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Plymouth hang workaround, 7.3-rc4-2 adds virtual swap
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CachyOS took a workaround for the long-standing Plymouth boot hang, added the xswapv5 virtual swap branch to the 7.3-rc4 kernel packages, and pushed 7.2.8 out across the Linux and COPR channels.
Add custom plymouth package CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
The new custom plymouth package carries a workaround for the boot hang that has dogged Plymouth, with the author noting it "can cause flickering at end of splash animation, but I believe it's better than system hang on boot." It closes a set of long-open reports against the kernel and distribution repos; no proper upstream fix yet.
CachyOS Linux 7.3-rc4-2 CachyOS/linux
Based on Linux 7.3-rc4 and following cachyos-7.3-rc4-1, this build adds the 7.3/xswapv5 branch, bringing virtual swap device infrastructure, zswap and zero-filled page backends, and the swap IO path rework that precedes them. Kernel and MM code touching swap is what changes here.
7.2.8-1 CachyOS/linux-cachyos
The 7.2.8-1 bump lands the stable kernel in linux-cachyos, with the matching COPR build arriving separately. If you track stable rather than the rc series, this is the release to rebuild against.
Linux 7.2.8 CachyOS/copr-linux-cachyos
The Fedora-side COPR repo picked up the same 7.2.8 kernel, keeping the alternative packaging channel in step with the main tree. Users pulling CachyOS kernels from COPR should see the new version available.
i18n: Add Arabic translation (#269) CachyOS/chwd
chwd's interface gained Arabic, contributed as an i18n commit by Mohammad Abu-Khader, alongside Hungarian from a separate PR. Both are the first non-English strings for the hardware detection tool.
Action items
- → Test boot on affected hardware before rolling the custom plymouth package out fleet-wide; the fix is a workaround wit... CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS [plan]
