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Omarchy 4.5 hits release candidate with 50 languages and per-monitor workspaces

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Omarchy's first feature release since Quattro is out as v4.5.0-rc3, and it is explicitly an RC: per-monitor workspaces, floating workspaces with a dock, rebuilt notifications, and 49 translated languages beyond English.

v4.5.0-rc3 basecamp/omarchy

by ryanrhughes

The release notes open with a plain warning: "Expect bugs, rough edges, and the occasional thing that breaks outright," and advise running it on a test machine or ensuring a rollback snapshot exists before upgrading a machine you depend on. The feature list is large enough that 4.5 is a candidate for a rebuild, not a drop-in patch.

Update translations basecamp/omarchy

by omarchybot

The bot-run Sync translations workflow extracts leftover embedded English into the catalogs and fills pending translations for all 49 languages, then validates and merges the pull request itself. That is what backs the 4.5 release claim of speaking 50 languages, so a missing string is a catalog gap rather than an untranslated release.

Fix the shell tests that fail on a desktop run (#17388) basecamp/omarchy

by Omarchybot

The shell tests that failed on a desktop run now keep testing what they claim: agent-account-exec-test scoped mise to only the wrapper declarations, because a full etc/mise config declared the agents as lazy tools that mise tried to install before reaching the fake CLI. The fix matters to anyone running this suite locally, where the old setup hit the network instead of the test double.

Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on November 3, 2026?
Omarchy's first feature release since Quattro is out as v4.5.0-rc3, and it is explicitly an RC: per-monitor workspaces, floating workspaces with a dock, rebuilt notifications, and 49 translated languages beyond English. In total, 14 commits, 14 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Linux on November 3, 2026?
2 developers shipped this update, including ryanrhughes and omarchybot.
What were the notable Linux updates?
v4.5.0-rc3, Update translations, and Fix the shell tests that fail on a desktop run (#17388).