Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 6.1 as the latest stable ISO snapshot of this immutable, systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution featuring the Hyprland dynamic tiling Wayland compositor.

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.0 kernel series, patched against the Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, Fragnesia, and ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerabilities, and featuring CachyOS patches, Nitrux 6.1 ships with Hyprland 0.55.1 featuring Lua-based configuration, the Vicinae Raycast-inspired focused launcher, and updates to Waybar, Hyprlock, and Wlogout.

Nitrux 6.1 also ships with the latest MauiKit, MauiKit Frameworks, and Maui Apps 4.0.3, NX AppHub CLI 1.2.1 with support for Debian snapshots when building bundles and standardize hyphenated YAML keys, and an updated OpenRC init system that can now handle overlay remount failures without blocking boot.

New components have been added in this release, including dmemcg-booster, a fork of Valve’s dmemcg-booster daemon adapted to target OpenRC environments, KDE Partition Manager disk partitioning tool, and Fatresize, a command-line tool for non-destructive resizing of FAT16/FAT32 partitions.

On top of that, Nitrux 6.1 ships with PAM support for Universal 2nd Factor (U2F), a HID-BPF loader based on udev events, YubiKey two-factor authentication support for LUKS encrypted disks, Meslo Nerd Mono and Meslo Nerd fonts, and RealtimeKit, a D-Bus system service that changes the scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR on request.

Among other changes, Nitrux 6.1 includes the KDE Gear 26.04.1 software suite, NVIDIA 595.71.05 graphics driver, Calamares 3.4.2 graphical installer, updated ZSH and QMLGreet configurations, updated NX Dynamic PPD to set the screen brightness based on the active power profile, and various bug fixes.

Check out the release announcement for more details about the changes included in Nitrux 6.1, which is available for download from the same page as live ISO images for Intel/AMD (Mesa) and NVIDIA systems. Of course, existing Nitrux 6.0 users will be able to update their installations using the Nitrux Update Tool System tool.

Source: 9to5Linux