$ cat cachyos/week/2026-10-12.log
the week in review · Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2026
Kernel moves to 7.2.11 while Proton 11.0 lands
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Two kernel releases in four days and a Wayland pointer fix in Proton reached users this period, alongside a mutter crash fix.
CachyOS Linux 7.2.11-1 CachyOS/linux
The second kernel of the period rebases to upstream 7.2.11 and adds the linux-7.2.y branch, whose first applied patch fixes DMA mapping length in bnxt_en for padded buffers. If you run Broadcom bnxt hardware, that is the one line in the diff aimed at you.
Version 11.0-20261014 CachyOS/proton-cachyos
Proton (SLR and Native) moved to the Experimental build dated 11.0-20261014, with wine rebased on top of Wine Bleeding Edge. The Wine bleeding-edge tag in the release notes reads experimental-wine-bleeding-edge-11.0-453249-20261016.
CachyOS Linux 7.2.10-1 CachyOS/linux
The earlier release rebased 7.2.9 to 7.2.10 and carried a drm/i915/dp fix that wakes the DPRx for eDP during DPCD init. It kept the 7.2/vesa-dsc-bpp branch in the applied set.
mutter: fix NULL pending-state dereference in tearing cleanup CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
A NULL pending-state dereference in tearing cleanup is fixed in mutter. The report describes launching Alan Wake 2 via Faugus Launcher or the new Epic Games Launcher crashing GNOME Shell back to GDM with mutter 51.0-2, though the reporter had not confirmed it reproduces for other launchers.
zfs-dkms: Drop package since its custom maintained CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
The derived repo dropped zfs-dkms because it is custom maintained elsewhere, and [13] the package reappears in CachyOS-PKGBUILDS. Anyone building zfs-dkms should be tracking the new location.
jay: Add optional uwsm session for systemd support (#118) CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
jay now offers an optional uwsm session for systemd support, added as an opt-in rather than a default. A rebase and bump followed the initial commit.
gucc: refactor luks version types CachyOS/New-Cli-Installer
The LUKS version types are refactored in the new CLI installer, with the new IO exec helpers taking passed stdin. [6] The same work converts the installer to io and string helpers, the kind of groundwork that precedes new installer features.
ci: Add custom script for specific packages CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
Alongside: CI script hooks for specific packages, @upptime bumped to v1.45.1 and v1.45.2, scx-scheds-git tag bumps, an arch-update rebase to v4.4.3, automated bumps for helium-browser-bin (0.19.3.1) and heroic-games-launcher (2.22.4), and Vietnam mirror checks returning 200.
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