Bazzite has pushed a point release to its stable branch, bringing version 44.20260928.1 with a stack of updated packages across its gaming-focused Fedora Atomic images. The headline components include Linux kernel 7.2.7 on the primary track (with a 6.18.52 LTS kernel for Nvidia systems), Mesa 26.2.2 for graphics, and Nvidia's open driver at version 615.71.09 alongside the 580.178.04 LTS branch. For handheld and console-style setups, Gamescope moves to 3.16.29, InputPlumber hits 0.81.0, and OpenGamepadUI reaches 0.46.1.
Desktop users get GNOME 50.4 and KDE Plasma 6.7.5, while the container and compatibility layers see Distrobox at 1.8.2.5, Waydroid at 1.6.3, and UMU Launcher at 1.4.4. MangoHUD 0.8.4 rounds out the performance overlay tooling, and Bazaar, Bazzite's built-in app store layer, sits at 0.9.3.
The release itself is a minor revision over 44.20260928, with the primary code change being the removal of a stray desktop shortcut for the msedit TUI application that slipped past the project's policy of hiding terminal app launchers. Existing users can rebase to the new image by running bazzite-rollback-helper rebase stable or targeting the specific version tag directly.
