Unstable Stream Updates: 17 of August 2025

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Changes

This stream update saw a wide variety of package updates, and the addition of a couple of new Trusted Maintainers, @Jaredy899 and @K1ngfish3r, who some of you may be familiar with already from their friendly tips and pointers in PR Reviews.

Their new role enables them to approve trivial recipe updates and merge them into the tree, which will hopefully free up aerynOS staff to focus on more complicated stack upgrades, distro engineering and development work to push forward the capabilities of the aerynOS tooling and infrastructure.

New PR templates + Package Request requirements for PRs

@NomadicCore and our new Trusted Maintainers spent a fair bit of time writing up and tweaking our new PR templates, that are intended to make it clearer what we expect of our package recipe contributors.

In addition, we put in place a policy that means that no PRs for new packages will be accepted before a Package Request issue has been filled out and approved on its merits relative to the phase of development aerynOS is in.

Kernels 7.1.6/7/8

Kernel version 7.1.6 and 7.1.7 were affected by an amdgpu bug related to brightness that was fixed in 7.1.8.

In addition, linux firmware, intel and amd microcode packages were updated to solve various issue.

Finally, support for the broadcom-sta wireless driver was added, and a workaround was devised for how we handle it and extra kernel modules like it.

Kmscon userspace virtual terminal re-enabled

We re-enabled kmscon by default for virtual terminals that users can switch to with CTRL+ALT+F1-F6.

Unlike the kernel's built-in virtual terminal, the kmscon userspace virtual terminal supports full unicode glyphs via freetype and runs on top of the DRM kernel modesetting driver.

• The first VT is reserved for graphical greeters.
• When switching to a different VT, the surrounding machinery means that kmscon takes a second or two to initialize the display
• If you are not using a greeter, you can use e.g. kmscon-launch-gui sway to start the Sway wayland compositor etc.

Repology recipe fixes

We were contacted by a repology maintainer and made aware that a few of our recipes were being parsed incorrectly by repology. After the reported niggles were fixed, we are happy to report that aerynOS is now once again listed with repology.

We want to thank @AMDmi3 for their PRs and bug reports in this regard.

Moss fixes

As part of our continuing development process, moss saw a few small corner case fixes related to our new native reflink strategy. In addition, we also fixed a small bug that caused file descriptors to leak in the native hardlink strategy.

Highlights

• GNOME 50.4
• KDE Plasma 6.7.4
• KDE Frameworks 6.29
• firefox 153.0.4
• firefox-langpacks 153.0.4
• heroic-games-launcher 2.22.1
• intel-microcode 20260811
• linux-firmware 20260810
• linux-gaming/-stable 7.1.8
• linux-lts 6.18.44
• noctalia 5.0.0-beta.8
• nvidia-graphics-driver 610.57.04
• nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules 610.57.04
• thunderbird 153.0.3
• thunderbird-langpacks 153.0.3

Stack Updates

• boost 1.9.2
• ffmpeg 9.0.1 + vapoursynth R79
• go 1.26.6
• gstreamer 1.28.6
• lua 5.5.1
• mesa 26.1.7
• nodejs 24.19.0 + pnpm 11.19.0
• perl 5.44.0
• python 3.14.7
• uutils-coreutils 0.10.0
• wine 11.15

Updates

• adwaita-fonts 51.0
• asusd 6.3.11
• aurorae 6.7.4
• bazaar 0.9.2
• bcachefs-module 1.39.0
• bcachefs-tools 1.39.0
• bluedevil 6.7.4
• bottom 0.14.8
• cardwire 0.11.1
• croc 11.1.0
• dankcalendar 0.3.1
• diffoscope 328
• discord 1.0.153
• docker 29.7.2
• docker-buildx 0.36.1
• docker-compose 5.4.0
• dracut 112
• dua-cli 2.42.0
• erofs-utils 1.9.3
• fastfetch 2.67.1
• faugus-launcher 2.1.0
• flatpak 1.18.1
• font-cantarell 0.311
• fzf 0.74.3
• github-cli 2.97.0
• htop 3.5.3
• hugo 0.165.0
• inxi 3.3.41-1
• jujutsu 0.44.0
• lazygit 0.64.1
• moby 29.7.2
• mpg123 1.33.7
• mullvad 2026.04
• nano 9.2
• nerd-fonts 3.5.0
• nushell 0.115.0
• openssh 10.5p1
• openvpn 2.7.6
• plezy 2.13.0
• podman 6.1.0
• rclone 1.75.0
• rsync 3.5.0
• skopeo 1.24.0
• strawberry 1.2.27
• swaylock 1.8.6
• syncthing 2.1.3
• syncthingtray 2.1.4
• tailscale 1.102.2
• tmux 3.7c
• tree-sitter 0.26.12
• vscode-bin 1.133.0
• waydroid 1.6.3
• wayvr 26.8.0
• xr-hardware 1.1.2
• yazi 26.8.15
• zed 1.15.0
• zola 0.23.3

Fixes

• accountsservice: Fix stateless autologin
• broadcom-sta-module: Fix metadata
• build-essential: Add a few useful dependencies
• dracut: Add systemd 261 fix
• flatpak: Add polkit as rundep
• fuzzel: fix broken svgs by changing backend to librsvg
• iwd: Add security fixes
• pkgset-aeryn: Add networkmanager-openvpn
• pkgset-aeryn-gnome: Add networkmanager-openvpn-gnome

Fix up a few recipes that couldn't be parsed by repology. Thank you to @AMDmi3 for the reports.

Additions

• broadcom-sta-module 6.30.223.271 (Broadcom WiFi driver)
• cage 0.3.1 (Wayland kiosk that runs a single, maximized application.)
• forgejo-cli 0.6.0 (Cli application for e.g. Codeberg)
• gitte 0.9.1 (A Rust libadwaita Git client for GNOME desktop, inspired by Git Tower and magit)
• gnome-online-accounts-gtk 3.50.10 (Enable GOA integration outside of GNOME)
• lutris 0.5.22+git.0747076 (Popular game launcher)
• pdfio 1.6.4 (Simple C library for reading and writing PDF files)
• perl-class-inspector 1.36 (Perl introspection library)
• perl-file-sharedir 1.118 (Perl utility library)
• perl-file-sharedir-install 0.14 (Perl utility library)
• wl-mirror 0.18.5 (A simple Wayland output mirror client)
• wlr-protocols 20260309+git.bf4fc79 (Wayland protocols designed for use in wlroots (and other compositors))
• xapp-symbolic-icons 1.1.0 ( A set of symbolic icons for Gtk applications and projects)

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:

aerynOS/recipes@51406ed...e764249

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