CachyOS kernel lands on 7.3.1, T2 fixes reverted

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The 7.3 line moved through five point releases in nine days, adding a 7.3/sched branch and AMD IOMMU work.

1505 commits 391 PRs merged 14 releases 31 briefings covered

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CachyOS Linux 7.3.1-1 CachyOS/linux

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The month's endgame: 7.3.0-4 became 7.3.1-1 with a new 7.3/sched branch and updates to 7.3/t2. The Apple T2 ACPI patches added in 7.3.0-2 were dropped again in this release, so check where T2 hardware stands before relying on them.

CachyOS Linux 7.3.0-3 CachyOS/linux

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The 7.3/amd-iommu branch backed out "iommu/amd: Force identity mode for selected GPUs only". If you pinned to 7.3.0-2 for AMD GPU passthrough or IOMMU behavior, 7.3.0-3 changed it.

CachyOS Linux 7.3.0-2 CachyOS/linux

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First 7.3.0 build carried the 7.3/t2 branch with early CPU offlining and battery/adapter disabling for x86 Apple machines, plus amdgpu changes. It is the release that moved the tree from rc to final.

Version 11.0-20261015 CachyOS/proton-cachyos

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A bugfix release on top of cachyos-11.0-20261014-slr, importing an upstream Wine merge request. The release notes name FL Studio and Genshin CN as the titles it fixes.

Version 11.0-20261005 CachyOS/proton-cachyos

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The wine submodule was rebased wholesale on wine from Proton-EM rather than picking individual patch series, which the notes say makes rebasing against future Experimental drops cheaper. That is a maintenance change, not a performance one.

llvm: 23.1.1 (#1915) CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS

by Peter Jung

LLVM and clang moved to 23.1.1 in one PKGBUILD, with mesa and libtool rebuilt against it in the same commit set. Anyone holding a local mesa build needs the matching LLVM.

mesa: 26.2.4-1 CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS

by Peter Jung

Mesa reached 26.2.4-1 after the LLVM 23 migration, the graphics stack settling behind the compiler bump.

CachyOS Linux 7.2.9-2 CachyOS/linux

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Alongside: the 7.2 series kept shipping through 7.2.9-2, 7.2.10-1 and 7.2.11-1 with the Intel remapped NVMe PCI support, dwarves-1.32 kernel rebuilds, brave-bin and brave-origin-bin at 1.96.60, scx-scheds-git tag bumps and quiet green mirrors.

$ ls cachyos/month/ # the briefings behind this review

Thu Oct 1 Browsers to 1.96.60, kernels rebuilt against dwarves-1.32 Fri Oct 2 LLVM 23.1.1 lands, mesa and libtool rebuilt around it Sat Oct 3 CachyOS kernel hits 7.3-rc5, NVIDIA ISO black-screen heuristic lands Sun Oct 4 Plasma crash fix for NVIDIA 580xx, kernel 7.2.9 lands everywhere Mon Oct 5 Proton CachyOS 11.0 rebases wine on Proton-EM Tue Oct 6 nvidia 580xx confines egl-wayland2 to KWin, boot stack bumps dkms, limine, devtools Wed Oct 7 CachyOS Linux rebases onto 7.3-rc6 Thu Oct 8 Mutter 51.0, Rust headers fixed for out-of-tree modules Fri Oct 9 Nvidia 615.78.08 lands in the PKGBUILDs, server kernel defaults THP to madvise Sat Oct 10 Mesa-git fixed against new anti-lag, AUR-derived packages roll Sun Oct 11 Emerald-KDE moves to Plasma 6, mutter restores tearing-control cleanup Mon Oct 12 jay gains an optional uwsm session, CLI installer refactors LUKS Tue Oct 13 CachyOS mirror checks go green while scx-scheds-git picks up a new tag Wed Oct 14 CachyOS Linux 7.2.10-1 lands as zfs-dkms moves between repos Thu Oct 15 Five AUR-derived packages bumped, mirrors green Fri Oct 16 mutter crash fix lands as 7.2.11-1 kernel rolls out Sat Oct 17 LLVM and clang collapse into one PKGBUILD Sun Oct 18 Proton 11.0-20261014 lands with a Wayland pointer fix Mon Oct 19 CachyOS drops a 500MB straggler, tightens zsh deps, and fixes Steam's font boxes Tue Oct 20 Hyprland flavor drops GNOME keyring, handheld PKGBUILD tightens deps Wed Oct 21 Proton 11.0-20261015 fixes FL Studio and Genshin CN, CachyOS kernel rolls to 7.3.0-2 Thu Oct 22 CachyOS kernel moves to 7.3.0-1 as chwd fixes T2 MacBook modules Fri Oct 23 CachyOS Linux 7.3.0-3 backs out an AMD IOMMU revert, and a 615 runtime D3 fix lands in kernel-patches Sat Oct 24 Two hooks fixes, an NVIDIA D3 patch, and kernel 7.3.0-4 Sun Oct 25 Server kernel adopts upstream PREEMPT config as ungoogled-chromium jumps to 156 Mon Oct 26 Nvidia 470xx profile dropped, installer defaults change Tue Oct 27 nvidia-580xx 580.196.07 lands with matching kernel patches; reboot hook goes multilingual Wed Oct 28 Rate-mirrors reprioritizes Zyner, five AUR bumps Thu Oct 29 Five automated AUR bumps land, mirrors report green Fri Oct 30 Routine automated bumps across AUR-derived packages Sat Oct 31 CachyOS kernel moves to 7.3.1, new sched branch

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