AerynOS.comAerynOS February 2026 Project update
We have had a pretty busy month this month around the project. Find out all the juicy details in the latest blog post!
https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/02/28/february-2026-project-update/
AerynOS build infrastructure demo
Demonstration of our 4 builders churning through Plasma 6.6, visualised on our Summit dashboard.
We have and continue to build our tooling to make packaging and distro management as easy as possible. The infrastructure is flexible to add more builders as needed and these visualisation options help diagnose issues as they may arise.
Video Speed - 4x
Total time from recipe merge to available in repo - ~30 minutes
Less than a month ago, I posted about AerynOS making it into the Distrowatch Top40.
Now, just less than a month later, we have managed to get into the Top30 and our hits per day are still increasing.
It's fair to say the Distrowatch ranking isn't an accurate sign of popularity in the sense of active users. All the distros around AerynOS in the rankings will dwarf us in actual installs.
What I do think this points to is that people are becoming increasingly aware of AerynOS and are interested in following along with our progress whilst we are on our journey in eventually delivering a robust and stable solution.
We have just reached 1100 followers on Mastodon.
Whilst in of itself, not a massive number, our follower count has steadily been growing as more people become aware of our work and engaged in what we are trying to deliver!
We are looking forward to continuing our mission on delivering a great set of distro tooling and eventually a stable, performant Linux distribution!
AerynOS Project Update and ISO release: January 2026
https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/31/january-2026-project-update/
A big update for January to kick off 2026 along with a new ISO release for you all to get your hands on.
Unstable Stream Update: 6/01/26
Cosmic DE 1.0.1
Firefox & Thunderbird 146.0.1
Fish 4.3.2
Kitty 0.45.0
Waydroid 1.6.1
Mesa 25.3.3
Plus other package updates, fixes and new package inclusion.
https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/126
If you're interested in our work and want to engage with the team, come join us on our Zulip server
aerynos.zulipchat.com
To support the project financially, you can donate via Ko-fi
The AerynOS team have taken a retrospective look at 2025 for our latest blog post
AerynOS 2025.12 ISO release and update blog post
https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/12/09/november-and-early-december-blog-post/
It's been a busy period for the AerynOS team with updates across the board including a number of "back end" changes as well.
We have implemented a new server, changed to Zulip for our instant messaging platform and changed our email provider all whilst continuing to land package updates including KDE Plasma 6.5.4 and Cosmic Beta 9. We have fixed a number of bugs and started landing new features.
Next up is our Versioned Repositories work which will enable big changes to our capabilities in 2026!
As ever, if you want to engage with the project please join us on Zulip:
https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/
To sponsor the project, you can donate to us on Ko-Fi:
#AerynOS #Linux #Rust #KDE #CosmicDesktop #System76 #Zulip #netcup #distrodevelopment
Major updates
COSMIC Beta 9
bash 5.3.8
docker 29.0
libinput 1.30.0
libxkbcommon 1.13.0
linux-desktop 6.17.10
linux-firmware 20251125
llvm 21.1.7
wireshark 4.6.1
zlib-ng 2.3.1
Other updates
Other updates include, but are not limited to:
easyeffects
github-cli
gstreamer
libevdev
libproxy
lvm2
openvpn
sqlite
vscodium
Fixes
xdg-utils fixed to work with Plasma 6
WebkitGTK saw a CVE security fix
New packages
akonadiconsole
buildah
gamemode
skopeo
openjdk-17
openjdk-21
prism-launcher (Minecraft!)
Full git changelog
As usual, there are many other minor updates not mentioned 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 the AerynOS Zulip server (https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/) community.
How to donate
If you appreciate the work we are doing and are in a position to do so, we would appreciate any donations sent our way via our Ko-Fi donations page:
Thank you!
Thank you to all our supporters and contributors. You are making a difference! ❤️
Unstable Stream updates: 5th of December 2025
Changes
This Unstable Stream update took a bit longer than usual to come together, and brings several interesting changes and updates highlighted below.
What do you mean by "Unstable Stream"?
We are preparing to land a change related to our Versioned Repositories, phase 1 (https://github.com/AerynOS/infra/pull/142) PR.
This change will in the near future enable to users to 'moss sync -u' against either fixed-in-time "tags" or against regularly updated "streams".
Once this change has been landed, most users will 'moss sync -u' against the Unstable Stream, while packagers will 'moss sync -u' and boulder build against the Volatile Stream in their default build profile.
We are introducing the new concept now so our users can begin to get used to the new terminology before we land the changes.
STATUS: The Versioned Repository, phase 1 features have NOT been landed yet. No user action is required at this time.
Highlights
UEFI Firmware build changes
We now build aarch64 UEFI firmware so it is now possible to boot emulated UEFI aarch64 VMs after installing the qemu-system-aarch64 package. As part of this we now build the x64_86 firmware as an ELF format executable rather than a PE/COFF format executable (which is the "official" format used by the UEFI specification). Qemu fully supports using UEFI firmware in ELF format so this is not expected to cause any changes.
i386 UEFI firmware is no longer built. It is unlikely that anyone was actually using it.
binfmt support has been enabled in our qemu user-space packages. It is now possible to install qemu-user-aarch64 or qemu-user-arm in order to launch aarch64 or arm binaries directly without any further changes. Note: such binaries will need to be statically compiled as we do not provide an aarch64/arm user-space.
Minimum supported kernel version update
AerynOS user-space now requires at least kernel 6.1, up from a previous requirement of kernel 5.15.
This should only affect users using our 'boulder' build tool on other distributions or otherwise running AerynOS containers.
