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nvidia 580xx confines egl-wayland2 to KWin, boot stack bumps dkms, limine, devtools

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The day's real work is in CachyOS-PKGBUILDS: one regression-scoped nvidia fix and a coordinated bump of the toolchain packages CachyOS kernels and bootloaders are built against, while the AUR-derived repo and the status page churn on automation.

nvidia-580xx-utils: Limit egl-wayland2 usage to KWin only CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS

by ventureoo

The pull request message says recent changes caused regressions in GNOME and webkit, so nvidia-580xx-utils now enables egl-wayland2 only for KWin instead of globally. If you run 580xx on GNOME or a WebKit browser, this is the fix to pick up.

bump dkms devtools limine CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS

by witchlliee

witchlliee's change bumps dkms, devtools, and limine together, which lands alongside the individual commits for limine v12.9.2, devtools v1.5.2, and dkms v3.4.4. Anyone building or signing modules against a CachyOS kernel should treat these as one update, not three.

dkms: Update to v3.4.4 CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS

by witchlliee

dkms moves to v3.4.4 in CachyOS-PKGBUILDS, the module rebuild tooling used for out-of-tree kernel drivers. Pair it with the limine v12.9.2 and devtools v1.5.2 commits in the same batch.

scx-scheds-git: bump version and tag CachyOS/copr-linux-cachyos

by Piotr Gorski

Piotr Gorski bumped scx-scheds-git's version and tag in the copr-linux-cachyos repo, picking up the current upstream scheduler sources. No config change is required for existing scx users.

sunshine: update to 2026.1004.122811 CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived

by github-actions

The automated AUR-derived run pushed sunshine to 2026.1004.122811, with sysd-manager at 2.23.0, iloader at 2.3.5, and fluxer at 2026.1004.13532 following the same pkgctl template. The status page meanwhile logged both Chinese mirrors up, USTC answering in 1319 ms and Nanjing in 1639 ms.

Quick answers

What shipped in CachyOS on October 6, 2026?
The day's real work is in CachyOS-PKGBUILDS: one regression-scoped nvidia fix and a coordinated bump of the toolchain packages CachyOS kernels and bootloaders are built against, while the AUR-derived repo and the status page churn on automation. In total, 35 commits and 6 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to CachyOS on October 6, 2026?
4 developers shipped this update, including github-actions, witchlliee, ventureoo, and Piotr Gorski.
What were the notable CachyOS updates?
nvidia-580xx-utils: Limit egl-wayland2 usage to KWin only, bump dkms devtools limine, and dkms: Update to v3.4.4.