$ ls cachyos/reviews/ # the step-back reads
CachyOS in review
One review per week (and month): what shipped, what broke, what to act on.
Nov 2–8, 2026 weekly [plan] 8 stories
CachyOS 7.3.3-1 ships with EAC signing key
The week also brought kernel 6.18.60 with Intel remapped NVMe support and UKI boot entries in systemd-boot-manager.
Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
Kernel moves to 7.3.1 with new sched branch
The same window dropped the nvidia-dkms-470xx driver profile and stopped baking the kms hook into initramfs by default.
Oct 19–25, 2026 weekly 8 stories
Proton 11.0-20261015 lands Wine fix for FL Studio
The CachyOS kernel shipped four revisions in a week, walking from 7.3.0-1 to 7.3.0-4 with T2, AMD IOMMU, and handheld patches.
Oct 12–18, 2026 weekly 8 stories
Kernel moves to 7.2.11 while Proton 11.0 lands
Two kernel releases in four days and a Wayland pointer fix in Proton reached users this period, alongside a mutter crash fix.
Oct 5–11, 2026 weekly 7 stories
Proton CachyOS 11.0 rebases wine on Proton-EM
CachyOS also rebased its kernel onto Linux 7.3-rc6 and pulled in Mutter 51.0 during the week of October 5 to 11.
Oct 1–31, 2026 monthly [plan] 8 stories
CachyOS kernel lands on 7.3.1, T2 fixes reverted
The 7.3 line moved through five point releases in nine days, adding a 7.3/sched branch and AMD IOMMU work.
Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
CachyOS kernel 7.3-rc5 lands, six packages drop
The 7.2.9 line also hit 7.2.9-2, while neofetch, gwe and supergfxctl were cut for being unmaintained upstream.
Sep 21–27, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
CachyOS kernel rolls 7.3-rc4 and enables oomd
Both kernel tracks shipped this week, and cachyos-settings turned systemd-oomd back on by default after kernel OOM regressions.
Sep 14–20, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
CachyOS 7.2.5-1 lands, cachy-update hardens temp files
Three kernel lines moved this week (7.2.5-1, 6.18.52-1, 7.3-rc3-4) while a coordinated security fix shipped in cachy-update.
Sep 7–13, 2026 weekly [act] 8 stories
CachyOS Linux 7.3-rc2 lands with HDMI branch
The stable 6.18 branch adds the T2 Mac driver stack while 7.2.4 picks up the t2bce managed device link fix.
Sep 1–30, 2026 monthly [plan] 8 stories
CachyOS rebases to 7.3-rc5, drops six packages
The month tracked Linux 7.3 from rc1 to rc5 while the stable 7.2 and 6.18 trees absorbed T2 Mac drivers and NVIDIA rebuilds.
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 weekly [act]
CachyOS Linux 7.3-rc1 lands with NVIDIA fixes
Kernel 6.18.48-2 breaking change and 7.3-rc1-2 roll out alongside chwd convertible PRIME matching.
Aug 24–30, 2026 weekly
Handheld gaming overhaul, kernel 7.2 line matures, cachy-update rebases to v4.2.0
This week CachyOS shipped a major handheld gaming session-control milestone, moved the mainline kernel through three releases, and rebase...
Aug 1–31, 2026 monthly
CachyOS ships Linux 7.2.0 stable, expands translator and mirror reach
August saw CachyOS deliver Linux 7.2.0 stable with new schedulers, plus a broad i18n push and a restored Plasma login manager
Keep up with CachyOS in about 3 minutes: what actually shipped — the commits, pull requests, releases, and security advisories that matter.
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