$ cat cachyos/week/2026-09-28.log
the week in review · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
CachyOS kernel 7.3-rc5 lands, six packages drop
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The 7.2.9 line also hit 7.2.9-2, while neofetch, gwe and supergfxctl were cut for being unmaintained upstream.
CachyOS Linux 7.3-rc5-1 CachyOS/linux
Rebased onto upstream 7.3-rc5 from rc4. The 7.3/xswap branch is gone and 7.3/fixes carries a single addition: mm/slub now refills prefilled sheaves from the barn. RC users should expect the usual churn, not stability.
CachyOS Linux 7.2.9-2 CachyOS/linux
The stable-track kernel moves to 7.2.9 with 7.2/cachy updated to add Intel remapped NVMe device support. That is the version to run if you want the NVMe fix without riding an rc.
Cleanup/deprecated package removal. CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
Packaging directories for neofetch, gwe, qgnomeplatform, adwaita-qt, supergfxctl and plasma6-applets-supergfxctl are deleted, with the applet going together with the daemon it requires. The stated reason is that the upstream projects are archived or explicitly unmaintained. Anything you installed from those names needs a replacement or a pin.
Eliminate early KMS usage in favor of proper systemd chainload CachyOS/chwd
The proposal is to stop using early KMS to paper over driver and display-manager races, and instead tie getty and display-manager to the graphics services through the systemd chainload so they wait properly. Anyone carrying an early KMS quirk in their config should watch how this lands.
Rewrite and improve update-initramfs CachyOS/cachyos-hooks
The initramfs hook drops its root check, switches to /bin/sh, adds limine-dracut support, and corrects dracut handling on the finding that dracut-rebuild behaves as a helper script. If you generate initramfs outside mkinitcpio, this is the piece to re-read.
Fix version tags CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
Pinned-commit packages were bumping only pkgver while still building the old commit, because pkgctl version upgrade does not bump commits, and some packages override the pkgver bump entirely. Maintainers carrying pinned packages should check that their published version matches what actually gets built.
plymouth: Sync with Arch Linux package CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
Plymouth packaging is resynced with the Arch Linux package, trimming a CachyOS-local divergence in the boot splash stack.
brave-origin-bin: update to 1.96.60 CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
Alongside: the CLI and desktop stragglers shipped, with brave-bin and brave-origin-bin at 1.96.60, claude-code at 2.1.284, github-copilot-cli at 1.0.89 and chatgpt-desktop-bin at 26.924.51851.
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