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CachyOS tops 7.4-rc1 with a generic WSL image
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The kernel work landed in three repos at once: linux-cachyos bumped to 7.4rc1-1, kernel-patches carried the 7.4 patch set plus an NVIDIA fix, and the CachyOS build shipped as 7.4-rc1-1.
CachyOS Linux 7.4-rc1-1 CachyOS/linux
CachyOS Linux 7.4-rc1-1 is based on Linux 7.4-rc1 and pulls the 7.4/vesa-dsc-bpp branch, whose five patches touch drm/edid around VESA vendor-specific block parsing, DSC DPP passthru for mode VII timings, and restricting MSO to non-eDP displays. Anything testing VESA DSC behavior on CachyOS should retest against this build.
CachyOS WSL 2026.11.05.5 CachyOS/cachyos-wsl
The monthly automated WSL build shipped as 2026.11.05.5, sitting on top of the change that made the image generic and deferred repository selection to first setup.
nvidia-620.70.06 CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
The nvidia PKGBUILD moves to 620.70.06, and the same window added an NVIDIA fix to the 7.4 patch set in kernel-patches, which is the pairing that matters if you run the proprietary driver on the new rc.
helium-browser-bin: update to 0.21.1.1 CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
helium-browser-bin jumped two minor lines, 0.20.3.1 to 0.21.1.1, with checksums and .SRCINFO regenerated and no risk flags from the static diff scan.
proton-mail-bin: update to 1.16.0 CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
The rest of the AUR mirror was routine: floorp-bin 12.21.1, proton-mail-bin 1.16.0, fluxer 2026.1105.25408 and intel-one-mono-fonts 1.5.0, all automated bumps with no flagged diffs, and the uptime bot logged every mirror it checks as up.
