Release Announcement: Nitrux 1.6.1

Today is the day! — Nitrux 1.6.1 is available to download

We are pleased to announce the launch of Nitrux 1.6.1. This new version brings together the latest software updates, bug fixes, performance improvements, and ready-to-use hardware support.

Nitrux 1.6.1 is available for immediate download.

✨ What’s new

For new users of the distribution, we recommend performing a fresh installation using the latest available media. For users of the previous version (1.6.0) please check the Notes.

The 5.14.8 non-LTS kernel is now the default in the distribution.

We offer the latest mainline LTS and (as of this post) non-LTS kernels from our repository, currently 5.10.69 and 5.14.8. respectively.

To install or reinstall either of these kernels, run one of the following commands.

sudo apt install linux-image-mainline-lts
sudo apt install linux-image-mainline-current

We’ve updated the LTS 5.4 kernel to version 5.4.149.

To install this kernel, run one of the following commands.

sudo apt install linux-image-mainline-lts-5.4

We also offer the latest (as of this post) Liquorix and Xanmod kernels from our repository, currently 5.14.0-8.1, 5.14.1, and 5.14.8-cacule, respectively.

To install either of these kernels, run one of the following commands.

sudo apt install linux-image-liquorix
sudo apt install linux-image-xanmod
sudo apt install linux-image-xanmod-cacule

We also offer the latest (as of this post) Linux Libre LTS and non-LTS kernels from our repository, currently 5.10.69 and 5.14.8, respectively.

To install either of these kernels, run one of the following commands.

sudo apt install linux-image-libre-lts 
sudo apt install linux-image-libre-current

We’ve updated the following components of the distribution. For a most extensive list of changes see Notes.

KDE Plasma to version 5.22.5, KDE Frameworks to version 5.86.0, KDE Gear to version 21.08.1.
Firefox and it’s available as an AppImage (sandboxed) by default.
Inkscape to version 1.1.1.
QML modules of Calamares to use a new Summary module (summary).

We’ve updated the minimal ISO to the same base as the main release.

To install other DEs using the minimal ISO, see Installing other DEs in Nitrux.

📥 Download

Here are various ways to download our ISOs and virtual appliances.

Checksums (MD5).

b0e7d3e7c389b4c21f82c99d5626510f  nitrux-release-minimal-amd64_2021.09.30.iso
2e59be1983d5022bec6f30d39bc6c16a  nitrux-release-amd64_2021.09.30.iso

ISO build log (Travis CI).

To see the build commit information, open the ISO file with a file archiver and open the text file named “.INFO”. When reporting bugs, please add this information so that we can review the build log. All of our ISO files (past and present) contain this file.

Build logs.
- nitrux-release-amd64_2021.09.30.iso.
- nitrux-release-minimal-amd64_2021.09.30.iso.

⛔ Known issues

To see a list of known issues, click here.

🗒 Notes

To see a list of release notes, click here.

🐞 Report bugs

To report bugs, please use our bug tracker at GitHub.

📝 Changelog history

To see a list of previous changelogs, click here for the changelogs archived at our site, or click here for the changelogs archived at Sourceforge.

📰 Resources

Here are various articles, tutorials, and other information directly on our blog.

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