$ cat cachyos/week/2026-10-19.log
the week in review · Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026
Proton 11.0-20261015 lands Wine fix for FL Studio
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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.
Version 11.0-20261015 CachyOS/proton-cachyos
Both the SLR and Native builds pick up a merge request taken from upstream Wine that fixes FL Studio and Genshin CN; the release is a bugfix on top of cachyos-11.0-20261014-slr, so gaming users on Proton have a concrete reason to update.
CachyOS Linux 7.3.0-3 CachyOS/linux
The 7.3/amd-iommu branch reverts "iommu/amd: Force identity mode for selected GPUs only," backing out a change that had gone in with 7.3.0-2. It is the second revision of the kernel in three days, following the 7.3/t2 work on Apple hardware.
CachyOS Linux 7.3.0-4 CachyOS/linux
The 7.3/cachy and 7.3/t2 branches both moved: PCI gains Intel remapped NVMe device support while vga_switcheroo defers probing display devices on T2 machines. Two further kernel-patches changes this week added handheld and rt-i915 patches.
t2: Update module names in the profiles (#275) CachyOS/chwd
The hardware detection tool renamed the modules its T2 MacBook PCI profiles load, so users who switch kernels no longer match profiles against stale module names.
github-copilot-app-bin: Drop due massive size CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
The maintainer removed the package for size alone, per the commit signing off by Peter Jung. Anyone who installed it from the AUR-derived set will need to source it elsewhere.
cachyos-hypr-noctalia: removed gnome keyring dep (#1919) CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
The Hyprland flavor no longer drags in GNOME keyring; the same change adds a generic secrets requirement, so users keep a working keyring any way they go.
cachyos-gaming-applications: Add xorg-fonts-misc (#1977) CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
The Steam updater window draws with X core fonts, and non-Latin glyphs only exist in the iso10646-1 bitmap fonts shipped by xorg-fonts-misc, so ru_RU, bg_BG, and zh_CN locales saw boxes instead of text until this dependency landed.
cachyos-rate-mirrors: pull in network-online from the service, not the timer CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
Alongside: cachyos-rate-mirrors moved network-online.target from the timer into the service, dropping roughly 5.6 seconds of NetworkManager-wait-online from every boot now that rating runs every 10 days; a cachyos-zsh-config fix dropped an unnecessary vim dependency, cachyos-mirrorlist gained a US East mirror, and a cachyos/distrobox image arrived.
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