bromigOS 0.1.3

v0.1.3 is v0.1.3-rc1, promoted to the stable channel unchanged: the same packages, so the notes are the release candidate's.

26 October 2026 · Release candidate 0.1.3-rc1, on the rc channel. When it's ready, this same build becomes the stable release.

This release candidate brings a richer Customize window, more desktop panels, dictation and game mode, and moves package updates to the public package server. It also sets up a login-unlocked keyring.

Before you update

• The update may ask for your password to move your package server to the public package server.
• If the update asks to remove the old keyring, answer y.
• Sign out and back in after the update so your login password unlocks the keyring.

New

• Panel layouts. Pick a layout in Customize, keep a different layout for each theme, or save your own. Tidy up separates overlapping panels. Panels size themselves to their content and the space available.
• Accounts. Sign in to several accounts of the same service. Public GitHub, GitLab and Twitch use bromigOS's built-in apps. See Accounts.
• Den TV. Each of the three screens can play its own channel. The guide lets you pick shows, choose a screen and add short bumpers between items. See The den TV.
• Your media. Request shows, films and albums with bromigos lab media or the bromigos media terminal library. Choose seasons, quality and audio, track unreleased titles and confirm deletion. Your media brings the workflow together.
• YouTube downloads. Add channels and playlists to Pinchflat, choose quality and keep downloaded playlists in Jellyfin or Plex. See YouTube.
• Calendar releases. Add tracked TV episodes and film releases to CALENDAR beside your own events. See Calendar releases.
• Claude Code sessions. VECTOR can read local sessions, find past replies and read each new reply aloud in follow mode. See Read a session.
• Files and pictures for VECTOR. Drag files onto VECTOR, paste a picture, or click the paperclip, and send them with your message. See Give VECTOR files and pictures.
• Lab provisioning. Review a generated repository, then apply Core services or k3s, Helm, Argo CD and Vault. See Setting up a lab for Linux boxes, existing clusters and the current limits.
• Den TV has its own app, and the media library has a Channels tab. Manage channel picks from the terminal, CLI or VECTOR. The phone can read channels and change individual picks.
• Customize › Widgets shows panels as cards with sizes, settings, install from URL, and edit mode for dragging, resizing, hiding, snapping, undoing, and keyboard-only editing. New panels include GPU, now playing, updates, media, calendar, account feeds, CI/PRs, VECTOR, and homelab status.
• The Menu key lets you hold to dictate, with a live transcript shown at the cursor. Game mode gives games their keyboard and quiets notification overlays and sound cues; turn it on from Settings or the command line.

Improved

• The zsh prompt follows your theme. Choose mehshell, Starship or a plain prompt in Shell and terminal, and bromigOS keeps your choice.
• Japanese, Chinese and Korean titles draw correctly in media, music and YouTube views, using the fonts installed with bromigOS.

Fixed

• The static wallpaper no longer hides a working live background. Panel toggling restores the visible set, LAB uses the room in its frame, and empty ALERTS stays compact.
• Colour switches refresh live backgrounds, scanners, overlays and HUD text. A pinned scanner stays visible in the new colours.
• bromigos login works on a computer with no keyring running. bromigOS now brings its own keyring, oo7, and your login password unlocks it, at the text console and the login screen. Sign-in checks the keyring before it shows a code, and says in plain words what to do when it can't keep the sign-in. The update asks for your password once, to let your login unlock the keyring. If you used gnome-keyring, answer y when pacman asks to remove it. Your saved passwords move to oo7 at your next sign-in. See Your keyring.
• YouTube channels in Den TV no longer show static or a black screen, and screens sharing a channel no longer open extra streams.

VECTOR

VECTOR 0.1.3 is a release candidate that adds file and image attachments, media library actions, safer reading of recent session history, and TV/media playback. It also fixes the transcript being hidden by the input box.

New

• Attachments let you drop files or images onto VECTOR, paste them with Ctrl+V, or use the paperclip button. They are read as data, not instructions, and secret-looking paths are refused.
• Media actions let VECTOR search your library and request films, shows, anime, or music. It shows a plan first and only starts the request after you confirm.
• Media controls let you set audio and subtitle languages, check upcoming and recent items, and delete a title, season, episode files, or album you explicitly name. VECTOR shows what will be removed and asks for confirmation.
• Session reading lets VECTOR look at recent coding-session transcripts, jobs, memory, and logs with secrets removed. It can follow a session and read the latest reply aloud.
• TV playback lets you ask VECTOR to play a specific media item and use the TV remote.

Fixed

• The transcript now ends above the input box, so it is not covered when the box grows.

Known issues

None known.

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• Update: bromigos update on the stable channel.
• On your computer: bromigos whats-new shows these notes, offline; the manual's What's new page has every release.
• Every change: CHANGELOG.md (VECTOR's: vector v0.1.3).
• Packages: SHA256SUMS lists every package of the stable channel at this release, bromigOS's and VECTOR's; SHA256SUMS.sig is its signature by the repository's key (gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.sig SHA256SUMS, with packaging/keys/bromigos.asc).
• ISO: bromigos-0.1.3-x86_64.iso (the desktop and installer, 5.3 GB, SHA-256 754da51746cd9166d9598ed1742bd2c0c0b41829be22e35965c9129d5387d5d9, signature). One file each, built, checked and tested by CI from this release. The Download page says how to put it on a USB stick. Check it with sha256sum -c <file>.sha256 and gpg --verify <file>.sig <file>, with packaging/keys/bromigos.asc.

bromigOS 0.1.3-rc1

26 October 2026 · Release candidate 0.1.3-rc1, on the rc channel. When it's ready, this same build becomes the stable release.

This release candidate brings a richer Customize window, more desktop panels, dictation and game mode, and moves package updates to the public package server. It also sets up a login-unlocked keyring.

Before you update

• The update may ask for your password to move your package server to the public package server.
• If the update asks to remove the old keyring, answer y.
• Sign out and back in after the update so your login password unlocks the keyring.

New

• Panel layouts. Pick a layout in Customize, keep a different layout for each theme, or save your own. Tidy up separates overlapping panels. Panels size themselves to their content and the space available.
• Accounts. Sign in to several accounts of the same service. Public GitHub, GitLab and Twitch use bromigOS's built-in apps. See Accounts.
• Den TV. Each of the three screens can play its own channel. The guide lets you pick shows, choose a screen and add short bumpers between items. See The den TV.
• Your media. Request shows, films and albums with bromigos lab media or the bromigos media terminal library. Choose seasons, quality and audio, track unreleased titles and confirm deletion. Your media brings the workflow together.
• YouTube downloads. Add channels and playlists to Pinchflat, choose quality and keep downloaded playlists in Jellyfin or Plex. See YouTube.
• Calendar releases. Add tracked TV episodes and film releases to CALENDAR beside your own events. See Calendar releases.
• Claude Code sessions. VECTOR can read local sessions, find past replies and read each new reply aloud in follow mode. See Read a session.
• Files and pictures for VECTOR. Drag files onto VECTOR, paste a picture, or click the paperclip, and send them with your message. See Give VECTOR files and pictures.
• Lab provisioning. Review a generated repository, then apply Core services or k3s, Helm, Argo CD and Vault. See Setting up a lab for Linux boxes, existing clusters and the current limits.
• Den TV has its own app, and the media library has a Channels tab. Manage channel picks from the terminal, CLI or VECTOR. The phone can read channels and change individual picks.
• Customize › Widgets shows panels as cards with sizes, settings, install from URL, and edit mode for dragging, resizing, hiding, snapping, undoing, and keyboard-only editing. New panels include GPU, now playing, updates, media, calendar, account feeds, CI/PRs, VECTOR, and homelab status.
• The Menu key lets you hold to dictate, with a live transcript shown at the cursor. Game mode gives games their keyboard and quiets notification overlays and sound cues; turn it on from Settings or the command line.

Improved

• The zsh prompt follows your theme. Choose mehshell, Starship or a plain prompt in Shell and terminal, and bromigOS keeps your choice.
• Japanese, Chinese and Korean titles draw correctly in media, music and YouTube views, using the fonts installed with bromigOS.

Fixed

• The static wallpaper no longer hides a working live background. Panel toggling restores the visible set, LAB uses the room in its frame, and empty ALERTS stays compact.
• Colour switches refresh live backgrounds, scanners, overlays and HUD text. A pinned scanner stays visible in the new colours.
• bromigos login works on a computer with no keyring running. bromigOS now brings its own keyring, oo7, and your login password unlocks it, at the text console and the login screen. Sign-in checks the keyring before it shows a code, and says in plain words what to do when it can't keep the sign-in. The update asks for your password once, to let your login unlock the keyring. If you used gnome-keyring, answer y when pacman asks to remove it. Your saved passwords move to oo7 at your next sign-in. See Your keyring.
• YouTube channels in Den TV no longer show static or a black screen, and screens sharing a channel no longer open extra streams.

VECTOR

VECTOR 0.1.3 is a release candidate that adds file and image attachments, media library actions, safer reading of recent session history, and TV/media playback. It also fixes the transcript being hidden by the input box.

New

• Attachments let you drop files or images onto VECTOR, paste them with Ctrl+V, or use the paperclip button. They are read as data, not instructions, and secret-looking paths are refused.
• Media actions let VECTOR search your library and request films, shows, anime, or music. It shows a plan first and only starts the request after you confirm.
• Media controls let you set audio and subtitle languages, check upcoming and recent items, and delete a title, season, episode files, or album you explicitly name. VECTOR shows what will be removed and asks for confirmation.
• Session reading lets VECTOR look at recent coding-session transcripts, jobs, memory, and logs with secrets removed. It can follow a session and read the latest reply aloud.
• TV playback lets you ask VECTOR to play a specific media item and use the TV remote.

Fixed

• The transcript now ends above the input box, so it is not covered when the box grows.

Known issues

None known.

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• Update: bromigos update on the rc channel (bromigos update --channel rc to follow it).
• On your computer: bromigos whats-new shows these notes, offline; the manual's What's new page has every release.
• Every change: CHANGELOG.md (VECTOR's: vector v0.1.3-rc1).
• Packages: SHA256SUMS lists every package of the rc channel at this release, bromigOS's and VECTOR's; SHA256SUMS.sig is its signature by the repository's key (gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.sig SHA256SUMS, with packaging/keys/bromigos.asc).
• ISO: the installer image is made for stable releases (docs/iso.md).

bromigos-lab 0.1.0

Standalone Arch console, adapters, catalog and provisioning. The pinned AUR source passed a clean Arch install, fake doctor and headless TUI test before publication.

bromigOS 0.1.2

v0.1.2 is v0.1.2-rc2, promoted to the stable channel unchanged: the same packages, so the notes are the release candidate's.

9 October 2026 · Release candidate 0.1.2-rc2, on the rc channel. When it's ready, this same build becomes the stable release.

This release candidate brings a new Settings window, idle and lock controls, shortcut rebinding, accessibility options, hardware and peripheral setup, a themed boot menu, homelab tools, AUR package updates, and an emergency switch for VECTOR.

Before you update

• The update may ask for your password in the terminal to set up the boot theme, paru (the AUR helper), and the boot menu names.
• Your idle and lock policy is moved to a bromigOS-managed setup; your own listeners are kept, and the idle service is restarted.
• A new background lab model check is installed. It only runs when a homelab is configured, and you can turn it off with systemctl --user disable --now bromigos-lab-models.timer.
• If your machine uses the GRUB boot menu, entries are renamed to “bromigOS Linux”; bromigos boot theme off removes the themed boot menu and the name.
• If the update changes the graphics driver or kernel, it will hold the live desktop and VECTOR back and ask you to restart.
• VECTOR no longer switches off automatically when the guard sees changes; use bromigos vector off or bromigos vector on to control him.

New

• The new Settings window opens with SUPER+, or SETUP > Settings…. It gathers most desktop settings, from idle and shortcuts to displays, network, Bluetooth, power, keyboard, notifications, default apps, startup, widgets, live layer, peripherals, extensions, VECTOR, account, about, and updates.
• Idle and lock settings are now controlled by bromigos idle and the Idle & lock page; the bar shows an idle eye, and you can stay awake for an hour or until stopped.
• Shortcuts can be rebound by pressing the new keys: open SETUP > Shortcuts… or bromigos keys, choose a command, then press the shortcut.
• Reduced motion and high contrast are available from bromigos accessibility, SETUP > Accessibility, and the menu; they change animations, borders, panels, and the live desktop.
• Hardware and peripheral setup: bromigos hw installs the right graphics and power packages; laptops get battery and power-profile controls in the bar, tap to click, and a three-finger workspace swipe. Supported keyboards can have their dial, side buttons, and lighting managed from SETUP > Peripherals.
• The boot menu can wear the bromigOS theme, and installed systems appear as “bromigOS Linux” instead of the generic name.
• A homelab console is available with bromigos lab, the Lab deck at SUPER+SHIFT+H, and Settings > Lab; it can check GPUs, models, jobs, and doctor findings.
• AUR support is built in: bromigos update can update AUR packages inside the same rollback snapshot, and bromigos aur turns it on or off.
• The release notes are available offline with bromigos whats-new, and the first update after a new release tells you to read them.

Improved

• The theme switcher shows each theme as a real desktop preview, sized to your monitor, and Settings > Theme lets you wear a theme from its preview.
• Every bromigOS window now appears in the app launcher, and the menu lists each one once with its icon.
• Settings and About open the manual installed on your machine, so help works offline.
• When you choose Super as the window key, conflicting desktop shortcuts move to Alt instead of doing two things at once.
• On machines using software rendering, the live desktop holds a still frame and says so once, instead of using a lot of CPU.
• bromigos lab moves with the arrow keys and Vim's keys: j and k through cards and rows, h and l between panes, [ and ] between tabs.

Fixed

• The live desktop no longer leaves extra copies running, and its background loads correctly at more screen sizes.
• Menu titles appear above the search box again. Alt+Esc suspends without asking for a password.
• Booting from a snapshot and running bromigos update --rollback no longer says there are no snapshots.
• Updating from an older release no longer stops while redrawing the theme.
• The Drift map finds its lore on every machine.

VECTOR

This release gives you a manual emergency switch, adds VECTOR and the hologram gallery to the app launcher, and makes the holograms follow motion settings and show worlds' colours. It also fixes startup, voice cycling, and stopping VECTOR.

New

• The emergency switch lets you turn VECTOR off and on from bromigos vector off or bromigos vector on, SUPER+CTRL+ESCAPE, the bar, or Settings. The guard now only records changes and no longer switches VECTOR off by itself.
• VECTOR can propose changes himself. He works in his own copies of the bromigOS repositories, opens pull requests and merges them when the checks pass. Changes to the code behind his limits (real money, your keys, his emergency switch) wait for you.
• Plugins can now give VECTOR tools, decks, data feeds and real-money rules of your own.
• VECTOR and the hologram gallery appear in the app launcher with their icons.
• The hologram gallery (Super+O) shows worlds' holograms shelf by shelf, each in its world's colours.
• The holograms follow the motion setting in bromigOS accessibility settings: full, reduced, or still. Reduced slows movement and removes flicker, blinking, scan bands, and glitches; still holds one frame until the picture changes.

Improved

• VECTOR's homelab creation uses the lab's current models for cutouts and 3D, and can upscale an image or a short clip.

Fixed

• VECTOR starts without an error, and changing voices now takes effect immediately, so the keyboard dial steps through every voice.
• bromigos-holo stop and bromigos-holo restart now stop VECTOR promptly.

Known issues

• The online manual may not match your installed channel; the manual opened from Settings matches your packages.

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• Update: bromigos update on the stable channel.
• On your computer: bromigos whats-new shows these notes, offline; the manual's What's new page has every release.
• Every change: CHANGELOG.md (VECTOR's: vector v0.1.2).
• Packages: SHA256SUMS lists every package of the stable channel at this release, bromigOS's and VECTOR's; SHA256SUMS.sig is its signature by the repository's key (gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.sig SHA256SUMS, with packaging/keys/bromigos.asc).
• ISO: bromigos-0.1.2-x86_64.iso (the desktop and installer, 4.3 GB, SHA-256 a2fd32c44b3a41aa3a7786e30a7aea6bfcc7054bdc5d10185ea19d160616a7b6, signature). Built and tested by hand on 2026-10-10 (docs/iso.md, "Test runs"); on 2026-10-30 it moved from this Release, where it was in three parts, to the bucket as one file. The Download page says how to put it on a USB stick. Check it with sha256sum -c <file>.sha256 and gpg --verify <file>.sig <file>, with packaging/keys/bromigos.asc.