Bazzite has pushed its latest stable release, version 43.20260217, bringing a notable stack of component upgrades and fixes to the gaming-focused Linux distribution. The update ships Mesa 26.0.0, kernel 6.17.7-ba25, GNOME 49.4, and KDE 6.5.5, alongside fresh Nvidia drivers at version 590.48.01 for the current branch and 580.95.05 for the LTS track.
One of the more technically interesting changes in this release is a workaround for Nvidia's HDR support. The commit message is candid: the team manually extracts VK_hdr_layer from its RPM and copies the contents into the correct location, describing it as "an awful hack" that keeps HDR functionality present while waiting for Nvidia to support the modern standard. Also notable is the live ISO getting a Conky overlay that displays critical build info at all times, and migration to the experimental Titanoboa installer framework.
On the gaming tooling side, Lutris jumps from 0.5.19 to 0.5.20 with a config cleanup, xrandr is added as a dependency for Steam Tinker Launcher compatibility, and evtest is now installed by default for input device diagnostics. The Sunshine game streaming server also received an update. Other package updates include OpenXR 1.1.57, SDL3_image 3.4.0 on KDE images, rom-properties 2.7.1 (now with a GTK4 build for GNOME, replacing the GTK3 version), and a bump to Tailscale 1.94.2.
