Unstable Stream Update: 17th of January, 2026
This week, we waited a little longer to do this Unstable Stream Update because COSMIC DE 1.0.2 and KDE Plasma 6.5.5 came out alongside Linux 6.18.5, which were all duly landed.
In addition, Reilly Brogan also did a bunch of upgrades (with some feature enablement on top) all across our recipes repository. So now gvfs and vlc will let you use NFS shares as well.
For JS developers, NodeJS 24 was landed and is now the default in the repository.
For gamers, installing Steam now causes the ntsync module to get loaded automatically. And speaking of gamers, we also had a new contributor join who has access to NVIDIA cards and may potentially be able to help us set those up correctly for use with dGPUs.
Meanwhile, joebonrichie added support for debuginfod, which enables automagical downloading of relevant dbginfo files when firing up gdb or lldb to investigate issues. This yields a much more streamlined Developer Experience than before, where each relevant dbginfo file needed to be installed manually.
On the documentation side, NomadicCore landed new guidance for packagers in relation to how we believe high quality Pull Requests should look (https://aerynos.dev/packaging/workflow/updating-an-existing-recipe/).
Highlights
- COSMIC DE 1.0.2
- GNOME 49.3 application updates
- KDE Plasma 6.5.5
- discord: 0.0.120
- fish: 4.3.3
- lazygit 0.58.1
- linux-desktop 6.18.5
- linux-firmware v20260110
- linux-handheld 6.18.5
- prism-launcher 10.0
- qemu 10.2.0
- ruby 4.0.1
- syncthing 2.0.13
- vscode 1.108.0
- vscodium 1.108.10359
- wine 11.0
- zed: 0.218.7
Major Upgrades
- KDE Gear v25.12.1
- KDE Frameworks v6.22
- libwacom 2.17.0 (for use with drawing tablets)
- pip 25.3 + rebuilds
New Packages
- brush 0.3.0-dev (bash shell written in Rust)
- foot terminal 1.25.0
- ghostty terminal 1.3.0-dev
- gtk4-layer-shell 1.3.0
- pandoc 3.8.3
- signal-desktop 7.84.0
- zig 0.15.2
Full git changelog
As usual, there are many other updates not mentioned here as the list would get too long. You can see the full changelog here:
How to Contribute
As ever, feel free to report any issues below and join our Zulip-desktop server (https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/).
















