Omarchy v4.5.0 RC3 has been released! 🎉 Just a few more fixes before final release and the first release including the new Apple Silicon installer for M1, M2, M3, and Neo.

I've had this M3 Max sitting on my desk just waiting for this installer to reach a solid testing state. It's really incredible how easy it can be to install directly on Apple Silicon now due to the great work of the team!

I've never been more excited to hit merge on a PR than I was for this one. 🎉 It took 15 people on five continents to get here. @jondkinney kept a branch alive for almost a year. @tiredkebab's fork pushed the idea further. Then came a lot of long conversations with @maralcbr and @bi9kahuna to get it over the line. Major props to the rest of the Omarchy M team who helped in various ways as well: @martiano @riverleaf88 @buildwithdjdev @RyanTheTide @Acelogic_ @LiamRay1O @ewninjaofficial @jaidipsubedi @JoshuaSWarren @shawnyeager @novuon_ai @SiliconForested Thank you all. This one's special, and lays important groundwork.

I've been working this way with my team like this in Slack for some time but this looks so much nicer when you just drop Slack altogether. Looks like Sheldon is getting yet-another-new-home this weekend.🦞

Exciting update from the fine folks at @Zoom who have given us a very nice update on Linux including dark mode! Any Omarchy zoomers (or boomers, or genxers, or millenials, et al.) should give it a try!

Great to welcome @OrcaRouter as a Distinguished Patron with a $150,000 donation to the Strategic Token Reserves for Omarchy! We're going to put their new OrcaCyber Zero 1.0 model to great use with our security and kernel work 🤘

Sweet mother of acceleration: the latest turbocharging of Omarchy in the lab has now broken the insane 10 second mark!!! And before you ask, the pursuit of excellence requires no justification! We will keep pushing until stopped by the laws of physics.

🔥Omarchy Mac Users 🔥 The original maintainer didn’t want AI-generated contributions. Fair enough—we respected that boundary, forked the project, and got to work. The result after roughly 21 hours: • 29 PRs merged across two repos • 115 new commits beyond the inherited baseline • 7 PR authors contributing in parallel We now have working Apple Video Decoder acceleration for H.264, HEVC and VP9 on M-series Macs running Asahi/Omarchy, plus opt-in H.264 High 10. The work includes: • Chrome’s solid-green-video bug fixed • 10-bit HEVC blank-frame bug fixed • HEVC tile and wavefront hangs fixed • H.264 multi-slice firmware hangs fixed • VP9 state, color-range and submission handling fixed • Decoder lifecycle races and cross-context reference aliasing fixed • Multiple memory-safety, error-handling and malformed-stream bugs fixed • 15 AVD kernel patches • Automatic installation, recovery and kernel-update rebuilding • Sanitizer CI, guarded hardware testing and reproducible conformance infrastructure On real M1 hardware we’re currently bit-exact on: • HEVC: 144/147 streams • AVC: 73/135 • VP9: 216/305 • 864 additional generated hardware-frame comparisons Huge credit to the contributors: davefano, grudev, laihenyi, stefanakerwall, thebytorsnowdog and service-cyber—as well as the upstream and carried work from megi, sofus13, Igor Ryzhkov, Ante042, Aaron/aquarat and the Asahi Linux contributors. This is what agent-native open-source development can look like: humans set direction and validate reality; agents attack a shared roadmap in parallel; every claim is tied to tests and hardware evidence. We didn’t argue about whether AI belongs in open source. We forked it and demonstrated what it can do.