Who contributed to CachyOS on July 21, 2026?

6 developers shipped this update, including Piotr Gorski, Matias, miwakasa, ptr1337, GreenStar, and github-actions.

What were the notable CachyOS updates?

🟥 Norway Mirror is down (0 in 0 ms) [skip ci] [upptime], :card_file_box: Update status summary [skip ci] [upptime], and :pencil: Update summary in README [skip ci] [upptime].

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NORWAY MIRROR DOWN, KERNEL STACK SHIPS MAINTENANCE RELEASES

By RepoJournal · Filed 07:03 UTC on July 21, 2026 · About CachyOS

6 people shipped this

github-actions @github-actions 4 cited

Piotr Gorski @sirlucjan 3 cited

miwakasa @buster-biopsys 2 cited

GreenStar @thegreatGreenstar 2 cited

Matias @Aarrayy 1 cited

ptr1337 @ptr1337 1 cited

CachyOS infrastructure is reporting a downed Norway mirror while the kernel and toolchain stacks push routine version bumps across the board.

In brief

CachyOS Linux 7.1.4-2 shipped. Kernel maintenance, not headlines. The kind of release that keeps systems from creaking.
Ananicy rules now treat all game launchers equally. Steam's special treatment is gone. Fair's fair.
scx-scheds-git and scx-tools-git got version bumps. The scheduler experiments keep rolling forward in COPR.
Faugus launcher hit 2.0.0 in cachyos-aur-derived. Major version bump on a launcher. Something changed under the hood.

The Norway Mirror went offline in the last 24 hours [1], triggering status page updates across the monitoring infrastructure [2][3][4][5]. On the kernel side, CachyOS Linux 7.1.4-2 shipped with vmalloc and page allocation optimizations [6] that land memory management improvements from upstream branches. The scheduler ecosystem followed suit with bumped versions for both scx-scheds-git and scx-tools-git across COPR [7][8][9]. Meanwhile, ananicy-rules expanded gaming emulator support by adding BSNES and bringing all launcher rules into parity with Steam [10][11][12], addressing long-standing inconsistencies in process scheduling rules. The AUR-derived package repos moved four packages to newer versions: claude-code to 2.1.215, claude-desktop to 1.22209.3, faugus-launcher to 2.0.0, and plasmazones to 3.2.5 [13][14][15][16]. Documentation also landed a cleanup: the Chromium hardware acceleration wiki page dropped deprecated GPU flags that no longer have effect on current builds [17][18].

Action items

→ Investigate Norway Mirror downtime and restore service CachyOS/statuspage [immediate]
→ Verify vmalloc optimizations in 7.1.4-2 against your workloads CachyOS/linux [plan]
→ Update ananicy-rules to pick up new emulator support CachyOS/ananicy-rules [monitor]

References

[1] 🟥 Norway Mirror is down (0 in 0 ms) [skip ci] [upptime] CachyOS/statuspage
[2] :card_file_box: Update status summary [skip ci] [upptime] CachyOS/statuspage
[3] :pencil: Update summary in README [skip ci] [upptime] CachyOS/statuspage
[4] :bento: Update graphs [skip ci] CachyOS/statuspage
[5] :card_file_box: Update status summary [skip ci] [upptime] CachyOS/statuspage
[6] CachyOS Linux 7.1.4-2 ↗ CachyOS/linux
[7] scx-scheds-git: bump version and tag CachyOS/copr-linux-cachyos
[8] scx-tools-git: bump version and tag CachyOS/copr-linux-cachyos
[9] scx-scheds-git: bump version and tag CachyOS/copr-linux-cachyos
[10] Merge pull request #582 from buster-biopsys/master CachyOS/ananicy-rules
[11] Added more emulators and made rules to all other launchers equal to Steam ↗ CachyOS/ananicy-rules
[12] Makes rules apply equally to all game launchers CachyOS/ananicy-rules
[13] claude-code: update to 2.1.215 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
[14] claude-desktop: update to 1.22209.3 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
[15] faugus-launcher: update to 2.0.0 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
[16] plasmazones: update to 3.2.5 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
[17] Remove deprecated flags from Chromium HW Acceleration Page (#397) CachyOS/wiki
[18] Remove deprecated flags from Chromium HW Acceleration Page ↗ CachyOS/wiki

Quick answers

What shipped in CachyOS on July 21, 2026?: CachyOS infrastructure is reporting a downed Norway mirror while the kernel and toolchain stacks push routine version bumps across the board. In total, 48 commits, 6 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to CachyOS on July 21, 2026?: 6 developers shipped this update, including Piotr Gorski, Matias, miwakasa, ptr1337, GreenStar, and github-actions.
What were the notable CachyOS updates?: 🟥 Norway Mirror is down (0 in 0 ms) [skip ci] [upptime], :card_file_box: Update status summary [skip ci] [upptime], and :pencil: Update summary in README [skip ci] [upptime].

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