AerynOS, an atomic-update-based Linux distro currently in alpha, rolled out a new Unstable Stream update, delivering one of the distribution’s biggest updates in recent months. While the package refresh is broad, the main highlight is the arrival of Versioned Repositories phase 2, a long-in-development feature the team says lays the basis for smoother future OS-level upgrades.
Importantly, due to this repository transition, users are advised to run sudo moss sync -u twice before rebooting. The first run upgrades the repository configuration to the new format. The second pulls the latest packages from the updated unstable stream.
Another important change concerns systemd packaging. It has been reworked so that manually enabled or disabled systemd units will no longer be overridden during moss package transactions. However, users should be aware that network interface names may change after rebooting, for example from eth0 to names such as enp12s0.
In addition, several systemd components are now split into separate packages, including systemd-boot, systemd-coredump, systemd-homed, systemd-container, systemd-oomd, systemd-resolved, systemd-timesyncd, systemd-udev, and systemd-userdbd. Users not relying on pkgsets, or those manually using any of these components, are advised to install the needed packages directly.
On the desktop side, the update brings KDE Plasma 6.7.2 and Linux kernel 7.1. The distro also adds COSMIC 1.2 and GNOME 50.3-related updates, alongside KDE Gear 26.04.3, Mesa 26.1.4, PipeWire 1.6.7, WirePlumber 0.5.15, Rust 1.96, Wine 11.12, Firefox 152, Thunderbird 152, Git 2.55, linux-firmware 20260622, and Linux kernel 6.18.38 LTS.
The update further includes Docker 29.6.1, Docker Compose 5.3, OpenVPN 2.7.5, PHP 8.5.8, BlueZ 5.87, curl 8.21.0, libvirt 12.5.0, Neovim 0.12.4, Nano 9.1, Tmux 3.7, and many other package refreshes.
There are also several fixes, including one for Graphviz plugins not loading correctly, another for bcachefs failing to detect kernel features and falling back to slower code, and a fix for extra kernel modules failing to generate BTF information, which may improve sleep behavior for NVIDIA users. The team is also asking users with NVIDIA GPUs supported by the open kernel modules to help with testing.
Finally, the update includes a few new packages, including croc for secure file transfers between computers, dua-cli and dust for disk usage analysis, plus Plasma Bigscreen and Plasma Vault.
For more details, see the official announcement.
