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CachyOS ISO Release for August 2026 Improves the Installer, Desktop Profiles

posted by Marius Nestor on Aug 09, 2026,
updated Aug 15, 2026

Still powered by the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series, the CachyOS ISO snapshot for August 2026 ships with the latest KDE Plasma 6.7.4 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the KDE Frameworks 6.28 and KDE Gear 26.04.3 software suites, all compiled against Qt 6.11.1.

The CachyOS ISO snapshot for August 2026 looks like a small update that updates the CachyOS Hyprland Noctalia installer option to use the noctalia-greeter login screen instead of SDDM, updates the Cinnamon desktop option to use lightdm-slick-greeter instead of lightdm-gtk-greeter, adds gvfs-dnssd to the GNOME desktop option, and adds COSMIC Monitor to the COSMIC desktop option.

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CachyOS Gets an Update

If you've not heard of CachyOS, then you've not been paying attention. This blazingly fast Arch-based distribution has quickly risen to the top of so many lists; it's sure to find itself winning prom queen and president of its class this year.

With this new release (which happens to be the fifth this year), CachyOS gets a good amount of polish, some of it by way of the latest versions of various packages, such as KDE Plasma 6.7.4, KDE Frameworks 6.28, and KDE Gear 26.04.3.

Of course, it's not all just about KDE Plasma. The CachyOS installer received a ton of love as well. For instance, the command-line installer now includes experimental support for the soon-to-be-added Server Edition installation profiles. The GUI installer received several desktop-specific changes, such as Hyprland now using noctalia-greeter, switching to lightdm-slick-greeter for Cinnamon, and adding gvfs-dnssd for the Gnome desktop.

As far as the beauty contest goes, the dev team added new Noctalia variants for both Mango and Niri. As well, Noctalia v5 now supports Hyprland dotfiles. Finally, they've updated the Nord KDE theme for Plasma 6.7.

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