Unstable Stream Update: 17th+18th of January, 2026

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Changes

This week, we waited a little longer to do our Unstable Stream Update because COSMIC DE 1.0.2 and KDE Plasma 6.5.5 came out alongside Linux 6.18.5, which were all duly landed.

In addition, @ReillyBrogan also did a bunch of upgrades (with some feature enablement on top) all across our recipes repository. So now gvfs and vlc will let you use NFS shares as well.

For JS developers, NodeJS 24 was landed and is now the default in the repository.

For gamers, installing Steam now causes the ntsync module to get loaded automatically. And speaking of gamers, we also had a new contributor join who has access to NVIDIA cards and may potentially be able to help us set those up correctly for use with dGPUs.

Meanwhile, @joebonrichie added support for debuginfod, which enables automagical downloading of relevant dbginfo files when firing up gdb to investigate issues. This yields a much more streamlined Developer Experience than before, where each relevant dbginfo file needed to be installed manually.

On the documentation side, @NomadicCore landed new guidance for packagers in relation to how we believe high quality Pull Requests should look. Read more here.

Highlights

• COSMIC DE 1.0.2
• GNOME 49.3 application updates
• KDE Plasma 6.5.5 + KDE Gear v25.12.1
• discord: 0.0.120
• fish: 4.3.3
• lazygit 0.58.1
• linux-desktop 6.18.5
• linux-firmware v20260110
• linux-handheld 6.18.5
• prism-launcher 10.0
• qemu 10.2.0
• ruby 4.0.1
• syncthing 2.0.13
• vscode 1.108.0
• vscodium 1.108.10359
• wine 11.0
• zed: 0.218.7

Major Upgrades

• KDE Frameworks v6.22
• libwacom 2.17.0 (for use with drawing tablets)
• pip 25.3 + rebuilds

New Packages

• brush 0.3.0-dev (bash shell written in Rust)
• foot terminal 1.25.0
• ghostty terminal 1.3.0-dev
• gtk4-layer-shell 1.3.0
• lact 0.8.3 (linux gpu control tool)
• pandoc 3.8.3 (documentation generation tool)
• pavucontrol 6.2 (sound server control GUI)
• signal-desktop 7.85.0
• zig 0.15.2

Full git changelog

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

aerynOS/recipes@29ee237...20c29b2

How to Contribute

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Thank you!

Thank you to all our supporters and contributors. You are making a difference! ❤️