktop by Patience AI with KDE Plasma 6, the Fab OS look, and the built-in Fab OS agent
(Anthropic Claude / Google Gemini / OpenAI / DeepSeek / Ollama / the built-in offline model, with a real connection check; ask / auto / bypass permission modes; System-Wide AI switch).

Download

One file, one click: https://fabos.patienceai.in/download/fabos-1.0-desktop-amd64.iso (about 3.9 GB).
Write it to an 8 GB+ USB stick with Balena Etcher, restart, pick the USB stick.
Try it live, then double-click Install Fab OS on the desktop. Verify with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS and
gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg SHA256SUMS (Fab OS Archive key: fabos-archive-key.asc, also at https://fabos.patienceai.in/apt/fabos-archive-key.asc).

What is inside

See MANIFEST.txt (every package and version). Bundled: Firefox (Mozilla's official build), LibreOffice, VLC, KWeather, Fab Terminal,
Fab Files, Fab Editor, Fab Software, Fab Photos, Fab Documents, Fab AI Controls, Fab Updates, Fab Feedback.

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What changed in v1.0.5 (package revision 1.0-6)

Installer fixed and proven. v1.0.3 failed on a real device with "Package Manager error" (the package step asked apt to
remove a package that was never installed). This release's installer was installed end to end in a virtual machine —
plain and LUKS2 full-disk-encryption layouts — and the installed disk booted on its own to first boot before publication
(docs/QA.md, docs/INSTALL-TEST.md, ADR-0021). Partition layout: EFI 512 MiB + /boot 2 GiB + root (LUKS2 optional).
Quick settings slide-down pane redesigned: wider, animated, customisable tiles, connection speed always shown.
Dock: uniform spacing, clear running/active indicators, hover magnify. One window shadow source, rounded corners on every window.
Ask bar: "Do it" is disabled until you type; a hint suggests a cloud model for the best answers; images appear inline —
ask for a picture, logo or wallpaper and tap the result to enlarge, save, copy, open, set as wallpaper or regenerate
(with your own OpenAI or Gemini key, or a local image server).
Ollama as a provider (any model you have pulled, larger or smaller), selectable in Fab AI Controls; the built-in offline
model and Ollama now carry out multi-step tasks and can fetch web pages.
Enterprise security baseline: root actions through a polkit action instead of a NOPASSWD sudo rule, sandboxed shell
tool, policy clamps for administrators, tamper-evident audit log, kernel and AppArmor hardening, SBOM (docs/ENTERPRISE.md).
Existing installations receive 1.0-6 through Fab Updates (signed channel). Known limits are listed in docs/QA.md.

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Fab OS v1.0.3 Pre-release

Pre-release

PatienceAIiN released this 15 Sep 03:13

v1.0.3

af60bbb

Fab OS v1.0.3 (pre-release)

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS based desktop by Patience AI with KDE Plasma 6, the Fab OS look, and the built-in Fab OS agent
(Anthropic Claude / Google Gemini / OpenAI / DeepSeek / local models with a real connection check; ask / auto / bypass permission modes; System-Wide AI switch).

Download

One file, one click: https://fabos.patienceai.in/download/fabos-1.0-desktop-amd64.iso (about 4.0 GB).
Write it to an 8 GB+ USB stick with Balena Etcher, restart, pick the USB stick.
Try it live, then double-click Install Fab OS on the desktop. Verify with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS and
gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg SHA256SUMS (Fab OS Archive key: fabos-archive-key.asc, also at https://fabos.patienceai.in/apt/fabos-archive-key.asc).

What is inside

See MANIFEST.txt (every package and version). Bundled: Brave Browser (Brave's official build), LibreOffice, VLC, KWeather, Fab Terminal,
Fab Files, Fab Editor, Fab Software, Fab Photos, Fab Documents, Fab AI Controls, Fab Updates, Fab Feedback.

Legal

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Fab OS v1.0.2 Pre-release

Pre-release

PatienceAIiN released this 15 Sep 00:28

v1.0.2

ca069bb

Fab OS v1.0.2 (pre-release)

Download

One file, one click: https://fabos.patienceai.in/download/fabos-1.0-desktop-amd64.iso (about 2.3 GB).
Write it to an 8 GB+ USB stick with Balena Etcher, restart, pick the USB stick.
Try it live, then double-click Install Fab OS on the desktop. Verify with sha256sum -c fabos-1.0-desktop-amd64.iso.sha256.

What is inside

Legal

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Fab OS v1.0.1 Pre-release

Pre-release

PatienceAIiN released this 14 Sep 17:16

v1.0.1

14861ed

Fab OS v1.0.1 (pre-release)

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What is inside

See MANIFEST.txt (every package and version). Bundled: Firefox (Mozilla build), LibreOffice, VLC, KWeather, Fab Terminal,
Fab Files, Fab Editor, Fab Software, Fab Photos, Fab Documents, Fab AI Controls, Fab Updates, Fab Feedback.

Legal

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Fab OS v1.0.0 Pre-release

Pre-release

PatienceAIiN released this 14 Sep 08:36

v1.0.0

b4027f8

Fab OS v1.0.0 (pre-release)

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS based desktop by Patience AI with KDE Plasma 6, the Fab OS look, and the built-in Fab OS agent
(Claude / OpenAI / Gemini / local models; ask / auto / bypass permission modes; System-Wide AI switch).

Download

What is inside

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