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RakuOS Linux 44 2026.06.02 Release Notes Origami Linux Merge

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Highlights

This release marks the merger of Origami Linux into RakuOS, bringing both communities together under one stronger atomic Fedora-based distribution. With this release we're also shipping the Origami Paper theme across all desktop editions and a major overhaul of theming, tooling, and the update experience.

Migrating to Quay.io — Action Required for Existing Users

RakuOS images have moved from the GitLab container registry to Quay.io. All editions are now available at quay.io/rakuos/.

Step 1 — Allow Quay.io in your current policy:

sudo sed -i '/"docker": {/a\      "quay.io\/rakuos": [{"type": "insecureAcceptAnything"}],' /etc/containers/policy.json

Step 2 — Switch to your edition on Quay.io:

GNOME: bootc switch quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-gnome:latest

KDE: bootc switch quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-kde:latest

COSMIC: bootc switch quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-cosmic:latest

GNOME (NVIDIA): bootc switch quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-gnome-nvidia:latest

KDE (NVIDIA): bootc switch quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-kde-nvidia:latest

COSMIC (NVIDIA): bootc switch quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-cosmic-nvidia:latest

Step 3 — Reboot, then enable image verification:

After rebooting, run this to enforce Sigstore signature verification for all future updates:

sudo sed -i 's|"quay.io/rakuos": \[{"type": "insecureAcceptAnything"}\],|"quay.io/rakuos": [{"type": "sigstoreSigned", "keyPath": "/etc/pki/containers/rakuos-cosign.pub", "signedIdentity": {"type": "matchRepository"}}],|' /etc/containers/policy.json

All future updates will now be verified with our signing keys. You only need to do this once.

System & Base Image

  • Image signing All RakuOS images are on Quay.io and are now cosign-signed. bootc upgrade verifies signatures before applying updates
  • Quay.io migration Images moved from GitLab registry to quay.io/rakuos/ for better reliability and due to some changes on gitlab.
  • Chunkah layer optimization Images are built with chunkah to prune and repack OSTree layers before pushing, resulting in smaller, more efficient image diffs and faster bootc upgrade downloads
  • zstd:chunked compression Faster, more efficient delta updates

New Look Icons, Cursor, Wallpaper & Fonts

  • WhiteSur icon theme sleek macOS-inspired icon set shipped across all editions
  • Bibata cursor theme modern, clean cursor theme
  • New RakuOS wallpaper custom wallpaper replacing Fedora defaults
  • Maple Mono fonts new default monospace font
  • Inter (rsms-inter) clean sans-serif UI font
  • Full Noto CJK & script support Noto Sans CJK, Balinese, Javanese, Myanmar, Sundanese and more for broad language coverage
  • Custom RakuOS fastfetch preset RakuOS ASCII art and system info theme

Theming Origami Paper

  • Origami Paper theme ported to all editions (GNOME, KDE, COSMIC)
  • Libadwaita color scheme support added GNOME apps respect the RakuOS theme correctly
  • GTK theme watcher automatically re-applies RakuOS theming when the GTK theme changes, keeping things consistent
  • Icon theme preserved Icon theme is kept in sync when the GTK theme changes

New Base Image Packages

  • btop, htop, nvtop system and GPU monitoring
  • bat, bat-extras, lsd, dust, dysk, procs, ripgrep, fzf, zoxide modern CLI replacements
  • lazygit terminal Git UI
  • fish, zsh, starship, zellij, tmux shell and terminal tools
  • distrobox run other Linux distros in containers
  • cava, cbonsai, cowsay, lolcat, figlet, termflix terminal eye candy
  • surge, bore-sysctl, dmemcg-booster system performance tuning
  • opendoas, sudo-rs alternative privilege escalation tools
  • solaar-udev, openrgb-udev-rules, oversteer-udev, ratbagd gaming peripheral support
  • wireguard-tools VPN support
  • pam-u2f, pamu2fcfg, pam_yubico, yubikey-manager hardware security key support
  • aria2, rsync download and sync tools
  • podman, podman-compose container tooling
  • libcamera + GStreamer integration camera support
  • libimobiledevice-utils iOS device support
  • virtualbox-guest-additions VM guest support
  • just command runner

KDE (Plasma 6.6)

  • All core KDE apps moved into the image leaning fully into the atomic model; the default overlay contains only Firefox
  • SCX scheduler manager moved into the base image better CPU scheduling out of the box
  • Origami Paper theme available on KDE

COSMIC (1.0.14)

  • All core COSMIC apps moved into the image leaning fully into the atomic model; the default overlay contains only Firefox
  • New extension apps cosmic-ext-applet-clipboard-manager, cosmic-ext-applet-logomenu, cosmic-ext-applet-sysinfo, cosmic-ext-applet-flux, cosmic-ext-calculator, cosmic-ext-camera, cosmic-ext-noctua, cosmic-ext-storage, cosmic-ext-tasks, cosmic-ext-xcalendar
  • New core apps cosmic-player (media player), cosmic-reader (document reader)
  • SCX scheduler manager moved into the image better CPU scheduling out of the box
  • cosmic-flux-daemon user service enabled by default
  • Welcome app streamlined cleaner first-run experience
  • Screen reader defaults to off on the accessibility setup page
  • Origami Paper theme available on COSMIC

GNOME (GNOME 50)

  • All core GNOME apps moved into the image leaning fully into the atomic model; the default overlay contains only Firefox
  • GNOME theming overhauled improved theme application across GTK3/4 and native apps
  • Origami Paper + Libadwaita color scheme applied consistently and nothing is applied that could break gtk apps

Welcome App

  • GTK, Qt and COSMIC welcome apps overhauled major UI improvements across all setup pages
  • Keyboard, language, and location pages added
  • Prevents cosmic-initial-setup from running alongside the RakuOS welcome on COSMIC
  • Icon loading fixed resolves correctly from appstream cache
  • pkexec removed from app install flow
  • Screen reader defaults to off

RakuOS Software Center

  • Quay.io update checks with fallback for reliable update detection
  • bootc update/switch flow completely overhauled more reliable, using a one shot systemd unit
  • Flatpak update fixes and GTK app search improvements
  • Background daemon sends desktop notifications when updates complete
  • Custom kernel argument management

RakuOS CLI

  • rakuos upgrade new all-in-one command: updates overlay packages, upgrades Flatpaks, then upgrades the system image
  • rakuos shell switch your login shell between fish, bash, and zsh
  • rakuos enroll-secureboot-key enroll the RakuOS Secure Boot MOK key
  • Flatpak migration fix users rebasing from another distro no longer lose their installed Flatpaks
  • Sudoers permissions always set correctly on first boot
  • Quay.io digest checking update detection compares actual image digests

Virtual Camera Support (v4l2loopback)

The v4l2loopback kernel module is now included out of the box, enabling virtual camera support across all editions.

This allows applications such as OBS Studio to use the Virtual Camera feature, letting you pipe your stream/scene output into video conferencing apps like Discord, Google Meet, Zoom, and others as a camera source no manual driver installation required.

Overlay Changes

  • Overlay is minimal by default Firefox is the only pre-installed overlay package. Current RakuOS users may need to run sudo rakuos reset-overlay --confirm or factory reset from RakuOS Software before rebooting to apply update

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