Bazzite, the gaming-focused Linux distribution, has released version 43.20260404 with updated core components and numerous fixes. The release brings Linux kernel 6.17.7, Mesa 26.0.3, and GNOME 49.6 alongside KDE 6.6.3 for desktop environments.
The update includes Nvidia driver 595.58.03 for current GPUs and LTS driver 580.95.05 for older hardware. Gaming infrastructure receives attention with Gamescope ba148 and updated firmware dated 2026-03-09. Notable package updates include Sunshine streaming software (2026.403.124357), GTK 4.20.4, and Perl 5.42.2 across 80 component updates.
This release focuses heavily on the Bazaar package manager integration, adding hooks for JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio Code, and VSCodium with multilingual warning dialogs in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Russian. System improvements include switching from sudo to pkexec for privilege escalation, fixes for Intel GTK rendering issues, and proper systemd daemon reloads. The team also resolved an SDDM autologin bug affecting non-deck images and disabled a problematic iSCSI NetworkManager dispatch script that triggered SELinux warnings.
Users can rebase to this version using the command bazzite-rollback-helper rebase stable or target the specific release with bazzite-rollback-helper rebase 43.20260404. The distribution removed Rustup from the default package set while adding improved live ISO installation warnings and error handling.
