$ cat cachyos/week/2026-10-26.log
the week in review · Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026
Kernel moves to 7.3.1 with new sched branch
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The same window dropped the nvidia-dkms-470xx driver profile and stopped baking the kms hook into initramfs by default.
CachyOS Linux 7.3.1-1 CachyOS/linux
The rebase from 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 carries two branch moves: 7.3/t2 updated and a new 7.3/sched branch added next to it. Apple x86 machines lose acpi battery and adapter handling in this build, so check that hardware before upgrading.
profiles/graphic_drivers: Drop nvidia-dkms-470xx profile CachyOS/chwd
chwd no longer matches the 470 series legacy driver, which leaves anything still on those older cards without an automatic graphics profile. Pin the driver explicitly or move to the 580 line, which got matching kernel patches this week.
nvidia-580xx: bump version to 580.196.07 (#2052) CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
The 580 series advances to 580.196.07 in CachyOS-PKGBUILDS, and kernel-patches added the corresponding 7.3 patches so the module builds against the current kernel tree. Together those two landings are what make the 580 upgrade safe to take.
initcpiocfg: Remove kms hook by default CachyOS/cachyos-calamares
Calamares installs no longer write the kms hook into initcpiocfg by default. New installs boot a slimmer early initramfs, but a hand-rolled config that relied on the old default now needs the hook added back.
7.3: Add nvidia-580xx patches CachyOS/kernel-patches
Peter Jung's patch set puts the nvidia-580xx module source in line with 7.3, the prerequisite for the packaging bump above to compile and load. Nvidia users on the CachyOS kernel should update the patch package and the driver together.
reboot-required: Translate the notification with gettext (#22) CachyOS/cachyos-hooks
The "Reboot recommended!" popup was English-only. It now runs through bash's $"..." translation with the cachyos-reboot-required text domain, catalogs in po/ for the template plus Russian, picking the language from the pacman environment.
cachyos-rate-mirrors: try to set zyner archlinux mirror as 1st prio CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
rate-mirrors now tries to rank the zyner Arch mirror first, part of an effort to shift traffic off the CDN77 mirror. Reflections land in the mirrorlist you already sync from, so no config change is needed.
fix(lockfile): Fix cross user lockfile handling (#841) CachyOS/cachy-update
The update tool's lockfile can now be held through a read-only file descriptor, so a user can participate in a lock created by another user instead of colliding with it. Alongside: netbird joined the AUR-derived set at 0.81.4 (x86_64 only, no check()), a duplicate cosmic-greeter entry left netinstall.yaml, and routine bumps brought noctalia-shell to 5.4.0, opentabletdriver to 0.6.8.1, and Cachy...
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