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Plasma crash fix for NVIDIA 580xx, kernel 7.2.9 lands everywhere

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Peter Jung simiscoool-afk ptremb ventureoo github-actions Aarrayy Mikael Dúi Bolinder
7 people shipped this
Peter Jung @ptr1337 2 cited simiscoool-afk @simiscoool-afk 1 cited ptremb @ptremb 1 cited ventureoo @ventureoo 1 cited github-actions @github-actions Aarrayy @Aarrayy Mikael Dúi Bolinder @mikaeldui

The day's real work is a fix for the reproducible plasmashell crash on NVIDIA R580 and the rollout of CachyOS Linux 7.2.9-2, with the rest of the wire being automated package bumps and uptime noise.

Fix plasmashell crash on NVIDIA 580xx by preferring egl-wayland2 CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS

by ptremb

The fix selected in PKGBUILDS prefers the egl-wayland2 external platform ICD over the legacy egl-wayland path, which leaks a file descriptor and brings plasmashell down on NVIDIA R580 under KDE Plasma Wayland with explicit sync enabled. The PR cites NVIDIA/egl-wayland#196 and KDE bug 497424 as background, and the same change was merged as a commit that closes CachyOS/distribution#593.

CachyOS Linux 7.2.9-2 CachyOS/linux

by ptr1337

Based on Linux 7.2.9 and replacing cachyos-7.2.9-1, the release adds one patch to the 7.2/cachy branch: PCI: Add Intel remapped NVMe device support. The same version landed across the packaging trees: linux-cachyos 7.2.9-1 and 6.18.55-1, linux-cachyos-hardened 7.2.9-1, and the COPR build at 7.2.9-2, which also drops the EL9 patch kernel-el9-ar-thin.patch.

Replace nvidia-module-loader with cachyos-drm-awaiter CachyOS/CachyOS-Live-ISO

by ventureoo

The live ISO drops nvidia-module-loader in favor of cachyos-drm-awaiter, a swap that depends on an unmerged PKGBUILDS change and so should not be expected in a built image until that lands.

iw-set-regdomain: Add backwards compatible zones (#278) CachyOS/CachyOS-Settings

by Peter Jung

iw-set-regdomain gains backwards compatible zones, keeping the wireless regulatory domain script working for setups written against the older zone names.

Add cardwire CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived

by simiscoool-afk

Quiet tail: cardwire was added to cachyos-aur-derived against llvm 23 with a developer's note that it "built and tested locally just fine on my desktop", and the automated bumps moved github-copilot-app-bin to 1.1.26, github-copilot-cli to 1.0.91, and helium-browser-bin to 0.18.3.1.

$ 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 October 4, 2026?
The day's real work is a fix for the reproducible plasmashell crash on NVIDIA R580 and the rollout of CachyOS Linux 7.2.9-2, with the rest of the wire being automated package bumps and uptime noise. In total, 41 commits, 8 pull requests, and 3 releases landed.
Who contributed to CachyOS on October 4, 2026?
7 developers shipped this update, including simiscoool-afk, github-actions, ptremb, ventureoo, Peter Jung, Aarrayy, and Mikael Dúi Bolinder.
What were the notable CachyOS updates?
Fix plasmashell crash on NVIDIA 580xx by preferring egl-wayland2, CachyOS Linux 7.2.9-2, and Replace nvidia-module-loader with cachyos-drm-awaiter.
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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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