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CachyOS kernel moves to 7.3-rc4 with xswap swap fixes
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The CachyOS kernel rebased to Linux 7.3-rc4 and landed four xswap memory-management patches, while the build tooling dropped a redundant chroot_build flag and the AUR-derived mirror picked up five upstream version bumps.
CachyOS Linux 7.3-rc4-1 CachyOS/linux
Rebased from 7.3-rc3 to 7.3-rc4, with the 7.3/cachy branch picking up an ADIOS 3.3.0 iosched fixup and the 7.3/xswap branch adding three patches that cap xswap growth at nr_clusters, shrink it back to the ceiling on drops, and refactor swapoff to add xswap_destroy. If you build the CachyOS kernel yourself, this replaces cachyos-7.3-rc3-2 as the current RC tag.
linux-cachyos-rc: 7.3-rc4-1 CachyOS/linux-cachyos
The linux-cachyos-rc package tracks the same 7.3-rc4-1 source, so both the release tag and the PKGBUILD side of the RC kernel now point at the identical snapshot.
๐ง chroot_build: remove redundant flag CachyOS/pkg-manage-util
chroot_build no longer passes a redundant flag, trimming one argument from the package-management utility's chroot build path. Small on its own, but it sits in the tooling used to produce CachyOS packages.
clipman: update to 1.7.0 CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
clipman went from 1.6.5 to 1.7.0, the only minor-version jump among the day's AUR-derived bumps, alongside localsend moving to 1.18.2.
lib32-opencl-icd-loader: update to 2026.05.29 CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
The remaining AUR-derived updates were routine version bumps: lib32-opencl-icd-loader to 2026.05.29, faudio to 26.09, and fluxer-canary to 2026.919.185602, each regenerated by pkgctl with no risk flags in the static diff scan. The statuspage bots also logged China Mirror (USTC) and China Mirror (Nanjing) both answering 200, at 2162 ms and 2060 ms respectively.
