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title: 'Stargazer #3 - Aurora October update'

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# Stargazer #3 - Aurora October update

Hello stargazers,

Time for another Stargazer update as things are ramping up again after the chill summer season. Let's get right into it!

## Fedora 43 Beta is here

We have just pushed the first builds of Fedora 43 beta based builds.

This is a move to Fedora 43 and we will ship KDE Plasma 6.5 before it is considered stable by Fedora. This is possible by the awesome work of the [Fedora KDE SIG](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/kdesig/kde-final/)!
Additionally we are looking for testers of the `flatpak preinstall`-feature, more on that in the Bazaar section.

If you want to help test the new beta images, please rebase with the following command:

`sudo bootc switch --enforce-container-sigpolicy ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora:beta`


## Image deprecations

### HWE 

Just a last reminder that all of the HWE images (asus, surface etc) are going to be deprecated when F43 starts rolling. We have already moved them to a weekly schedule.

### Nvidia-legacy drivers

As we have previously communicated in a prior update post, images with the old proprietary Nvidia Drivers will no longer be built when Aurora 43 releases. If you have a Turing card (this means RTX 2000/GTX 16XX or newer) and are still on this image, please move to the nvidia-open images which feature the newer driver.

`sudo bootc switch --enforce-container-sigpolocy ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-nvidia-open:stable` or 
`sudo bootc switch --enforce-container-sigpolicy ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia-open:stable` if you have previosuly enabled developer mode.

# Bazaar changes
We will also change how Bazaar is deployed. Currently Bazaar is an RPM bolted to the image.

renner has done some work and we now have a way to do Bazaar as a flatpak. We will be testing this method with the `beta` images.
You can check the merged PR [here](https://github.com/ublue-os/aurora/pull/1076).

Bazaar will then receive updates more frequently as it is now decoupled from the image.

This needs a [not-yet-released feature for Flatpak(https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/6116)], hence we will not yet be providing this method to the normal images. So it will be tested on `beta` and if the flatpak team does a release that aligns with F43 release, we might change to the flatpak with the F43 release.

As a headsup so you can prepare, we will remove Discover and the workarounds we put in place with the Fedora 44 Release next spring. Bazaar will become the only option to install applications on Aurora going forward.

# Known issues
Currently known issues for F43 betas:
- AMD Series 7040 series might not boot correctly (atleast FW13 AMD 7040 laptops are having this issue (propably also others with this chipset))
    - fix: you need to remove `rhgb` kernel parameter to get succesfull boot (you can do `rpm-ostree kargs --delete=rhgb`)