winesapOS/winesapOS 4.6.0

4.6.0 - The RAMpocalypse Update

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Want to help support our work? Help out by opening or addressing open feature and bug GitHub Issues. Our CONTRIBUTING.md guide provides all of the information you need to get started as a winesapOS contributor.

The full read me file for winesapOS can be found here.

Getting started instructions and system requirements can be found here.

Built using the archlinux-2026.08.01-x86_64.iso ISO.

Feature highlights:

• Installer
  • Our oldest and most requested feature has finally been added: a Calamares installer!
  • Do you only have one good internal drive? You can now dual-boot more easily than ever.
  • It can also be used to install winesapOS to the entire drive.
  • The secure image supports LUKS encryption for the internal drive.
  • Our old dual-boot installer has been removed entirely.
• Image types have been consolidated
  • Releases will only ship the minimal image now.
  • exFAT cross-platform storage, previously exclusive to other image types, can now be created on first boot with the minimal image.
  • Using the first-time setup recommended defaults will create a 16 GiB exFAT partition.
  • The reason is for simplicity and lowering storage requirements.
• Triple the RAM
  • By default, since winesapOS 4.2.0, we already double your RAM with zram and lz4 compression.
  • Now there is an option in the first-time setup to triple your RAM with zram and zstd compression.
  • There is a performance trade-off using zstd instead of lz4.
  • Skeptical?
    • View benchmarks and sources here.
    • Try winesapOS for yourself on a spare drive.
  • This was added to help deal with the RAMpocalypse.
• Optimize VRAM Usage with dmesg-booster
  • More VRAM is allocated to games now.
  • It is configured to work in KDE Plasma and Gamescope sessions.
  • This was also added to help deal with the RAMpocalypse.
• VirtIO-GPU Venus support
  • Use QEMU/KVM to run a virtual machine with Vulkan pass-through on a Linux host.
  • Search for the text "with QEMU/KVM and VirtIO-GPU Venus for Vulkan pass-through support" in the Release Builds section for exact instructions.
• Linux LTS Update
  • From 6.12 to 6.18.
  • The non-LTS Nobara kernel remains the default.
• GameImage
  • Create portable games.
  • Supports both Linux and Windows (via Wine) games.
• CDEmu
  • Accurately emulate CD/DVD drives.
  • Useful for older applications and games.
• SteamOS Dual-Boot Support
  • Instructions are now provided on how to dual-boot SteamOS 3.8 or newer with winesapOS on the same drive.

Project highlights:

• winesapOS is celebrating our 6-year anniversary today!
• winesapOS has joined as a founding member of the Open Gaming Collective (OGC).
  • linux-ogc and gamescope-ogc-git are now available in the winesapOS repository for Arch Linux distributions.
  • gamescope-ogc-git is installed by default.
• Since our last release...
  • Over 150 commits added.
  • Over 90 GitHub Issues addressed.
  • Only 3 GitHub Issues are left.
• We did a full audit of AUR packages used and found that none were compromised in June or July.

Upgrades:

• Before upgrading, please read the upgrade notes.
• Follow the upgrade guide for both minor and major updates.

Issues addressed since 4.5.0:

• None.

Known issues:

• None.

The full change log can be found here. All of the commits since our last release can be found here.