liken 2026.08.18-001

Catalog it

Add this entry to your cluster's spec.releases.catalog, then set spec.version to the same version. The digest is the sha256 of the release document's exact bytes, and the document gives the digest of every artifact below.

  - version: 2026.08.18-001
    digest: sha256:efcc3a7fd8ce0881e57331abc230832428f649fcd7beb87dbf97f3640232c223

The upgrade guide gives the rest of the steps. See release 2026.08.18-001 on GitHub.

What changed

Changes since v2026.08.12-003:

- Bump the brand theme and set params.repository for its new nav
- Deduplicate the comment rules in AGENTS.md against voice.md
- Adopt the brand repository as theme, module, and voice rules
- Merge pull request #2 from thc1006/bump-insomniacslk-dhcp-583
- Complete milestones 56 through 59 and resolve their open questions
- Correct plan 59 on what an unplugged monitor takes
- Amend plan 59 with the udev-free sink declaration
- Drain claim holders before the DRA drivers that serve them
- Correct the Bluetooth operator's privilege statement
- Record the bonds-to-adapter affinity gap as an open question
- Record the two-taint rule and the kernel-side hotplug in the plans
- Record the image minimalism intent in the device-operator pattern
- Decouple slice retraction from operator shutdown in the pattern
- Pin the stricter taint rule into the Bluetooth operator plan
- Publish the audio controller exclusively
- Plan the audio operator as milestone 59
- Plan device operators as milestones 56 through 58
- Stop the delivery walk at bluetooth and publish the idle adapter
- Plan kernel module parameters as milestone 55
- Split graphics publishing and share what the kernel multiplexes
- Add liken request-reboot for a reboot with nothing to apply
- go.mod: bump insomniacslk/dhcp past the nclient4 ReadFrom panic fix

Artifacts

release.yaml is the document that lists them. LICENSES.md carries the third-party notices, and the source mirror serves the corresponding source for the components that require it.

What is inside