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the week in review · Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2026
Omarchy 4.0.5 moves to Qt 6.12 ahead of feature release
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The same release bumps the stable ring packages and ships an updated Omarchy kernel with the BORE scheduler, with the upgrade breaking for existing installs.
v4.0.5 basecamp/omarchy
Alongside Qt 6.12, the stable ring packages and the BORE scheduler kernel, the release notes say it is being prepped "as we prep for the next feature release coming soon." The input flags it as breaking, so existing installs should not treat it as a drop-in patch.
Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.3-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux torvalds/linux
Paul Walmsley's pull request carries "Several security fixes, a significant strnlen() regression fix, and several other miscellaneous fixes," including a regression in the Zbb-enabled strnlen() implementation. If you build for RISC-V with the bit-manipulation extension enabled, that string path is worth retesting.
Fail tests when the shell polls while idle or the fast paths get slow again (#15196) basecamp/omarchy
The perf work earlier in the cycle was held in place by a sentence in AGENTS.md; these tests now fail when the shell polls while idle or a fast path slows down. Where possible they count processes or tmux clients rather than timing, so results hold across machines.
landlock: Drop __counted_by from landlock_domain.handled_masks torvalds/linux
With clang 22 and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, a second landlock_restrict_self() call triggers a bogus fortify report in inherit_ruleset(), reading a 4 byte write against buffer size 0. Dropping __counted_by silences the false positive; kernels built with that toolchain and config were hitting it on the second restriction, not the first.
Merge tag 'libcrypto-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux torvalds/linux
Eric Biggers' pull fixes two Poly1305 bugs including a lost carry bit, and adds a regression test, per the merge tag. Poly1305 backs AEAD constructions in the kernel crypto API, so anything routing MACs through it should pick up the fix.
Track the power profile through Quickshell instead of polling busctl basecamp/omarchy
The battery service ran busctl about 43k times a day just to learn whether power-saver was active, roughly 43,000 processes for one boolean. It now follows Quickshell's native PowerProfiles.profile binding, so the wallpapers still stop in power-saver on battery without the process churn.
Read the keyboard seat again when /dev/input changes instead of every 10 seconds basecamp/omarchy
Seats with an external keyboard polled hyprctl -j devices every 10 seconds in every bar; the author's laptop counts four keyboards with a KVM and fcitx5's virtual one. The widget now re-reads on /dev/input changes, which is the only time a layout can actually change.
Support the NVIDIA N1x laptops (#14820) basecamp/omarchy
N1x bring-up is gated on the new omarchy-hw-n1x detector (ACPI NVDA0200 MediaTek I2C controllers or the 10de:2e06 GB20B GPU, aarch64 only), so x86_64 behaviour is untouched. Alongside: Kimi joined the agents panel with session, weekly, and monthly quotas [15], and bar widgets can now live in the tray drawer [16].
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