Bazzite stable build 44.20261012 ships kernel 7.2.9-ogc2.1, up from 7.2.8-ogc5.1, alongside an updated Nvidia open driver (615.78.08) and InputPlumber 0.82.0 for gamepad input handling. The Nvidia LTS kernel track holds at 6.18.52, and Mesa remains at 26.2.4 with Gamescope at 3.16.31.
The Bazzite Portal picks up two practical additions: an OpenGamepadUI toggle with recipe status support, and an option to start SSH for the current session. A fix for the Steam dummy updater now limits it to first launch only, and the KDE variant gets a GTK 4 window corner radius fix so app windows match the desktop shell again. The build also enforces proper steamos-manager defaults for desktop session and login mode on Deck images, and removes autologin overrides from non-Deck images.
Under the hood, the project has switched to Terra packages for xorg, upower, and vpower, replacing previously maintained forks. Several packages see routine bumps, including SDL3 (3.4.18), Flatpak (1.18.4), Tailscale (1.104.1), rpm-ostree (2026.3), and Git (2.56.0). The displaylink and ayaneo-leds packages have been dropped from this build. Existing users can rebase with bazzite-rollback-helper rebase 44.20261012 or target the latest stable with bazzite-rollback-helper rebase stable.
