Bazzite, the SteamOS-like Linux distribution built on Fedora, has released version unstable-43.20260324.1 with significant changes to its package lineup. The update removes QEMU virtualization and ROCm GPU compute packages from the base system, moving these tools to the Bazzite-DX developer variant or recommending users install them via Distrobox or Flatpak instead.
The release adds Intel OpenCL support through the intel-opencl package (version 25.48.36300.8-3), bringing GPU compute capabilities to Intel integrated graphics users. This addition includes supporting libraries like intel-igc, intel-opencl-clang, and various LLVM and SPIRV components needed for OpenCL functionality on Intel hardware.
Other updates include Linux kernel 6.19.8-200.ogc, Mesa 26.0.3-1, Gamescope 136, and updated Nvidia drivers with the open kernel modules at version 595.45.04-4 and the LTS branch at 580.142-1. Desktop environments remain current with GNOME 49.6-1 and KDE 6.6.3-1. The gamescope-session-steam package on Deck images received an update to version 0~20260314git.d9412bf-2.
The removed packages total over 50 virtualization-related components including libvirt, various firmware blobs (SLOF, seabios-bin, edk2-aarch64), and storage management tools. Current Bazzite users can rebase to this version using the bazzite-rollback-helper rebase unstable command.
