The installer now features animated desktop previews, Winboat integration, a revamped website, and significant changes to the portable version.
The installer now shows animated previews GIF/WebP images have been added to the Desktop Selection section to showcase all available options. This feature is currently available for Plasma, GNOME, Niri, and COSMIC, giving users a better idea of what to expect before making a choice. Additionally, support for the JPEG XL format has been added to the Desktop Selection section to reduce image size. The desktop list has been sorted from simple and accessible options to more advanced ones, such as window managers. Cachy-Update is now enabled by default when installing GNOME and KDE. Improved firmware installation logic: the system now detects the hardware and installs the appropriate firmware, rather than both at once and then uninstalls the unnecessary one. The error message when the EFI partition is too small has also been improved.
CachyOS-Welcome now includes a button for easy installation and activation of Winboat for convenient work with the virtual machine Windows Docker. Added support for keyboard navigation.
Regarding the kernel, linux-cachyos now publishes tagged releases to a dedicated repository. Linux, abandoning the previous approach of using separate patches (0001-cachyos-base-all.patch). chwd significantly reduced the initramfs size for configurations with NVIDIA GPUs. We also improved the service for users in China with cachyos-rate-mirrors, which now performs a thorough check of mirrors before rating them. In cachyos-settings, the wireless throttling domain is now automatically set according to the user's time zone. The website design has been redesigned and improved to meet more modern standards.
Regarding fixes, we've removed bcachefs from the list of filesystems, as it now requires bcachefs-dkms. We've also fixed encryption when using LUKS2 and enabled the "ly" display manager. In cachyos-settings, cachyos-bugreport.sh now hides the IP address, username, hostname, and MAC address.
Finally, we are pleased to announce new mirrors in Russia (jura12, cachy-arch.ru), Sweden (Zyner) and Canada (All Things Linux).
Update mirrors, update the system: sudo cachyos-rate-mirrors sudo paru -Syu
Download the installation ISO for PC: c archlinux, and c jurassic12, sha256
Source: linux.org.ru
