Release Announcement: Nitrux 7.0.0

We are pleased to announce the launch of Nitrux 7.0.0. This new version combines the latest software updates, bug fixes, performance improvements, and ready-to-use hardware support.

• ⚠️ Important: Despite the efforts and improvements in this and previous releases, we’re not claiming to be security or forensic experts or that the distribution is “impenetrable” or “unhackable,” so there is no misunderstanding. Suggestions for improving this area are welcome on our organization’s GitHub (open a new discussion).

If you use the previous version (6.1.0), once the OTA update is available, use the Nitrux Update Tool System.

• For a detailed tutorial on the update process, see Resources → Tutorials → System.
• ⚠️ Important: Due to major changes in this release, Documentation updates will roll out over the next few days. If you need help, please visit the supported help channels.

Compartmentalized Architecture

Audentes fortuna iuvat—fortune favors the bold. Nitrux 7.0.0 embodies that principle through a visual and architectural overhaul built around one conviction: cohesion does not require a monolith.

The Workspace Environment is Nitrux’s answer to a problem modern desktops have normalized. A desktop should provide one coherent workspace without forcing every function into a single shell, session, or process hierarchy. The Workspace Environment applies the discipline of specialized systems: each component owns a responsibility, a lifecycle, and a defined relationship with the rest.

This is Lifecycle Decoupling. The shell components and session utilities run as an independent, rootless user-session hierarchy governed by nwsm, Nitrux’s OpenRC-based session lifecycle manager. Valenz, Marina, Workspace Settings, Desklock, QMLogout, QMLGreet, NudgeOSD, and the applications built with MauiKit are not unrelated utilities assembled by convention. They are deliberate components of a first-party environment that shares a common visual and architectural language.

MauiKit extends this discipline to presentation. A consistent interface is not a decorative layer placed over unrelated software; it is a contract. Applications share behavior, navigation, and visual identity while remaining separate programs. Customization exists within that system without dissolving it.

The same principle governs software management. Nitrux does not treat the root filesystem as a universal destination for every tool a user might want. AppBox and Flatpak provide user-space applications. Containers provide development environments and foreign toolchains. Software requiring genuine host integration is handled as a release-root addition, where it can be tested as part of the platform.

AppFinder makes this model visible. It does not pretend that every kind of software belongs in the same place. It gives each category a clear boundary and answers a simple question: where does this software belong?

Simplicity is not about having fewer components; it is about having fewer overlapping ways to solve the same problem.

Nitrux does not promise to support every habit inherited from a general-purpose distribution. It promises something more deliberate: a system with defined boundaries, specialized components, and a first-party experience whose coherence comes from architecture, not compromise.

📜 Table of Contents

1. 1. Updates and Additions
   2. Removals and Deprecations
   3. ISO Download
   4. Known Issues
   5. Report Bugs
   6. Changelog History
   7. Resources
   8. PSA (Post-release Service Announcements)
   9. Get Involved

We’ve updated the following components in the distribution.

• Linux kernel with CachyOS patches (by Nitrux), version 7.2.6.
• Hyprland to version 0.55.4.
  • All the included Hypr utilities are also updated.
• NVIDIA Open Kernel Module to version 615.71.09.
• Lüv icon theme to version 0.8.9.
• KDE Frameworks to version 6.26.0.
• Nitrux Update Tool System to version 3.0.3.
  • Redesigned the updater interface with MauiKit-style cards for system status, update availability, and operation progress.
  • Refined update states, progress presentation, and toolbar controls, and removed the redundant update button.
  • Added branch and commit information to the About dialog and fixed a compile failure.
  • Updated the application icon and desktop entry.
• Cinderward to version 0.0.6.
  • Redesigned the firewall settings interface with responsive MauiKit-style cards.
  • Grouped firewall behavior options, including Lockdown, masquerading, stealth mode, strict ICMP, and denied-packet logging.
  • Refined service, port, source, port-forwarding, and active-rule sections.
  • Added branch and commit information to the About dialog and fixed a build failure.
  • Updated the application icon and desktop entry.
• Wirecloak to version 0.0.4.
  • Redesigned the VPN interface with responsive MauiKit-style cards.
  • Moved tunnel selection and VPN status controls into a dedicated Tunnel Control section.
  • Refined Active Connections and Activity sections, including empty states and status handling.
  • Added branch and commit information to the About dialog and fixed a build failure.
  • Updated the application icon and desktop entry.
• QMLGreet to version 0.1.6.
  • Updated build requirements to Qt 6.9, MauiKit 4.0.4, and KF6 I18n.
  • Replaced custom controls and color-scheme handling with native MauiKit controls and styling.
  • Added configurable background blur, overlay opacity, system/Nerd Font indicators, lowercase dates, and debug battery simulation.
  • Updated the interface to match Desklock and Marina with improved clock/date layout, password entry, battery indicators, and power controls.
  • Improved keyboard focus, authentication handling, session environment isolation, and Wayland layer-shell startup behavior.
• NudgeOSD to version 0.0.9.
  • Refined muted-volume OSD rendering with muted colors, explicit progress-bar styling, and stable percentage/muted badge sizing.
  • Updated the OSD surface with translucent rendering and a subtle text-color border.
  • Improved system icon visibility using MauiKit color heuristics, colorization, and larger icon sizing.
• MauiKit and MauiKit Frameworks to version 4.0.4.
  • Mauikit:
    • Updated MauiKit to 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9 and KF6 6.13 requirements.
    • Added wallpaper-driven adaptive palettes with improved contrast handling for text, selections, delegates, and icons.
    • Added a Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 blur backend with KWindowEffects fallback and rounded blur regions.
    • Improved TabView overviews, browser delegates, custom browser views, drag previews, focus restoration, tooltip handling, selection states, and four-level image zoom.
    • Exposed scrollbar placement through Maui.Style, fixed RTL scrollbar behavior, and improved live MauiMan preference synchronization.
    • Improved toast sizing and optional notification sounds, font-picker controls, popup sizing, dialog layouts, and platform/window behavior.
    • Removed bundled icon assets and obsolete CaskServer integration, switched controls to system icons, and improved high-DPI rendering.
  • Maui Manager:
    • Updated MauiMan to 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9 and KF6 6.13 requirements.
    • Refactored the DBus architecture around Theme, FormFactor, and InputDevices managers with generated property bases, typed interfaces,
    • QML registration, and improved local-settings fallback.
    • Removed legacy Background, Screen, Accessibility, and Maui Shell session-specific modules.
    • Added synchronized scrollBarOnLeft and MauiMan v3 adaptive color-scheme settings, including wallpaper source selection.
    • Improved runtime form-factor and keyboard-layout detection, DBus error handling, and theme resynchronization after server reconnects.
    • Renamed the installed service executable to MauiManServer.
  • MauiKit Frameworks.
    • MauiKit Accounts:
      • Updated MauiKit Accounts to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Standardized masking behavior for the empty accounts view.
      • Improved inline documentation for account properties, methods, signals, selection handling, and account removal behavior.
    • MauiKit Archiver:
      • Updated MauiKit Archiver to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Expanded archive creation with ZIP, 7-Zip, and TAR compression options, including gzip, bzip2, XZ, and Zstandard codecs.
      • Added selectable compression levels and optional AES-256 password protection with password validation and log redaction.
      • Improved archive detection, opening, extraction, and compression-tool discovery.
      • Fixed QML singleton ownership and expanded inline documentation for archive controls and APIs.
    • MauiKit Audio:
      • Updated MauiKit Audio to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Added detailed tracing for audio playback, the decoder, engine, source queue, state, and threads.
      • Improved FFmpeg probing by passing encoded file paths.
      • Expanded inline documentation for MediaPlayer, its properties, playback states, and QML controls.
    • MauiKit Calendar:
      • Updated MauiKit Calendar to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Removed legacy color, attendee, and to-do sorting/filtering models and their obsolete IncidenceWrapper accessors.
      • Renamed KalendarUiUtils.qml to CalendarUiUtils.qml and standardized calendar QML namespace aliases and imports.
      • Fixed missing includes and updated model, control, and calendar manager documentation.
    • MauiKit Documents:
      • Updated MauiKit Documents to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Added PDF form-field editing, text annotations, annotation management, change tracking, and saving or exporting modified documents.
      • Added tiled PDF rendering with caching and cache invalidation for zooming, panning, and document updates.
      • Fixed PDF zoom, horizontal browsing, and panning across orientation and window-size changes.
      • Standardized document-viewer icons and expanded inline documentation for document readers and controls.
    • MauiKit Filebrowsing:
      • Updated MauiKit FileBrowsing to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Added cancellable file-operation handling for copy, paste, move, rename, and delete, with progress, transfer speed, conflict renaming, and a non-modal operation dialog.
      • Added Miller-column browsing with animated navigation, inactive-column effects, file previews, and drag-and-drop support.
      • Added KIO redirect handling for remote locations and cancellable asynchronous file searches.
      • Improved thumbnail caching, MIME detection, audio fallback artwork, preview loading, and hidden-preview media handling.
      • Improved file-dialog sidebars, save filename placement, selection behavior, focus restoration, and stale search/listing handling.
    • MauiKit Imagetools:
      • Updated MauiKit ImageTools to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Redesigned the image editor with a floating footer, sidebar, grid-based adjustment controls, spin boxes, presets, and integrated transform actions.
      • Added undoable interactive cropping with movable and resizable crop frames.
      • Connected image adjustments, color presets, grayscale/B&W effects, borders, rotation, mirroring, and persistent transforms with undo/redo and bounds validation.
      • Fixed preset application, image-format initialization, and masking behavior; removed obsolete debug overlays, logging, and controls.
      • Expanded inline documentation for image metadata, editor items, and OCR controls.
    • MauiKit Terminal:
      • Updated MauiKit Terminal to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Made the selected-text preview in the terminal context menu optional.
      • Fixed terminal scrollbar placement and made it follow the global left/right scrollbar preference.
      • Removed the misaligned search-highlight overlay and obsolete debug output.
      • Improved inline documentation for terminal sessions and custom color schemes.
    • MauiKit TextEditor:
      • Updated MauiKit TextEditor to 4.0.4 and raised the KF6 and MauiKit requirements.
      • Fixed CodeEditor line-number gutter sizing and wrapped-line rendering, including visible ↪ markers and better support for Unicode-heavy files.
      • Replaced symbolic icon references with standard icon names.
      • Improved inline documentation for document handling, alerts, syntax color schemes, line numbers, and text viewing.
• MauiKit Apps to version 4.0.4

• • Pix:
    • Updated Pix to 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, and MauiKit 4.0.4 requirements.
    • Migrated application metadata and desktop identifiers from org.kde.pix to org.maui.pix.
    • Improved gallery file deletion with asynchronous file operations, error handling, an operation dialog, and Delete-key support.
    • Fixed file watching, preview-size synchronization, internal drag handling, viewer loading, thumbnail masking, and focus restoration after dialogs.
    • Removed obsolete close prompts, selection badges, shortcut descriptions, and debug logging.

• • Nota:
    • Updated Nota to 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, and MauiKit 4.0.4 requirements.
    • Migrated application metadata and desktop identifiers from org.kde.nota to org.maui.nota.
    • Added clearing of recent files and simplified document browsing to single-file actions, removing multi-selection, selection bars, and bulk operations.
    • Reduced document context menus to opening files and showing their folders, with safer editor tab defaults and themed empty-state icons.
    • Added a Places-sidebar option to show or hide hidden files.
    • Removed the language selector and related IDE-oriented settings, refined editor color-scheme settings, and hid font-style selection.
    • Fixed document-view focus, current-tab window titles, selection sizing, and recent-file focus restoration.

• • Buho:
    • Updated to Buho 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, and MauiKit 4.0.4.
    • Migrated application identifiers from org.kde.buho to org.maui.buho.
    • Added keyboard shortcuts for note creation, paste, formatting, lists, links, images, preview, and search.
    • Made the preview toggle persistent and improved editor actions.
    • Refined note-card layouts, actions, tag colors, and selection-bar sizing.
    • Simplified the empty state by removing the placeholder New Note button and using the view-pim-notes icon.

• • Clip:
    • Updated to Clip 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, and MauiKit 4.0.4; enabled the bundled FFmpeg preview provider.
    • Migrated the desktop identifier from org.kde.clip to org.maui.clip.
    • Added M3U/M3U8 playlist import and export with playback controls.
    • Improved library synchronization for added and removed videos, source watching, previews, and FFmpeg thumbnail decoding.
    • Refined focus handling, selection state, playlist synchronization, sidebar rendering, and local playback shutdown.
    • Removed remote URL playback and hover video previews, and updated volume controls and display-menu spacing.

• • Fiery:
    • Updated to Fiery 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, and MauiKit 4.0.4.
    • Migrated application identifiers from org.kde.fiery to org.maui.fiery.
    • Added safer session persistence with encoded tab data, pinned-tab restoration, and a Clear Session on Exit option.
    • Added saved credential search, editing, revealing, removal, manual entry, and improved save/autofill prompts.
    • Reorganized browser settings into grouped sections with a downloads folder picker and downloads search.
    • Refined private browsing, tab handling, sidebar layout, browser focus, navigation controls, and empty states.

• • Shelf:
    • Updated to Shelf 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, MauiKit 4.0.4, and MauiKit Documents 4.0.4.
    • Migrated application identifiers from org.kde.shelf to org.maui.shelf.
    • Added shortcuts for fullscreen, first/last page navigation, and document search.
    • Added a persistent OCR preference for PDF text selection.
    • Added saving for modified PDF documents.
    • Improved PDF page tracking, zoom/navigation, keyboard panning, tab cleanup, and viewer exit behavior.
    • Refined the library’s Continue Reading card, document selection, mouse interactions, sidebar menu, and page counter.

• • VVave:
    • Updated to VVave 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, MauiKit 4.0.4, and TagLib 2.0.
    • Migrated application identifiers from org.kde.vvave to org.maui.vvave.
    • Rebuilt the music library around unified, lazy-loaded views for songs, albums, artists, and favorites.
    • Replaced tags with a dedicated Favorites view and added contextual track actions, filtering, and navigation improvements.
    • Added metadata editing with artwork selection, embedding, removal, unsaved-change handling, and live library updates.
    • Improved artwork fetching, caching, high-resolution covers, fallback artwork, theme handling, and volume icons.
    • Fixed playlist behavior, empty-queue playback, seek-bar synchronization, selection focus, keyboard navigation, and playback position preservation.

• • Index:
    • Updated to Index 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, and MauiKit 4.0.4.
    • Migrated application identifiers from org.kde.index to org.maui.index.
    • Added Miller columns with global and per-directory view settings, compact previews, directory sizes, and split-view restrictions.
    • Consolidated file previews into a MauiKit popup with improved media metadata, text wrapping, WebP thumbnails, fallback artwork, and Escape handling.
    • Integrated the MauiKit file-operation dialog and improved paste handling, contextual menus, remote-path behavior, and browser focus restoration.
    • Refined sidebar storage entries, root/partition visibility, persisted sidebar state, path bars, settings categorization, and inactive split-pane rendering.
    • Added safer file metadata handling and replaced bundled PNG artwork with scalable SVG covers.

• • Station:
    • Updated to Station 4.0.4 with Qt 6.9, KF6 6.13, and MauiKit 4.0.4.
    • Migrated application identifiers from org.kde.station to org.maui.station.
    • Added structured command-tab launching with --command, --argument and --working-directory options.
    • Improved D-Bus command forwarding, tab targeting, command quoting, and tab metadata handling.
    • Removed the Ctrl+/ shortcut and redundant shortcut descriptions, and hid the terminal font-style setting.
    • Disabled selection previews in the terminal context menu and updated icon names.
• NX AppHub CLI, daemon, app definitions, and wikis to version 1.2.2:
  • NX AppHub CLI:
    • Added support for downgrading by restoring a specific backup archive non-interactively.
    • Added validation for single-application usage, archive names, and missing backups while preserving interactive selection.
    • Replaced the Nitrux mirrors.
  • NX AppHub Apps:
    • Updated YAML definitions.
• QMLGreet configuration:
  • Synchronize the greeter with the user session by copying Hyprland, MauiMan, and KDE configuration files into the greetd environment.
  • Start additional desktop services for power management, screen handling, wallpaper, idle handling, and display color adjustment.
  • Add automatic idle behavior that dims the screen, powers off displays, and suspends the system after increasing inactivity intervals.
  • Configure daytime and nighttime screen profiles with gamma and temperature adjustments.
  • Expand Wayland environment support for GTK, Qt, portals, cursors, and KDE platform integration.
  • Updated the greeter wallpaper and disabled Hyprland splash rendering.
  • Updated greetd to launch Hyprland with its dedicated configuration.
• OpenRC configuration:
  • Added an nwsm OpenRC configuration that passes graphical session variables to user services, including Wayland, D-Bus, XDG, GTK, Qt, cursor, and Hyprland settings.
  • Keep OpenRC’s default system log path implicit so user-mode services can use per-user state directories for their logs.
• Updated desktop configuration, including:
  • Migrated desktop startup to supervised OpenRC user services for PipeWire, WirePlumber, Hyprland components, Maui services, Valenz, Marina, Vicinae, NudgeOSD, and related daemons.
  • Replaced legacy Hyprlock, Wlogout, Grimshot, Waybar, Crystal Dock, and SwayNC configuration with Desklock, QMLogout, Toma, Marina, Valenz, and NudgeOSD defaults.
  • Updated Hyprland settings, keybindings, gestures, window rules, blur behavior, wallpaper, rounding, and session initialization.
  • Added default configurations for Desklock, Marina, QMLogout, NudgeOSD, Valenz, Vicinae, and the XDG desktop portal.
  • Refined GTK, KDE, MauiKit, Fiery, Index, and color-scheme defaults, including the Catppuccin Latte Nitrux scheme.
  • Removed Bauh configuration and installer assets, legacy autostart scripts, old lock-screen and panel configurations, and updated package dependencies.
• Updated system optimizations, including:
  • Added an XDG applications menu definition to restore proper application categorization and “Open with” behavior.
  • Removed the obsolete nx-battery-notify, nx-dynamic-ppd, and nx-envycontrol utilities and the python3-envycontrol dependency.
  • Expanded kernel and network security tuning with panic recovery, restricted kernel pointers and eBPF, disabled TTY line-discipline autoloading, added RFC 1337 protection, loosened reverse-path filtering, enabled martian logging, and disabled ICMP redirects.
  • Updated IPv6 privacy settings and cleaned up sysctl formatting and obsolete interface-specific overrides.
  • Updated package licensing and copyright metadata to BSD-3-Clause and 2026 ownership.
• Tooling and packaging:
  • Rebuild GRUB with x86_64-v3 optimizations, matching the majority of our built software.
  • Launch Hyprland through nwsm with OpenRC-compatible session handling.
  • Remove several manually built or obsolete drivers and utilities.
  • Improve Vicinae AppImage selection by matching the system architecture.
  • Enable F2FS compression and encryption through the filesystem wrapper.
  • Add a CIFS SPNEGO mitigation and make several cleanup steps more tolerant of missing files.
• Vicinae to version 0.29.0.
• Calamares configuration:
  • Switches Calamares encrypted partition creation from LUKS1 to LUKS2.
  • Uses Argon2id for LUKS2 key derivation when creating the boot keyfile.
  • Updates the installed greetd autologin command to launch Hyprland through nwsm with the required Hyprland environment variable.

We’ve added the following components to the distribution.

• MauiKit System is a new MauiKit framework for shared desktop integration libraries for the MauiKit stack. MauiKit System includes the following modules:
  • system: Shared control-center/system helper APIs for desktop shells and other MauiKit apps.
  • audio: PipeWire/WirePlumber session integration and volume feedback.
  • network: NetworkManager integration for connection management and status.
  • notifications: Freedesktop notifications integration.
  • power: Power management, battery, and brightness integration.
• Nitrux KStyle, a Qt6/KF6 widget style based on Breeze, customized for Nitrux to improve desktop integration for non-MauiKit Qt apps.
  • 🔰 Information: The new Nitrux KStyle is a different codebase from the previous KStyle we used for NX Desktop, which was based on Lightly.
• New default wallpaper: Blossom. Blossom is an ethereal visual composition that opens with a crisp, cool splash of crystalline cyan and airy sky blue.

• Toma: A screenshot and screen-recording utility for Nitrux. A rewrite of our Grimshot script, implemented in C++, and now also supports screen recording.
  • Features:
    • Screenshot: full-screen, region, or window.
    • Screen Capture: full-screen, region, or window.
    • Configurable save location, audio source, recording start delay, frame rate, and recording quality.
• Hyprscreend (C++), a.k.a. hyprscreend-cpp. This implementation replaces shell-script orchestration with a unified C++ daemon that manages Hyprland monitor modes, scaling, power-dependent refresh rates, and external display hotplugging.

• Desklock is a native QML session locker for Wayland environments.
  • Features:
    • Secure lifecycle with one lock surface for every connected output.
    • Direct Linux PAM authentication of the user running Desklock.
    • CPU, memory, and network monitors.
    • Native MPRIS discovery, metadata, album art, and playback controls over the session D-Bus.
    • Configurable fade-in/fade-out durations and clock formats.
• XDG Desktop Portal for Nitrux. It provides MauiKit file and application chooser dialogs and a direct host settings provider for appearance, icon, font, and GTK theme values.

• Valenz is a QML-based workspace shell bar designed for Nitrux and built with MauiKit and LayerShell-Qt.
  • Features:
    • Media, workspace navigation, tray, screenshot, screen capture, launcher, clipboard, and notification controls.
    • Control Center indicators for network, Bluetooth, volume, brightness, battery, power profile, dark mode, and night light.
    • Weather, calendar, and system resource widgets.

• Marina is a QML-based workspace dock designed for Nitrux and built with MauiKit and LayerShell-Qt.
  • Features:
    • Precise space management and multi-output configuration.
    • Hyprland integration to track, group, and cycle through open windows across all workspaces using event-driven updates.
    • Automatic XDG launcher discovery, drag-to-reorder pinning, horizontal scrolling, optional auto-hide, and standard mouse-click controls.
    • Unread-message badges for pinned applications that publish launcher-entry counts, including compatible messaging clients.

• Nitrux PolicyKit Agent, a MauiKit authentication agent for Polkit sessions on Nitrux. The agent uses PolkitQt6’s authentication-agent API for registration and PAM conversation handling.
• Nitrux Power Daemon, a background daemon that unifies Nitrux dynamic power-profile management and battery notifications.

• QMLogout is a native QML logout menu for Wayland environments. It provides a focused MauiKit interface for selecting session actions while running as a LayerShell-Qt overlay.
  • Features:
    • Wayland overlay integration through LayerShell-Qt.
    • Session actions for logout, lock, reboot, suspend, hibernate, and shutdown.
    • MauiKit-based interface with keyboard navigation, hover selection, and configurable countdown activation.
    • Configurable overlay opacity, timeout, avatar image, uptime visibility, and icon mode.
    • Support for system icons and Nerd Font symbols.
    • DPI-aware icon and avatar sizing.
• Nitrux Workspace Session Manager, a.k.a. nwsm, a Nitrux-oriented, OpenRC-native, Hyprland-aware session lifecycle manager. It starts the supplied Wayland session command, waits for a verified Wayland socket, and activates the OpenRC user desktop runlevel. OpenRC still supervises long-running user services. nwsm binds those services to the authenticated graphical session, publishes the compositor environment, and refreshes it when the session creates a replacement Wayland socket. The session supervisor stays active across compositor replacements and restarts the supplied Wayland session command when it exits, or its compositor becomes unavailable.
  • Features:
    • Verifies new Wayland and required compositor IPC sockets before activating session services.
    • Publishes manager-discovered compositor state automatically; nwsm finalize optionally adds compositor-provided variables.
    • Activates and shuts down the OpenRC user desktop runlevel.
    • Refreshes Wayland, compositor, and D-Bus environment after compositor replacement.
    • Bootstraps installed OpenRC user services from /etc/user/init.d and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rc/init.d through rc-update -U records the enrolled services, and preserves later user changes.
    • Detects newly installed service definitions without re-enrolling services removed by the user.
    • Reconciles stale user services before startup and restores the previous activation environment at shutdown.
    • Provides check, status, reconcile, and stop lifecycle controls.
    • Retains the authenticated session across compositor replacement and rehydrates the OpenRC user desktop runlevel.
    • Stops the OpenRC runlevel and removes stale handoff data on intentional session exit.

• Workspace Settings is the dedicated configuration interface for our new, independent shell components and the distribution’s primary control center.
  • Features:
    • Manages appearance, wallpapers, themes, fonts, icons, cursors, colors, and GTK/KDE integration.
    • Configures application default handlers, network connections, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DNS, and VPN imports.
    • Controls for displays, audio, input devices, batteries, power profiles, graphics modes, and accessibility.
    • Offers a common UI for desktop components such as Valenz, Marina, NudgeOSD, the window compositor, screenshots, recordings, and weather.
    • Manages users, locale, date/time, hostname, autostart commands, Hyprland environment variables, and Flatpak permissions.
    • Configures the greeter, lock screen, and logout menu, including wallpapers, avatars, overlays, session behavior, and idle timeouts.

• AppFinder, a software-management GUI for Nitrux. Built with MauiKit.
  • Features:
    • Curated NX AppHub recipes for host-integrated AppBoxes.
    • Mainstream GUI applications from Flathub.
    • Personal AppImage recipes managed by the built-in Bundle Builder.
    • Mutable development environments through Distrobox.

We’ve fixed the following issues in the distribution.

• Fixed Nota being unable to display or open some text files unless they are dragged into the editor.
• Fixed the ssh-keysign-pwn mitigation causes Proton not to work.
• Fixed Ctrl+H triggering both show/hide hidden files and search tabs in Index.

We’ve removed the following components from the distribution.

• Hyprscreend (Shell implementation) and its settings.
• Grimshot (Shell implementation).
• Hyprlock, Wlogout, Waybar, Crystal Dock, and SwayNC.
  • 🔰 Information: Some of these removed components are available in NX AppHub for users who wish to continue using them.
• Shell script orchestration: nx-battery-notify, nx-dynamic-ppd, and nx-envycontrol.
  • NX Power Daemon and integration in Workspace Settings replaced these scripts, respectively.
• Ark, Plasma System Monitor, CoreCtrl, KGpg, and nwg-look.

Here are different ways to download our ISOs.

• ISO (cachy-nvopen) — Direct HTTP Download from our server.
  • 🔰 Information: This ISO file is specifically for NVIDIA GPUs.
• ISO (cachy-mesa) — Direct HTTP Download from our server.
  • 🔰 Information: This ISO file is specifically for AMD and Intel GPUs.

Third-party download mirrors:

• Sourceforge.

Check our documentation to verify the integrity and authenticity of the ISO file.

• Import our public key using the command below.
  • 🔰 Information: Remove the old one from your keyring before adding the new one.

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4B9AC6E0DC32598D1352A2269BADD780C10AA9DB

To see a list of known issues, click here.

To report bugs, please use our GitHub bug tracker.

Here are various articles and tutorials.

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

Here’s a list of post-release service announcements for Nitrux.

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