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CACHYOS PACKAGES ROLL FORWARD, NANJING MIRROR GOES DARK

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Python 3.11.16 and asusctl 6.4.0 ship across the stack as the China Nanjing mirror drops offline, signaling infrastructure pressure.

CachyOS shipped five critical package updates across the AUR-derived and core build repos in the last 24 hours, led by Python 3.11.16 [1] moving up two minor versions and asusctl 6.4.0 [2] marking a major bump for ASUS hardware control. Flanking these are corefreq 2.1.4 [4], fluxer-canary 2026.816.172808 [3], and helium-browser-bin 0.15.5.1 [5], all passing automated verification without flagged risk. On the hardening front, linux-cachyos-rc added a ZFS build fix [6] while linux-cachyos-hardened shipped 7.1.8-1 [7], both from Peter Jung. The kernel-patches repo also merged a hardened patchset for 7.1 [8]. Infrastructure turned red overnight: the China Mirror (Nanjing) is down with zero response [9], a hard stop that may cascade through regional deployments. Desktop environment support got attention too, with cachyos-jay-noctalia bumped to v1.2.0 [10] and dkms refreshed to 3.4.3 [11] to keep kernel module builds current.

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References

  1. [1] python311: update to 3.11.16 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
  2. [2] asusctl: update to 6.4.0 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
  3. [3] fluxer-canary: update to 2026.816.172808 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
  4. [4] corefreq: update to 2.1.4 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
  5. [5] helium-browser-bin: update to 0.15.5.1 ↗ CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
  6. [6] linux-cachyos-rc: Add fix for ZFS build ↗ CachyOS/linux-cachyos
  7. [7] linux-cachyos-hardened: 7.1.8-1 ↗ CachyOS/linux-cachyos
  8. [8] 7.1: Add hardened patchset ↗ CachyOS/kernel-patches
  9. [9] 🟥 China Mirror (Nanjing) is down (0 in 0 ms) [skip ci] [upptime] CachyOS/statuspage ↗
  10. [10] cachyos-jay-noctalia: Update to v1.2.0 (#1717) ↗ CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
  11. [11] dkms: update to v3.4.3 (#1729) ↗ CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS

$ 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 17, 2026?
Python 3.11.16 and asusctl 6.4.0 ship across the stack as the China Nanjing mirror drops offline, signaling infrastructure pressure. In total, 55 commits and 9 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to CachyOS on August 17, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including github-actions, Peter Jung, and witchlliee.
What were the notable CachyOS updates?
python311: update to 3.11.16, asusctl: update to 6.4.0, and fluxer-canary: update to 2026.816.172808.
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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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