GUI Installer Changelogs

24.10

Features:

• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.11.1, mesa 24.2.4, scx-scheds 1.0.5, python 3.12.7

Bug Fixes:

• sddm: Pulled in newer sddm to fix wayland session logins
• ISO: Added xf86-video-amdgpu to fix graphical session loading on some setups
• chwd: Fixed reinstallation of profiles

24.09

Features:

• Packages: Optimized a bunch of packages with PGO, like LLVM, Clang, svt-av1, and nodejs. This yielded, for example, a 10% faster Clang compiler
• Repository: The repository is now synced and updated more frequently, meaning there will be even less delay. The sync interval has been decreased from every 3 hours to every hour.
• Repository: Starting from 27.09.2024, packages compiled with -fpic will automatically enable -fno-semantic-interposition. This can provide a performance improvement for many packages.
• zlib-ng: Is now used as a replacement for zlib
• sddm: On the KDE Installation, sddm will now default to Wayland as the compositor. # Provide Migration changes in release post
• cachyos-settings: NetworkManager now uses systemd-resolved as the backend, which helps with DNS caching
• cachyos-settings: Use time.google.com as the timesync server to avoid issues with timesync on some setups
• gcc: Added fixes for the tuning of znver5
• gcc: Cherry-picked patches and flags from Clear Linux
• glibc: Added “evex” patches as well as cherry-picks from Clear Linux
• wiki: The Wiki received many new additions and reworks
• chwd: Simplified device handling
• chwd: All profiles are now specifically designed for PCI devices
• chwd: Add —autoconfigure to automatically handle the driver installation
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.11.0, mesa 24.2.3, Plasma 6.1.5, NVIDIA 560.35.03, calamares 3.3.10, QT 6.7.3

Bug Fixes:

• Launch-Installer: Added fixes to sync the hardware clock before starting the installation
• calamares: Added fix for unmounting the filesystem after installation
• keyring: Clean up the keyring and recreate it before starting installation; this fixes rare keyring issues
• sysctl: Core dumps have been enabled again
• chwd: Removed libva-nvidia-driver from the PRIME profile to prevent potential conflicts and improve compatibility with software like Spectacle
• cachyos-settings: Added workaround for GNOME Wayland crashes
• cachyos-fish/zsh-config: Dropped wayland specific quirks

Changelog for Handheld Edition:

• Ally/Ally X: HHD got replaced with inputplumber, since hhd does not use the kernel driver for it correctly, which results in issues.
• Handheld related packages updated

24.08

Features:

• chwd: NVIDIA now uses the open module as default for supported cards
• Desktop: Added Cosmic Desktop Environment to the installation options
• NVIDIA: Latest 560 Beta driver is now the default; egl-wayland patched to fix crashes in Firefox and other applications
• mirrors: CDN77 sponsored CachyOS with Object Storage featuring a worldwide cache, significantly improving connection speeds for users
• mirrors: CachyOS now provides its own Arch Linux mirror to avoid syncing issues, set as default during installation along with fallback mirrors
• SecureBoot: Introduced script and tutorial in the Wiki for easy Secure Boot support
• cachy-chroot: Added auto-mount via fstab for simplified chrooting
• cachy-chroot: Implemented support for LUKS Encryption
• kernel-manager: Added support for setting sched-ext flags in the sched-ext configuration
• kernel-manager: Introduced option to build nvidia-open
• kernel-manager: Added option to remember last used options in configure page
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.10.5, mesa 24.2.0, Plasma 6.1.4, NVIDIA 560.31.02

Bug Fixes:

• chwd: Improved PRIME profile detection based on device name
• chwd: Removed RTD3 workaround due to issues on some setups
• cachyos-rate-mirrors: Disabled mirror ranking when running on Live ISO
• cachy-chroot: Fixes a crash when a partition didn’t have a valid fstype or uuid (eg Microsoft Recovery Partition)
• calamares: Refactored keyring initialization
• kernel-manager: Fixed support for building custom pkgbase with LTO kernels and modules enabled
• kernel-manager: Fixed password prompt delay
• ISO: Replaced radeon.modeset=1 with amdgpu.modeset=1 for modern GPUs
• game-performance: Prevented failure when profile is unavailable

Changelog for Handheld Edition:

• device support: Added support for Ally X, thanks to Luke Jones
• libei: Implemented support for libei, replacing libextest
• packagekit: Blocked packagekit installation to prevent issues with system updates via Discover
• hook: Added pacman-hook to conflict with natively compiled Proton versions, avoiding potential issues
• Updated jupiter-fan-control, steamdeck-dsp, and Steam Deck firmware

24.07

Features:

• Repository: Introduce Zen 4 optimized repository, this will be used for Zen4 and Zen5 CPU’s
• ISO: Add automatic architecture check for Zen4/Zen5 repository
• chwd: Added GC support for AMD GPU’s, this helps for detecting official ROCm supported GPUs
• chwd: Use libva-nvidia-driver on supported cards
• ksmctl: Introduce tool to enable/disable KSM: ksmctl —enable
• kernel: For the “linux-cachyos” kernel is now a “linux-cachyos-dbg” package available, this contains an unstripped vmlinux for debugging purposes
• kernel: amd cpb boost is now available and the power-profiles-daemon is patched, if the “powersave” profile is set, it will disable the boost on amd cpus
• kernel: Added power saving patch for AMD SoCs for video playback
• kernel-manager: Added support for managing sched-ext schedulers and getting information via GUI
• steam/proton: There is now a “game-performance” script, which can be added to steam’s launch options
• power-profiles: On AMD Pstate supported CPUs the lowest Linear frequency is now set higher, this can improve latency and 1% lows
• kwin: Added back-port for tearing, this has been tested. On NVIDIA it only works on native wayland applications
• netinstall: Cutefish has been dropped as installable Desktop Environment
• Mirrors: Added Austria and China Mirror, the China Mirror is hosted by the TUNA University. This should help a lot of users from china
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.9.9, mesa 24.1.3, NVIDIA 555.58.02, Plasma 6.1.2, LLVM 18.1.8

Bug Fixes:

• ISO: Set copytoram to auto instead of yes
• ISO: Fixed Sleep on Live ISO for Laptops
• Launch Installer: Install the latest archlinux-keyring, before the installation starts to avoid issues, when fetching the archlinux-keyring in the chroot
• Mirrors Ranking: Rank only Tier 1 Mirror’s at installation time
• pacman.conf: Remove not used pacman repository
• cachy-chroot: Do not show .snapshot subvolumes
• Calamares: Do not use “Preservefiles” module, since user a reporting issues with it.

Changelog for Handheld Edition:

• Added configuration file to apply different scaling, ‘/home/$USER/.config/deckscale
• Make GameMode switching more robust
• Updated Wifi/Bluetooth Firmware for Steam Deck
• Implemented Auto Mount for GameMode
• Added gamescope-session quirks for Wine CPU Topology, HDR, and Backlight
• Fixed Refresh Rate Selection
• Updated jupiter-hw-support, steamdeck-dsp, jupiter-fan-control, gamescope-session-git

24.06

Features:

• chwd: Introduce handheld hardware detection
• chwd: Introduce T2 MacBook support
• chwd: Add network driver detection
• Installation: Added MacBook T2 support
• ISO: Add cachy-chroot. This is a script that helps the user to chroot into the system.
• ISO: Switch to Microcode Hooks; this requires using the latest Ventoy release (1.0.98)
• ISO: Enable copytoram; this no longer needs to be disabled because we don’t provide the offline installation anymore
• filesystem: BTRFS is now the default selected file system
• netinstall: Use ufw instead of firewalld
• Calamares: Update Branding Slides
• Slides: Updated for latest changes
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.9.3, mesa 24.1.1, xwayland 24.1, NVIDIA 555.52.04, Plasma 6.0.5

Bug Fixes:

• Calamares: umount: Enable emergency again
• Qtile: Multimedia Controls are now working correctly
• NVIDIA: Enable required services and options for working sleep on Wayland
• netinstall: Remove b43-fwcutter from installation
• netinstall: Replace hyprland-git with hyprland
• netinstall: Drop linux-cachyos-lts from selection to avoid issues with missing modules
• Calamares: Shellprocess: Move mirror ranking before installing keyring

Changelog from Experimental Handheld Release:

• Default to KDE Vapor Theme (SteamOS Theme)
• Default file system: BTRFS
• Default kernel: linux-cachyos-deckify
• SDDM now uses Wayland
• Environment Flag for HHD to reduce latency
• Added Kernel Arguments to improve Game Mode Switching behavior
• The username can now be edited
• Hardware Detection configures and installs required packages depending on the device used
• Mallit Keyboard now uses Dark Mode
• Valve’s Powerbuttond for proper sleeping
• Shortcuts can now be added to Steam
• Updated scx-scheds to latest git commit, providing the latest enhancements for the LAVD Scheduler
• Added automount to cachyos-handheld
• CachyOS can now perform Steam Deck BIOS updates on the Steam Deck

24.05

Features:

• Filesystems: Introduce Bcachefs as a filesystem option
• pacstrap: Add detection if Bcachefs is used and install corresponding Bcachefs-tools
• CachyOS-AI-SDK: Introduce new install option to provide a OOB NVIDIA SDK Setup
• CachyOS-Deckify: Provide variant for Handhelds (experimental), see here for more details
• BTRFS: Automatic Snapper for snapshots, can be installed from within the CachyOS hello app.
• ISO: Drop Offline Installer
• Package Updates: Python 3.12, gcc 14.1.1, mesa 24.0.6, xwayland 24.1rc2 , NVIDIA 550.78

Bug-Fixes:

• settings.conf: Move hardware detection before netinstall
• pacstrap: Use btrfs-assistant instead of btrfs-assistant-git
• plymouth: remove plymouth hook on zfs + encryption
• ISO: Add various config files for KDE, to avoid getting screen locking during installation
• services-systemd: Properly enable fstrim.timer
• umount: Disable emergency to avoid issues with the zfs installation
• shellprocess: Cleanup leftovers from the offline installation

24.04

Features:

• Plymouth: Use plymouth to provide a themed boot animation
• ISO: Switch back to X11 due to issues when setting the keyboard layout in calamares
• rEFInd: New partitioning layout (seperate /boot and /boot/efi)
• netinstall: KDE: Install xwaylandvideobridge by default
• netinstall: Use lightdm instead of ly for various Desktop Environments, due to a bug in ly
• systemd-boot: Use @saved for systemd-boot to allow it to remember the previously selected boot entry
• cachyos-keyring: Refactor cachyos-keyring package and provide a cachyos-trusted keyring
• ISO: Use ZSTD 19 Compression for the mkinitcpio image of the ISO
• Package Updates: xz 5.6.1-3, linux-cachyos 6.8.2, pacman 6.1.0-5, mesa 24.0.4, Plasma 6.0.3, nvidia 550.67 and cachyos-settings 39-2

Bug-Fixes:

• Autologin: Fixed the autologin option when used together with sddm
• xz: Provide a patched xz package
• libarchive: Mitigate commit from malicious xz actor
• cachyos-settings: udev-rule: don’t set watermark_scale_factor to 125, since it siginificantly increases RAM usage
• calamares: pacman-keyring: Use simpler method to integrate the keyring into the installation

24.03.1

Features:

• netinstall: Remove extra kernels in the netinstall selection to avoid confusion by users. Other custom kernels can be installed via Kernel Manager
• Kernel Manager: NVIDIA Modules are automatically installed when detected, Rebased for QT6, Fixed custom names when using LTO Option
• Package Installer: Rebased on QT6, updated for pacman 6.1
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.8.1, pacman 6.1, mesa 24.0.3, Plasma 6.0.2, llvm 17.0.6

Bug-Fixes:

• NVIDIA: patched nvidia module to take the owner ship of nvidia.drm.modeset earlier to avoid issues on nvidia graphics
• Refind: Don’t install the lts kernel to avoid issues
• shellprocess: Remove the liveusers directory completly

24.03

Features:

• ISO: Plasma 6 is now shipped in the ISO and uses Wayland as default, GNOME ISO got dropped to avoid confusion about netinstall
• Calamares: Rebased for QT6
• refind: Add f2fs and zfs as option including luks2 encryption
• mirrors: We provide now 2 global CDNs. One hosted by Cloudflare R2 and one hosted by Digital Ocean
• mirrorlist: Fetch the online installer directly from cdn to provide a faster delivery
• initcpiocfg: Use the new microcode hook for early loading the ucode
• bootloader: Dont load the microcode with the bootloader anymore
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.7.9, mesa 24.0.2, zfs-utils 2.2.3

Bug-Fixes:

• pacstrap: Do not install config packages to provide the user a more clean selection of the installation
• shellprocess_pacman: Also copy the ranked cachyos-v4-mirrorlists to the target

24.02

Features:

• refind: Change layout from /boot/efi to /boot to provide more options of filesystems and encryption
• Live-ISO: Cleanup and Sync the Live-ISO
• Launch Installer: Add recommendation for the online installation
• shell-configs: Add option to disable fastfetch when starting the terminal and add an “update” alias
• netinstall: Add phonon-qt5-vlc to kde
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.7.5, mesa 23.3.5, gcc 13.2.1-12, glibc 2.39, mesa 24.0.1, nvidia 550.54.14

24.01

Features:

• x86-64-v4: Autodetection and enabling the repository at installation
• linux-cachyos: the sched-ext scheduler framework is now provided in the default kernel
• xwayland: Provide explicit sync patches as default
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.7, mesa 23.3.3, gcc 13.2.1-8, xorg-xwayland 23.2.4

Bug Fixes:

• chwd: For Ada Lovelace Nvidia cards the nvidia modules get directly packed into the initramfs to avoid issues with the early kms

23.12

Bug-fixes:

• zfs: Add compatibility=grub to the pool options to ensure the compatibility
• grub/xfs: Add a patch to grub to have compatibility with the new xfs bigtime default
• netinstall: xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland instead of xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland-git

23.11

Features:

• nvidia: Use nvidia module instead of dkms
• Calamares synced with upstream
• Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.6.1, nvidia-utils 545.29.02, mesa 23.2.1, zfs-utils 2.2.0, mkinitcpio 37

Bug-fixes:

• nvidia-hook: Added nvidia-hook back to avoid issues at installation time with the new module
• netinstall: Packages got renamed due the recent changes at the KF5 packaging
• netinstall: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome got added to the GNOME Installation

23.09

Features:

• systemd-boot: Default to luks2
• netinstall: Provide a own category for CachyOS Packages
• Calamares synced with upstream
• Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.5.3, nvidia-utils 535.104.05, mesa 23.2.7

Bug-fixes:

• shellprocess_sdboot: Avoid using “sudo”, when generating the boot entries at the installation process

23.08

Features:

• Calamares synced with upstream
• Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.4.10, nvidia-utils 535.98

Bug-fixes:

• Keyring got updated and works now correctly

23.07

Features:

• CachyOS-Settings includes now “bpftune”, which automatically tweaks the network settings depending on the usage
• CachyOS-Qtile-Settings: Quality of Life changes, better icons, …
• Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.4.2, cachy-browser 115.0.1, mesa 23.1.3,

Bug-fixes:

• rate-mirrors got fixed
• chwd (Hardware Detection) got multiple fixes
• fixed installation of nonfree drivers for hybrid setup in the installer
• fixed Calamares freezes, which happened in some rare configurations, mainly VM
• Slides: Slide 6 typo fix

23.06

Bug-fixes:

• Offline Installation: Fix calamares

23.05

Features:

• CachyOS Git Migration layout is now reflected in the installation
• chwd (mhwd) got multiple fixes
• Pacman: We added a feature, which makes it possible to provide a message to our users before updating
• Calamares got synced with upstream
• Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.3.4, cachy-browser 113.0.1, mesa 23.1.1, python 3.11

Bug-fixes:

• netinstall: minimal fixes due package changes
• Slides: Slide 6 got updated to reflect the lastest chang

23.04

Features:

• Introduce the Qtile desktop enviroment
• Reworked mhwd: Rust rewrite; Simplified profiles for GPUs and network cards; Removed bunch of ancient code
• Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.2.12, cachy-browser 112.0.1, mesa 23.0.3, zfs-utils 2.1.11

Bug-fixes:

• f2fs: Remove “atgc” mount options since it has issues with systemd

23.03.1

Features:

• Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.2.7, cachy-browser 111.0

Bug-fixes:

• Calamares got fixed with the lightdm displaymanager due faulty calamares upstream commits
• Offline installation keyring issue got fixed
• Refind: Use linux-cachyos-lts as defaullt. Current 6.2 seems not to work well together with refind

23.03

New Features:

• Added the refind bootloader
• Automatic Nvidia driver installation using MHWD
• Encryption support for ZFS installation
• Added Hyprland to netinstallation
• CachyOS-KDE-Settings now uses the KDE default theme, but the CachyOS Themes are still preinstalled and available for use
• Package updates: linux-cachyos 6.2.2, mesa 23.0.0, cachy-browser 110.0.1, plasma 5.27.2
• Fully reworked and improved the bootloader calamares module
• The ISO gets now signed with a GPG key
• MHWD got improved and updated
• Synced Calamares with upstream

Bug-fixes:

• The “replace partition” option now offers a filesystem selection
• Fixed a typo in slide 3
• nouveau got fixed and does now proper load the module
• MHWD: Use modesetting for INTEL/ATI and Nouveau
• Removed the zfs hook from mkinitcpio on the live iso, which caused issues when booting
• You can download the update from our mirrors on SourceForge.

23.02

New Features:

• The cachyos-community-v3 repo has been added
• Budgie, Mate, and LXDE desktop environments have been added to the Netinstallation
• Bluetooth.service is now enabled by default
• F2FS and grub are enabled and working again
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.1.10, mesa 22.3.4, zfs-utils 2.1.9, glibc 2.37, cachy-browser 109.0.1

Bug-fixes:

• Rate-mirrors now fall back to unranked mirrors if it fails to rate them
• cachyos-rate-mirrors has a longer fetch-mirrors-timeout
• Github has been added to the hosts to avoid mirrorlist issues
• Boot entries for BIOS have been updated in syslinux

23.01

Features:

• Calamares Slides got reworked and updated
• UKUI Desktop Enviroment got added to the Netinstallation
• Cinnamon Desktop Enviroment got added to the Netinstallation
• Cmdline: zswap is now disabled as default because CachyOS provides zram as default
• Calamares updated to the latest commit
• LLVM 15 is now shipped as default
• Package Updates: linux-cachyos 6.1.7, mesa 22.3.3, Plasma 5.26.5, llvm 15.0.7, gcc 12.1.1, binutils 2.40, zfs-utils 2.1.8, nvidia 525.85.05
• CLI Installer got updated

Bug-fixes:

• remove-ucode shellprocess does also run now at the offline installation
• pamac got removed from the netinstall
• The ranked cachyos mirrors gets now correctly copied to the install target
• power-profile-daemon don’t gets enabled anymore as default

22.12

Features:

• New GRUB background at the ISO bootloader
• memtest is now included for UEFI Systems
• CachyOS-sddm-theme got added to the KDE Installation
• Automatic version script added when creating the ISO
• Calamares updated to the latest commit
• The mirrors are now ranked with “cachyos-rate-mirros”, which ranks our mirrors and the arch ones
• Packages Update: 6.1.1 Kernel, mesa 22.3.1, plasma 5.26.4,…
• The Kofuku Desktop Enviroment got removed
• extra ISO with llvm 15 included to provide support for newer AMD Cards

Bug-fixes:

• Calamares got fixed when using GNOME as ISO
• zfshostid does now work proper for the offline and online installation
• Add “kms” hook to the initcpiocfg module to follow archlinux defaults
• And more ISO fixes

22.11

Features:

• Calamares and its config are shipped in one package
• Complete Cleanup of the packages in the netinstall
• Add a module which automatically removes the not needed ucode
• required RAM decreased to 2.5GB
• Packages which are required for btrfs, are now only installed for btrfs
• Calamares updated to the latest commit
• The ISO Bootloader has now a background
• Common package upgrades (mesa, kernel, …)
• Replace systemd-network with networkmanager

Bug-fixes:

• qemu-quest-agent.service got removed from the ISO
• copytoram got completly disabled, it breaks the offline installation
• mkinitcpio.conf got updated
• And more ISO fixes

22.10

Features:

• Pacman uses now Architecture=auto for x86-64-v3 installation, since we added a patch that pacman does autodetect x86-64-v3
• Pacman does show now, from which repo a package was installed
• Bootloader selection auto detect if EFI is present, if not it will default to grub
• Swap choice has been disabled now as default, since zram gets automatically dynamically generated
• Calamares updated to the latest commit
• Minimum RAM requirement has been set to 4GB
• cachyos-grub-theme got removed

Bug-fixes:

• SSD and hdd fstab detection has been disabled until there is a upstream fix
• double BTRFS subvolume has been fixed
• Added missing microcode to the ISO grub bootloader
• Added a fallback bootmode, which does not set any modeset (nomodeset)
• And more ISO fixes

22.09

Features:

• Calamares is now on the latest 3.3 branch. Its brings bugfixes and new features to calamares
• TUI-Installer is now included in the GUI ISO, you can use it with “cachyos-installer”
• Calamares does now auto detect, if the target filesystem is a ssd or hdd and adjust to it the fstab options
• Nvidia for latest gpu’s (starting at 9xx) has now a own boot entry, to avoid issues with nouveau
• fstab and zfs mount options got updated
• FireFox won’t be installed as default anymore since cachy-browser is installed as default

Bug-fixes:

• cachyos-gaming-meta has been removed from the netinstall module to avoid issues at the installation process
• netinstall packages has been updated and got some fixes
• OpenBox installation has been fixed
• usual translation fixes

22.07

Features:

• Boot-loader selection: User can now choose on the online installation between grub and systemd-boot
• At online installation will now always the newest calamares installed, which helps to do bug fixes on the “air”
• Calamares has now a mhwd module which automatically installs the needed drivers (free drivers)
• Calamares has new picture slides at the installation
• fstab and zfs mount options got updated
• HiDPI support

Bug-fixes:

• The locales bug in calamares got fixed
• F2FS has been removed for the grub boot loader since it is currently not working (calamares issue), it can be still with systemd-boot used
• Calamares shows now the correct default filesystem
• Gnome ISO got fixed
• Missing packages at the live ISO has been added for the offline installation
• btrfs swap luksencryption got fixed
• usual translation fixes

22.06

Following known bugs has been fixed:

• Install failed when a generic CPU was used
• KDE did automatically mount zfs paritions which resulted that the auto login into the ISO did not worked anymore

Improvements:

• The firewall from the server has been corrected, cloudflare did blocked users as “bots”, which resulted then into a error at installing
• Added theming support for Gnome, XFCE, OpenBox
• Updated our wiki

CachyOS - Kernel - Manager Also we are excited to announce our CachyOS-Kernel-Manager. Their you have the possibility to install the kernel from the repo and also configure with a GUI your own kernel build which makes is very easy to customize it to his own suits.

Following options you can select for a kernel compile:

• Scheduler (BMQ, BORE, cacULE, cfs, PDS, TT)
• NUMA disabled or enabled
• KBUILD CFLAGS (-O3 or -O2)
• Set performance governor as default
• Enable BBR2
• Tickrate (500Hz, 600Hz, 750Hz, 1000Hz)
• tickless (idle, perodic, full)
• disable MQ-Deadline I/O Scheduler
• disable Kyber I/O Scheduler
• Enable or disable MG-LRU
• Enable or disable DAMON
• Enable or disable Speculative page fault
• Enable or disable LRNG (Linux Random Number Generator)
• Apply Kernel automatic Optimization (Does automatically detect your CPU March)
• Apply Kernel Optimization slecting (You will see a list of different CPU-Marches and can select with a number yours)
• Disable debug (it lowers the size of the kernel)
• Enable or disable nf cone
• Enable LTO (Full, Thin, No)

22.05

CachyOS was founded a year ago. After almost one year of development, we are really proud to announce our first Stable Release of GUI Installer. We spent a lot of time investigating repo management, kernel development, infrastructure, theming, … and finally put them all into the CachyOS GUI Installer. All the features we worked on and implemented into the Installer are just trying to offer users a completely customizable experience.

The most exciting changes are that we use now for the online install pacstrap which provide then a complete clear installed environment and we do support a complete native support for the zfs filesystem

Since Discord restrict the length of the messages the full announcement can be found here:

https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/cachyos-gui-installer-changelog/

Download can be found here: https://mirror.cachyos.org/ISO/kde/220522/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/cachyos-arch/