Bazzite, the gaming-focused Fedora Atomic desktop built by Universal Blue, has pushed its latest stable release with a fresh round of package updates and several notable under-the-hood changes. Version 43.20260210 bumps Mesa to 25.3.4, GNOME to 49.4, and Bazaar (the project's app store extension) to 0.7.7, while keeping KDE at 6.5.5 and the Nvidia driver at 590.48.01. The build rides on kernel 6.17.7 with firmware dated 2026-01-10.
The most visible additions in this cycle include a new announcement system that lets the Bazzite team push notifications to users, and an unverified image warning that alerts users when their running image fails signature checks, complete with a ujust command to fix it. A "Reset Bazzite" action now provides a straightforward way to restore factory defaults. On the GNOME side, the Bazaar extension ships enabled by default, while a VRR refresh rate monitor extension is included but disabled, available for users who want to keep an eye on variable refresh rate behavior on the desktop. The supergfxctl GNOME extension has been dropped.
Behind the scenes, the team experimented with Faugus Launcher as a potential replacement for the default non-Steam game launcher, but ultimately reverted the change after testing. The beesd (btrfs deduplication daemon) received multiple fixes to get its resource usage under control, including throttling adjustments and corrected device size rounding. Build infrastructure also saw attention, with several commits addressing disk layout changes on the project's CI builders. An iwd toggle enhancement improves captive portal integration for users who prefer Intel's wireless daemon over wpa_supplicant.
Package updates across the board bring SDL3 to 3.4.0, Tailscale to 1.94.1, Distrobox to 1.8.2.3, fwupd to 2.0.19, scx-scheds to 1.0.20, and Git to 2.53.0, among dozens of other refreshed libraries. The new bazzite-portal package (0.1.6) makes its first appearance, transitioning from a Flatpak to an RPM from the Terra repository. Existing users can rebase to this release by running bazzite-rollback-helper rebase stable or targeting the specific image with bazzite-rollback-helper rebase 43.20260210.