The CachyOS Team has announced the May 2025 release of CachyOS, focusing on theming, compatibility, and improving the handheld edition. The first major change is the addition of a mechanism to the Live-ISO that automatically loads the correct NVIDIA module when booting. This resolves issues with older GPUs, such as 10xx NVIDIA or lower, due to the switch to the "open module". All new installations will automatically use a new boot animation that unifies the theming and design language. Existing installations can migrate to Firefox or other browsers with their profile.

Cachy-Browser has been deprecated, and users will receive a popup when starting it, providing a link to how to migrate to Firefox or other browsers with their profile. The Handheld Edition has been enhanced with several new features and improvements, including automatic detection during ISO boot, Plymouth animation, the deprecation of Cachy-Browser, and the integration of SteamOS-Manager.

CachyOS has issued a bugfix update for the prior version, resolving kernel issues and incorporating the OCCT tool for isolated stress testing environments. The update incorporates audio profiles for Ally X and Legion Go, along with a transition to the upstream Gamescope implementation to enhance the overall experience.

CachyOS has announced the launch of its March 2025 release, emphasizing enhanced hardware support. The update features the incorporation of a new bootloader, Limine, which is compatible with both BIOS and UEFI, along with direct Btrfs snapshot support.

The package "cachyos-samba-settings" is included to provide support for Samba. The GSP firmware for the closed-source kernel module has been reactivated, and the ASUS Armoury driver has been incorporated for fan and power management. The Wine package has been tailored to utilize "WoW64" for removing dependencies from lib32 libraries, with Wine and Wine-Staging set to default to NTSync rather than winesync. Support has been introduced for RDNA4, RTX 5070 Ti, and 5070. The latest kernel has eliminated the "crc32c-intel" module, which was previously preloaded by mkinitcpio when utilizing an Intel CPU. The package updates consist of linux-cachyos 6.14.0, NVIDIA 570.133.07, Gnome 48, Plasma 6.3.3, mesa 25.0.2, linux-api-headers 6.14.0, and linux-tools 6.14.0.