Bazzite, the Fedora-based Linux distribution optimized for gaming and home theater PCs, released version 43.20260212 on 2026-02-12 with a substantial graphics stack upgrade. The update brings Mesa 26.0.0, a jump from version 25.3.4, alongside kernel 6.17.7 and firmware dated 2026-01-10. The distribution also includes updated Nvidia drivers with version 590.48.01 for current hardware and 580.95.05 for long-term support cards.
The release includes several fixes for Sunshine, the open-source game streaming software, with multiple commits switching to the new sunshine-kms.service and adding proper service overrides. Desktop environment users get GNOME 49.4 and KDE Plasma 6.5.5, while the Gamescope compositor sits at build ba147. The Bazaar application manager received a minor version bump from 0.7.7 to 0.7.8.
Under the hood, Bazzite updated systemd to version 258.4, gnutls to 3.8.12, and greenboot to 0.16.2. The distribution also refreshed its video codec libraries with LCEVCdec 4.0.5 and updated gstreamer plugins. Current Bazzite users can rebase to this version using the command bazzite-rollback-helper rebase stable or target the specific image with bazzite-rollback-helper rebase 43.20260212.
