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Tuesday, 27 October 2026 00:00 UTC – Wednesday, 28 October 2026 06:00 UTC
Release candidate 4.5.0-rc2 introduces an F1 installer
The notes for version 4.5.0-rc2 say this candidate is not a final release, and they describe an F1 installer that unpacks a prebuilt root instead of installing about 940 packages one by one. The picture is from the Omarchy post.
Read the story →Omacom Foundation hires HANCORE as head of design and community
The Omacom Foundation is hiring HANCORE as head of design and community, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote in an Omarchy news post. The post says he is moving from Omarchy AIR to join full time, as the fourth staff member.
Scroll capture drops the screen-share exclusion that painted the overlay black
A change merged into quattro drops the screen-share exclusion that painted Omasnap's scroll overlay black, so a scrolling capture was coming out solid black.
An agents panel section needs a subscription
A change merged into quattro shows an agents panel section only when there is something subscription-shaped to show: limits, a balance, a plan, or accounts.
About box age counts from the install
A change merged into quattro counts the About box's OS Age from the install. The pull request says that since 4.5 the root is born when the ISO was built, so the age was too old by the ISO's age.
The yt-dlp download toast offers Open and Cut
A change merged into quattro puts Open and Cut on the toast for a finished yt-dlp download. Open plays the video in mpv, and Cut opens it in Omacut, the same as the screen recording toast.
The bar clock stays still for every button
A change merged into quattro keeps the bar clock's label still for every mouse button. An earlier change merged into quattro had left the press animation on left and middle clicks.