COSMIC Epoch 1 was released December 11th, 2025. Point releases include new features and bug fixes. On Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, updates are rolling and released as they pass Quality Assurance review. Other distributions tend to release tagged releases.
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.3
Release tagged for packaging 01/20/2026
- Translation updates to all projects
COSMIC Files
- Add open button to multiple preview
- Open multiple directories in separate tabs
- Handle hidden items during shift click
- Copy file times
COSMIC Notifications
- Clean up logging
- COSMIC Media Player
- Mute when thumbnailing
COSMIC Settings
- Fallback to saving network password in system if secret agent channel is closed
- Option to apply RON theme files via the CLI
COSMIC Terminal
- Properly load and clear passwords in memory when passwords page is toggled
- Fixes for nix flake
xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
- Do not abort portal backend if dma-buf support is missing
- Set pipewire data flags for memfd, potentially fixes issues with OBS screen cast
- Only save config when rectangle drag ends
All 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.3
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.4
Release tagged for packaging 01/27/2026
- Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects
Cosmic Applets
COSMIC Comp
- Fix visual artifacts in overview mode
- Fix Super+Click on a tiled window having unexpected behavior
COSMIC Edit
- Improve large file load time and memory usage, fixes crash when opening large files
COSMIC Files
- Do not list hidden files in path completion
- Improve copy and extract performance
COSMIC Greeter
- Improvements for fingerprint login
COSMIC Idle
- Use configurable system actions for suspend, to allow for alternatives to systemctl suspend
COSMIC Session
- Improved logic for setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK, fixes nixos ssh issue
COSMIC Settings
- Fail early if it is not possible to connect to secret service, fixes repeated failures
COSMIC Store
- Update appstream if more than one hour old, partially fixes outdated version numbers
- Wide set of performance improvements
All 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.4
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.5
Release tagged for packaging 02/03/2026
- Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects
COSMIC Applets
- Add option to show battery percentage
COSMIC App Library
- Update libcosmic, fixes crashes
COSMIC Edit
COSMIC Files
- Only show open button if something can be opened
- Tab drag and drop
COSMIC Launcher
COSMIC Session
- Update values of existing env vars
COSMIC Settings
- Fix rotation frequency of wallpaper slideshow resetting
- Improve network authentication reliability
- Fix features and add CI tests, improves portability
- Show a descriptive label instead of an empty dropdown if no default apps are available
- Ensure startup app delete dialog shows when triggered from search
- Support user-defined XKB layouts
COSMIC Store
- Performance improvements
- Support Ctrl+Q hotkey for exiting app
- Improve display of system and flatpak runtime updates
COSMIC Terminal
xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
- Add hotkeys Ctrl+C to copy to clipboard and Ctrl+S to copy to Pictures
All 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.5
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.6
Release tagged for packaging 02/10/2026
- Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects
COSMIC Applets
- status-area: Use separate socket-activated daemon for StatusNotifierWatcher, and other fixes
COSMIC Comp
- Update smithay to latest commit
- Improvements for damage tracking
- Expose wl_fixes protocol to clients
COSMIC Edit
COSMIC Files
- Fix enter key not extracting password-protected ZIP files
- Move to and copy to context menu items
- Support pasting images, videos, and text from clipboard
- Disable save button when filename is empty
- Fix display name for GVFS items
COSMIC Launcher
- Fix mime type icons not loading
COSMIC Notifications
- Support file:// URLs in app_icon field
COSMIC Media Player
- Play next file automatically
COSMIC Settings
- Reset input if shortcut replacement dialog is cancelled
COSMIC Terminal
- Configurable hotkeys
- Hide cursor when scrolled in unfocused terminal
xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
- Use fallback background from cosmic-wallpapers
All 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.6
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.7
Release tagged for packaging 02/17/2026
- The workspaces overview now supports an action on typing. This can be configured to open the launcher or app library in cosmic-settings Desktop -> Workspaces -> Workspaces overview -> Action on typing.
- Add pull request template to all projects
- COSMIC Edit, COSMIC Files, COSMIC Store, and COSMIC Terminal will now generate their desktop and metainfo files using Fluent, so they can be translated using weblate.
- Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects
COSMIC Applets
- Fix audio route changing when changing volume
- Focus COSMIC Settings when an applet requests it
COSMIC Comp
- Fix panic when full-screening windows
- Remove redundant configure in popup reposition request
- Fix panic from tiling placeholders not being cleaned up
- Update smithay to fix image-copy memory leak
- Fix cursor follows focus when traversing monitors
- Fix keyboard shortcuts for non-Latin layouts
COSMIC Files
- Respect Path desktop entry key
- Clear the type to select buffer when changing location
- Add Move to and Copy to to the Edit menu
- Update compio-driver, fixes musl compilation
- Add setting to toggle the Recents feature
COSMIC Settings
- Only consider active routes when setting volume and mute
- Show WPA3 networks
- Only display Install additional languages if gnome-language-selector is available
- Fix reset to default not showing up after importing theme in Appearance page
- Set the language via AccountsService when reordering languages
- Fix automatic theme switching after suspend or time change
COSMIC Settings Daemon
- Fix automatic theme switching after suspend or time change
COSMIC Store
- Cache explore results to disk for instant startup
COSMIC Terminal
All 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.7
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8
Release tagged for packaging 02/24/2026
- Translation updates and dependency updates for many projects
COSMIC Applets
- Lazy-load status notifier menu layouts to prevent D-bus timeouts - fixes VLC freezing
- Focus password input in Wi-Fi authentication dialog
COSMIC App Library
- Add standalone mode for local development
- Fix cargo vendor --locked
cosmic-bg
- Parallelize gradient generation
COSMIC Comp
- Fix window state preservation for maximized/snapped windows
- Update dependencies
- Update smithay
COSMIC Files
- Add option to copy path when pressing shift
- Gray out paste menu when clipboard is empty or location is not supported
- Show count of files for Apply to all
- Close context menus in various cases
- Remove unsupported context menu options in Recents
- Add Clear Recents history to Recents nav bar context menu
- Ellipsize text for long file names
- Disable wgpu feature in cosmic-files-applet. Reduces VRAM usage
COSMIC Player
- Unmute when changing volume
COSMIC Session
- Enable cutecosmic or qt6ct with QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME
COSMIC Settings
- Ensure disabled shortcuts are re-added after replacement
- Use jiff instead of chrono where possible. Corrects handling of polar days/nights
- Prevent duplicate custom wallpaper entries
COSMIC Settings Daemon
- Support Qt theme generation with qt5ct & qt6ct
COSMIC Store
- Do not auto refresh updates on nav - loads pages instantly after cache
- Update flathub stats to January 2026
COSMIC Terminal
- Add --working-directory argument - Enables “Open in terminal” button in GitHub Desktop
- Activate nearest tab only if closing focused tab
- Add Copy link to context menu
- COSMIC Light theme update - improves color contrast
- Increase menu width
COSMIC Workspaces
- Use ellipsis and update dependencies
All 1.0.7 to 1.0.8 changes can be seen here: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.8
Check the COSMIC roadmap for a list of planned features in future Epoch versions.
