CachyOS August 2025 Release Changelog

Thanks for reporting. Its indeed an issue, which has been introduced in this commit:

Crazy, that this was not noticed since 3 months. anyways, ill work on it and push the new ISO

Compilation running now and we will push it to the repository in 2-3 hours. Sorry guys.

Hey all,

The ISO is now up and the Website updated.

Upload to Sourceforge and Torrent are going on. You can download it from here:
https://cdn77.cachyos.org/ISO/desktop/250825/cachyos-desktop-linux-250825.iso

Vielen Dank für die viele Arbeit und Zeit, die ihr dafür investiert, damit wir diese wunderbare Distribution nutzen können.

Thanks for the update, but I still haven’t been able to install the latest version. I get this error message at the end of the installation? It would be good to keep the old versions so we can go back to the ones that worked well on our PCs.

Provide the log please.

How can I provide you with the log if the installation didn’t complete? I just get a black screen? Thanks

I’m reinstalling it to see if I can send the log ?..here’s what I noticed during the installation too !

Hey everyone, its my first post, so, hello from ZA, just want to let ya know, using ventoy with ISOs, yeah the 240825 image i downloaded like this morning, then said to me 250825 is out, so know I can confirm I too had a no boot AFTER installing on my nvme drive using ai refind, and custom 2048gb fat32 as /boot with flags, etc etc, and just kept coming to usb boot , without the flash it would not boot… so am now busy with latest version and at 50 %using same setup as i did the last 10 installs, with same ai refind and that new desktop, will report if it works ok after the install reboot. up till now, what a f3(ck1ng good OS!!! well done and keep up the awesome work…G

im cursed, sitting actually at 40%
term is at 2025-08-25 - 21:28:00 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: “Pretty name: Install packages., setting progress..”
2025-08-25 - 21:28:00 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
2025-08-25 - 21:28:00 [6]: Starting job “Installing needed drivers for CachyOS…” ( 28 / 51 )
2025-08-25 - 21:28:00 [6]: .. Running QList(“/bin/sh”, “-c”, “/etc/calamares/scripts/install-ai-sdk”)… and waiting since last post…


just ended, reboot, hold thumbs…

no joy, trying refind next, doesnt find boot, or its empty, then will try grub/systemd,

I have been liking the NTsync change recently, been testing for the past few weeks.

I’m using the Deckify version of cachy on an rog ally x. After this last update the ally now base 2 control schemes. Before it read all controls as Xbox elite 2. Now itt has official rog ally controller but it is missing boh menu buttons.

System updates (or perceived problems with them) are not related to the recent ISO release.

On a rolling-release system like Arch/Cachy such releases are pertinent only to what is contained in the installation media.

There is not “Cachy version” you upgrade to - you are simply either up to date or not.

If you are having some sort of issue then please open a thread including relevant details.

@Delmata you’d better create a new topic in “Issues&Assistance” to ask for help, this here is not the right place to discuss issues.

i appreciate ntsync being added for proton looking forward to wine packages supporting this as well. Love xess support being added still have a forum open concerning xe drivers. While dg2 can be forced to use the xe driver instead of the i915. My uhd is also on the compatibility matrix as supported, but cant get both to run on the xe driver. I been working on this for the reasons of deeplink which is supported despite many people beleifs via the linux kernel and the intel one api basekit

Wow, that is pretty complicated to read. Maybe try to hit a comma, full-stop, SHIFT or ENTER key every now again :wink:

The steam overlay and steam recording does not work with the new proton-cachyos

If I understand correctly, changes like:

  • LTS kernel falback
  • GRUB bootable snapshots
  • NVIDIA S0ix sleep

are enabled for existing users by pacman -Syu ?