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CACHYOS LINUX 7.1.8 SHIPS WITH VMALLOC OPTIMIZATIONS; NOCTALIA CONFIG UPDATED FOR BETA 8

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witchlliee Jinra SoongVilda Robin Candau uzair777-dev Peter Jung cantosun99
11 people shipped this
witchlliee @witchlliee 3 cited Jinra @Jinra 3 cited SoongVilda @SoongVilda 2 cited Robin Candau @Antiz96 1 cited uzair777-dev @uzair777-dev 1 cited Peter Jung @ptr1337 1 cited cantosun99 @cantosun99 Aarrayy @Aarrayy renovate @renovate Piotr Gorski @sirlucjan Vladislav Nepogodin @vnepogodin

CachyOS Linux 7.1.8 landed overnight with upstream rebase and performance tuning across memory allocation, while Noctalia configuration hardened for beta 8 stability with direct_scanout gaming support.

The kernel update [1] rebases to upstream 7.1.8 from 7.1.7 and ships optimized vmalloc-free branches cutting page allocation overhead. Hyprland's Noctalia config [2] hit v1.2.5 with beta 8 fixes and added direct_scanout for games [3], plus a new satty screenshot tool default config [4]. On the AUR side, witchlliee pushed niri-spicy-git with HDR and timing protocol support [5], along with kwin-effect-rounded-corners v0.9.0 and niri-focused-booster v0.3.0 across the derived repo [6][7]. Wiki translations accelerated as SoongVilda synchronized all outdated Japanese pages with current English documentation [8], though a revert followed on translation workflow [9]. Cachy-update released v4.1.5 with man page cleanup [10], and copr-linux-cachyos bumped to kernel 7.1.7 [11] ahead of the main tree. Mirror status holding steady across China nodes.

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References

  1. [1] CachyOS Linux 7.1.8-1 ↗ CachyOS/linux
  2. [2] v1.2.5 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-hypr-noctalia
  3. [3] Fixing Noctalia config for beta 8 + QoL updates ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-hypr-noctalia
  4. [4] adding default satty config file ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-hypr-noctalia
  5. [5] niri-spicy-git: add at v26.04.r97.geb799fa ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
  6. [6] kwin-effect-rounded-corners: add at v0.9.0 (#281) ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
  7. [7] niri-focused-booster: Add at v0.3.0 (#309) ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
  8. [8] Update Japanese wiki translation ↗ CachyOS/wiki
  9. [9] Revert "Update Japanese wiki translation" ↗ CachyOS/wiki
  10. [10] style(man): Remove useless line breaks (#749) ↗ CachyOS/cachy-update
  11. [11] Kernel 7.1.7 (#104) ↗ CachyOS/copr-linux-cachyos

$ ls cachyos/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review CachyOS 7.3.3-1 ships with EAC signing key the month in review CachyOS kernel lands on 7.3.1, T2 fixes reverted
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Quick answers

What shipped in CachyOS on August 11, 2026?
CachyOS Linux 7.1.8 landed overnight with upstream rebase and performance tuning across memory allocation, while Noctalia configuration hardened for beta 8 stability with direct_scanout gaming support. In total, 55 commits, 26 pull requests, and 2 releases landed.
Who contributed to CachyOS on August 11, 2026?
11 developers shipped this update, including witchlliee, Jinra, SoongVilda, cantosun99, Aarrayy, Robin Candau, renovate, and uzair777-dev, and 3 more.
What were the notable CachyOS updates?
CachyOS Linux 7.1.8-1, v1.2.5, and Fixing Noctalia config for beta 8 + QoL updates.
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$ log @CachyOS --recent

CachyOS builds an Easy Anti-Cheat stack, kernel variant included 85 shipped CachyOS 7.3.3-1 ships, EAC signing key lands 61 shipped cachyos-drm-awaiter gets a longer timeout, a new marker, and a pkgver bump 73 shipped CachyOS tops 7.4-rc1 with a generic WSL image 59 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Agent Security Quiet day in agent security as guard coverage reaches four clients Alignment & Post-training verl defaults Ascend RL mode, open-instruct unblocks SFT packing

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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